Truthout
Human Rights
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For-Profit Pipeline Company Claims “Public Benefit” in Seizing Private Lands in Pennsylvania
New and protracted battles in the fracking war are breaking out near the Marcellus Shale over pipeline companies' use of eminent domain.
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“Equal Pay” Is Not So Equal
The gender pay gap is no myth.
Iraqi Woman Uses Chilcot Report in War Crimes Lawsuit Against George W. Bush
The Chilcot Report leaves little doubt that Team Bush-Cheney committed an illegal crime of aggression against Iraq.
Why Is the US Aligned With Saudi Arabia?
There's more to the US-Saudi cozy relationship than just a common interest in oil, says Medea Benjamin in her new book.
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Tainted Water Imperils Health, Traditions for Montana Tribe
For Native American tribes, water more than sustains — it is a blessed, living thing to be revered and protected.
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Burkini Ban
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Voter ID Laws: Why Black Democrats’ Fight for the Ballot in Mississippi Still Matters
This fall, we are faced with the question of who will become president. And equally important — who can vote?
Where Movements Meet: Black Lives Matter Organizers Visit #NoDAPL
“I believe we must step beyond solidarity, and that Black and Brown power will get us free.”
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Released Teen Vows to Keep Fighting to Free Friends Inside US Immigration Detention Camp
Los muros me cayeron encima — “I felt the walls cave in on me.”
Trump’s Immigration Plan Punishes Women Most
Women now make up more than half of the immigrant population, and 100 immigrant women arrive in the United States for every 96 men.