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Activists Challenge African “Land Grab”
The World Bank and Wall Street firms targeted for African land deals displacing hundreds of thousands.
Prison Industries: “Don’t Let Society Improve or We Lose Business”
Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world.
Disabled People Protest to Preserve Their Benefits
Joann Cross didn't travel from El Paso, Texas, to Washington, DC, to get arrested. In fact, she's always believed that getting arrested was the wrong way to make a …
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Brazilian Mining Giant under Fire for Deaths, Environmental Damage
Rio de Janeiro - Social movements from several countries accused Brazil's Vale, the world's second largest mining company, of causing serious environmental and social damage, as well as the …
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US Sets New Sanctions Against Technology for Syria and Iran
President Barack Obama embraces Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, April 23, 2012. Obama announced Monday a plan to impose sanctions against foreign …
More Than One Third of All US Executions Took Place in Texas
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the …
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Latina Leaders of Texas Colonias Help Remake Shantytowns Into Empowered Communities
Lupita Sanchez, coordinator for community action services at Proyecto Juan Diego, helps Cameron Park colonia residents become empowered through getting out the vote. (Photo by Mark Karlin.)This is the …
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Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. An Afghan boy waits as his father receives medical care at a cooperative medical engagement site near …
Rich Countries Seek to Block UN From Working on Global Finance Reforms
An important fight between rich countries and developing countries over the question of UN involvement in researching and advocating for a new global financial architecture has spilled into the …
What the Laws of War Allow: Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes – or the Poverty of International Law?
Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war — that corpus of regulations developed painstakingly over centuries by …