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Healthcare.gov Debacle: Spare Some Blame for Bush and Clinton
Reinventing government by gutting it doesnu2019t appear to have lived up to its promise.
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Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
In a return to Jim Crow vote suppression tactics, Judge Richard Posner's Voter ID law has kept 72,000 black voters from the polls.
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For Transgender Patients, a Growing Fight Over Health Coverage
Trans Americans living in the grey area of bureaucracy are unable to get the coverage they need as healthcare coverage shifts across the country.
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Seven Horrifying Things About the Chicken You Eat
Many people eat only chicken to avoid the health and environmental questions surrounding red meat. Yet the track record of US chicken may be worse.
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The End of Impunity? Indigenous Guatemalans Bring Canadian Mining Company to Court
For the first time, a Canadian mining company will appear in a Canadian court for actions committed overseas.
WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of American Empire
A Chelsea Manning-leaked cable showed how Iceland asked the US to stop European ‘bullying,’ just the first of a deluge of revelations detailing how America throws around its weight.
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Acting With Impunity: The Case of General Electric
Can the world's biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric, the answer appears to be “yes.”
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Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services
The government shutdown was not to blame for the crashing of the food stamp program for poor families in several states over the weekend, just the latest in a …
Empire Under Obama: Barack Obama’s Global Terror Campaign
America is waging a global terror campaign through the use of drones, killing thousands of people, committing endless war crimes, creating fear and terror in a program expected to …
The Mainstream Corporate Media and the US Government Shill for Toxic Monsanto
Truthout talks with author Belen Fernandez about Monsanto, the corporate mainstream media under-reporting stories such as the suicide epidemic in India and buffoonish commentary on GMOs by the likes …