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In Landmark Ruling, US Ordered to Release Memo Behind Targeted Killings of US Citizens
In a major development chipping away at the secrecy of the Obama administration's drone wars, a federal appeals court has ordered the government to release a legal memo that …
Why the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement is Helping Derail Obama’s Trade Agenda
As President Obama departs on his long-delayed trip to Asia, his job-killing trade agenda is being blocked by “fast track” bills that ironically were supposed to railroad trade agreements …
Economic Update: Culture and Economics
Updates on public power in Nebraska; Earth Day; Coca Cola's misleading advertisement; closing hospitals; and more.
Greek Politics Four Years After the Financial Crisis
Leo Panitch on the left Coalition: Syriza and the struggle against austerity.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Block the Paycheck Fairness Act, and More
Earlier this month, Senate Republicans unanimously blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act and upheld a boss's right to punish workers for talking about unfair pay practices, and more.
Bill Moyers: Government Is Now a Protection Racket for the 1%
Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in His Own Words on Writing “100 Years of Solitude”
Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away Thursday in Mexico at the age of 87.
Truthout Interviews John Logan on the Antiunion Campaign in Tennessee
The battle by the GOP and its wealthy donors to keep middle and working class individuals poorly paid and without workplace rights continues.
Paul Krugman: What the 1% Don’t Want You to Know
Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy - the very system our founders revolted against.
The Underground Railroad Was One of America’s First Co-Ops: A Black History Tour of Cooperative Economics
From slavery to Jim Crow to cities today, African-Americans have been leading the cooperative movement.