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Life at Louisiana’s Toxic Sinkhole: An Eco-Disaster Continues With No End in Sight
A year after a toxic sinkhole caused by one of Texas Brine's salt caverns either drove neighborhood homeowners in Louisiana out of their houses or left them with ongoing …
Noam Chomsky: “Bradley Manning Should Be Regarded as a Hero”
Laura Flanders interviews Noam Chomsky about Manning, the TransPacific Partnership and the wisdom of the indigenous.
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Economic Policy Debates: Theater of Distraction
Richard Wolff: The debates proceed as if official policies were key to ending crises.
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How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – and What to Do About It
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.
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Time to Send the Crony Banksters to Jail
This morning, in one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S. history, a federal grand jury indicted SAC Capital Advisors, a major hedge fund worth $15 billion dollars, …
Mismeasuring Our Economy: Why the GDP is Not Useful
The GDP is the most commonly cited economic metric but it doesn't tell us what we need to know.
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Death by Corporation, Part II: Companies as Cancer Cells
Many corporations work like tumor cells for the relentless destruction of the environment.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.
Bay Area Service Workers Up in Arms
Twelve AT&T Park concession workers were arrested in an act of civil disobedience on June 18.
Will Marijuana Farming in Mendocino County, California, Lead America to Pot?
Truthout interviews Doug Fine about the issues covered in his book ‘Too High to Fail.’