Truthout
Health
Of Patients and Prices
On the threshold of entering medical practice, A.W. Gaffney contemplates becoming unavoidably entangled in the health care business and its inevitable conflicts - as currently financed - with best …
Beyond the Minimum Wage: Interview With Jobs With Justice’s Sarita Gupta
How do we use the enthusiasm around raising the minimum wage to promote a more robust vision of economic democracy.
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How “Extreme Levels” of Monsanto’s Herbicide Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in GMO plants, even after nearly …
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The Legacy That We Are Leaving: The Extinction of Species
There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …
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The Joy and Resolve of a Movement Built on Creative Resistance
Art has added vitality and energy to advocacy; and it reaches people at deeper emotional levels and in their hearts conveying what cannot be said with mere facts.
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The People’s Hearing? Why It Matters to All of Us
A war has been waged upon the veterans coming home attempting to get healthcare, and Iraqi civilians are searching for how to heal their children and cancers in a …
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Is Rick Scott Guilty of Murder?
Republicans say that they're pro-life, but that's a bald-faced lie, because they refuse to let low-wage working Americans have access to life-saving Medicaid.
NASA Climate Predictions Show Serious Threat to Humanity
Dahr Jamail says that though some journalists avoid linking weather patterns to climate change, global warming still exists.
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The Disastrous Labor and Social Reforms in Spain
What we are seeing in Spain is a dream for conservative forces (large employers and banking) that have been the dominant forces over the Spanish state.
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What Stand for Socialists on Events in Crimea and Ukraine?
To fully understand events and elaborate a guide to action in the face of escalating NATO threats, more detail and nuance is required in our analysis.