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Protest by Suicide Highlights Economic and Political Oppression in Tunisia
Mass spontaneous demonstrations erupted on December 17 in the city of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia when 26-year-old Mohammad Bouazizi doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire …
Lucasville Five Hunger Strike Begins: An Interview with Author Staughton Lynd
In 1993, the maximum security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio was the site of a historic prisoner rebellion, where more than 400 prisoners seized and controlled a …
Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock
While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – …
Wendell Potter: The Health Care Spin Continues
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews had a good laugh during a recent segment about the five biggest political lies of 2010. PolitiFact gave the top prize to Republicans and pundits who …
Top Ten Ways the Right Will Wreck the Recovery
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's …
Always Someone’s Mother or Father, Always Someone’s Child: The Missing Persons of Iraq
According to UN data, Iraq has the most disappeared persons in the world. Editor's Note: The following is an adaptation of a presentation Dirk Adriaensens gave at …
Solutions: Making Government Work
Truthout's “Solutions: Making Government Work” editor and long-time researcher, author and government watchdog Dina Rasor. Click to visit the “Solutions: Making Government Work” archive. The Solutions …
Where the Cancun Climate Conference Leaves Us
There is no reliable scientific assessment on just where we are vis-à-vis global climate destabilization. We can do better by acting on clear trends and options. Climate computer models …
An Open Letter to the Left Establishment
Editor's Note: We have received this text from its original authors; many of us have signed on as individuals; we share it now with you, our readers. www.ProtestObama.org A …
WikiLeaks Tracker
Welcome to the WikiLeaks Tracker. Here we'll document the latest developments regarding WikiLeaks: the intricacies of little-noticed cables, the large-scale efforts to suppress the leaks, the response of the …