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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.
Turkey Joins the War Campaign Against the Islamic State
Scholar Edmund Ghareeb explains how the authorization for military force against Islamic State by the Turkish parliament will affect peace negotiations with the Kurds.
Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to Be Fighting
Author Jeremy Scahill talks about how the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 helped create the threat now posed by the Islamic State.
Iraq Veterans Against the War: Decade-Old Group Grapples With New War, PTSD Epidemic, VA Failures
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Iraq Veterans Against the War members say it is a bittersweet moment as the US has resumed bombing in Iraq.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the US, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the first case of Ebola in the US, and more.
Truthout Interviews Featuring James Kilgore on Reversing Mass Incarceration in the US
Ted Asregadoo talks to author and research scholar at the University of Illinois' Center for African Studies James Kilgore.
What’s Driving Hong Kong’s Uprisings?
Hong Kong-based Attorney Robert Lee talks about the economic and political history at the center of ongoing protests.
What’s Behind the Ebola Crises and Are US Americans at Risk?
In an interview with TeleSUR's The Global African, Johns Hopkins Infectious Disease Program co-director Taha E. Taha discusses the roots of the Ebola crisis and what can be done …
Phil Donahue: Whistle-Blowers, Dissenters and Progressives Are the Patriots
Phil Donahue says we are a nation of laws, until we are scared.