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The Climate Movement Takes On Fracking: Interview With Bill McKibben
An oil rig reflected in a fracking pond on the Giddings Estate, a 10,000-acre field in near Midland, Texas, owned by Pioneer Natural Resources, February 15, 2012. (Photo: Jim …
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Frackers Outbid Farmers for Water in Colorado Drought
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. Sections of drilling pipe and a drilling rig on a six-well pad in the Piceance Basin of …
The War on Public-Sector Workers
Politicians across the country are using heaping doses of the politics of envy to try to arouse the anger of workers. However, their targets are not the corporate CEOs …
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40 Years on, 1960s Black Radical Still Suffers Racial and Political InjusticeÂ
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)The consequences of America's racist history still linger deep into the present. No one understands this better than Gary Freeman, a 1960s black civil rights …
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Patients Rarely Considered in Press Coverage of Medicare
For the elderly and disabled, catching up on the daily news during the latest Beltway brinkmanship—the deal to extend payroll tax cuts, unemployment benefits and current Medicare doctor fees—could …
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White House to Delay Implementation of Key Anti-Discrimination Order
President Barack Obama while speaking during a news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House, in Washington, April 11, 2012. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The …
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Politics and Happiness, in Perfect Mutual Attraction
Translated by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Bill Scoble. The atmosphere was festive, and combativity was in full force. 70,000 persons had come, yesterday [1], to the Place du …
Second-Degree Murder Charge May Be Hard to Prove in Trayvon Martin Case
Miami - Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey likely has an uphill climb to prove that George Zimmerman acted with the malicious intent required to convict him of second-degree murder …