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Death of US-Backed Ex-Dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier Won’t End Haitian Victims’ Quest for Justice
The former US-backed dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as “Baby Doc,” has died at 63.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Global Inequality Keeps Getting Worse, and More
In today's On the News segment: Global inequality just keeps getting worse, and more.
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The Late Triumph of the Bush-Bin Laden Dance
Osama Bin Laden explicitly described his terror tactics as drawing the US, and the West generally, into an endless war.
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Bangladeshi Workers Organize to Protect Their Most Valuable Export: Themselves
Migrant domestic workers from Bangladesh enjoy little protection from their government, but they're not alone.
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Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.9 Percent in September, as Economy Adds 248,000 Jobs
There has been no acceleration in wage growth even as the unemployment rate has fallen.
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Public Infrastructure, Private Investment? Whose Hands Are in Whose Pockets?
In reading the US Treasury Department's glowing new report on public-private partnerships, truth must be separeted from fiction.
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We’re All in This Together
Labor organizers are increasingly enlisting consumers in campaigns to improve conditions for low-wage workers.
A Change in the Climate: The Climate Movement Steps Up
Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn't too early to say it: the People's Climate March changed the social map.
As US-Afghanistan Sign Troop Deal, CIA-Backed Warlord Behind Massacre of 2,000 POWs Sworn-In as VP
Afghanistan's new vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum is one of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords, once described by Ghani himself as a “known killer.”
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Conflict Keeps Mothers From Health Care Services
Increasing levels of violence across India are taking their toll on women and cutting off access to crucial reproductive health services.