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Fighting Fire in Haiti
When police and the landowner commanded Michelène Pierre to vacate her tent on a Sunday afternoon so that they could light it on fire, she responded: "If you want …
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Nature of Self-Defeating Convictions
One of the curious realities of modern America is how many people – especially white males – have been propagandized into siding with a “free-market” power structure that treats …
Missouri Legislator: Qualified to Legislate Women’s Health Because “My Father Was a Veterinarian”
In Illinois, they run reproductive rights bills through the agriculture committee. In Missouri, they call male lawmakers experts because they are the sons of veterinarians. Not a joke. Via …
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In Hiding, Bin Laden Had Four Children and Five Houses
Islamabad, Pakistan - Osama bin Laden spent nine years on the run in Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, during which time he moved among five safe houses and …
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The Corporate Media Crisis: Everything Old Is New Again
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)These days, there's one political point on which one can usually get consensus: Mainstream journalists are failing. In common parlance, most everyone "hates the media." …
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Good Ol’ American Journalism!
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The Savage Arithmetic of the Pre-Existing Condition
When doctors found precancerous cysts, Nancy Platt chose to have her pancreas removed. Her daughter, Laura Train, and husband, Sam, were by her side at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, …
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“Where Have We Been All This Time?“
Translated Thursday 22 March 2012, by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Isabelle Métral Jean-Luc Mélenchon addresses the crowd assembled in the Place de la Bastille, at 5 pm Sunday …
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Texas Prosecutors Go Rogue – And Get Away with It!
John Thompson spent 18 years in prison — 14 of them on death row — for crimes he did not commit. But as he was facing his seventh execution …
The Dangerous Road of Wishful Thinking
Bill Moyers counsels President Obama not to look at America through the rose-colored glasses of people — like Robert Kagan — led by political opportunity and wishful thinking, but …