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Alabama Passes “Fetal Pain” Anti-Abortion Bill, Rejects Exceptions For Rape and Incest
The Alabama GOP marked a successful week in regressive legislation. Gov. Robert Bentley (R) signed the nation’s toughest immigration bill into law yesterday, requiring local police to detain suspected …
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On War and Peace, the Senate Starts to Move
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Virginia) listens to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speak during a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 12, 2007. (Photo: Doug …
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What Food Crisis? Measuring Global Hunger
Last week, Oxfam launched its new international campaign, GROW, to fight food insecurity. The advocacy organization's campaign materials cite many of the statistics with which the post-food-crisis world has …
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Truthout Authors on Vocalo Radio
(Photo: Flowizm / Flickr) Junior Walk on Protecting Coal River Mountain Secret Surveillance: Truthout and the ACLU on What the Government Knows, or Wants to …
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A Really Scary Story for Stephen King
I've been participating in an email discussion group that's tackling urgent issues like population, climate change, and peak oil. There's one particularly curmudgeonly member who persistently protests the doom …
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Are We in the Process of Creating a New and Enduring American Underclass?
Corporate America appears to be prospering with far fewer workers than it employed before the crash. Wages are down, the stock market is up and firms are expanding their …
Past Trade Agreements Have Cut Jobs, Wages and Democracy
President Barack Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea, after a joint press conference during the G20 summit in Seoul, South Korea, on November 11, 2010. As Obama …
Did The Cable Industry Pay Ralph Reed Millions of Dollars to Orchestrate Tea Party Opposition to Net Neutrality?
As the New York Times and ThinkProgress have reported, Ralph Reed has returned as a force in the political world. A decade ago, Reed was a kingmaker in Republican politics and a corporate lobbyist who …
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Wisconsin State Election Board Failed to Review Minutes From Waukesha County “Recount” Before Certifying Supreme Court Election Results
Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (GAB), the state's top election agency, officially certified [PDF] the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme Court …
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“Death Squads” Target Salvadoran Journalists
Death threats targeting journalists were distressingly common during the tumultuous Salvadoran Civil War that took place in the late seventies and eighties. Over the course of the war, a …