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Truthout: 14 February 2012
Friday, 17 February 2012, 4:34 pm | truthout.org
The Right-Wing Id Unzipped: Who are these people and what motivates them? To answer, one must leave the field of conventional political theory and enter the realm of psychopathology.... There are tens of millions of Americans who, although personally ... More >>
Truthout: 12 February 2012
Friday, 17 February 2012, 4:31 pm | truthout.org
Among the people who saw this crisis coming was the conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, the supply-side champion who wrote the manifesto for the Reagan Revolution.... Yet for all those credentials, he is today an outcast from the very conservative ... More >>
The Right-Wing Id Unzipped | Women, Enforced Illiteracy
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 10:32 am | truthout.org
Mike Lofgren | The Right-Wing Id Unzipped Mike Lofgren, Truthout: "Right-wingers have occasioned much recent comment... Who are these people and what motivates them? To answer, one must leave the field of conventional political theory and enter the ... More >>
Truthout: 9 February 2012
Friday, 10 February 2012, 5:50 pm | truthout.org
The practice is called 'pinkwashing.' Some marketers might say it's just the cost of taking corporate money for charitable work, but advocates say it is never worth losing their ability to hold corporations accountable for women's health. More >>
Truthout: 7 February 2012
Friday, 10 February 2012, 5:23 pm | truthout.org
Washington's political class is apparently counting on the short memory of the electorate: it is barely a month and a half since we withdrew the last combat forces from Iraq, and already we have incessant agitation over Iran. More >>
Truthout: Frothing, Insatiable Maw of the War Machine
Thursday, 9 February 2012, 12:58 pm | truthout.org
This rhetorical escalation against Iran is being reported as a “bipartisan consensus” to keep “all options on the table.” But that doesn’t mean it is anything but a ruse to pull us into another military conflict in the Middle East. The language ... More >>
US General Told Israel That US Won't Join War on Iran
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 4:28 pm | truthout.org
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dempsey Told Israel That US Won't Join Their War on Iran Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not ... More >>
Truthout: 1 February 2012
Thursday, 2 February 2012, 5:38 pm | truthout.org
Most Americans don't realize that the idea that 'corporations are people' and 'money is speech' are concepts that were never, ever considered or promoted or even passed by any legislature in the history of America. Jeff Clements, a former assistant attorney ... More >>
Truthout - 31 January 201
Thursday, 2 February 2012, 5:28 pm | truthout.org
These financial disparities are only part of what Chicago is known for; the Windy City is also the adopted home of the first African-American president, Barack Obama, and where he will be returning to run his re-election campaign for 2012. More >>
Occupying Hawaii: Paradise Lost and Found
Monday, 30 January 2012, 1:28 pm | truthout.org
Occupying Hawaii: Paradise Lost and Found Michelle Fawcett, Truthout: "Ever since the Garden of Eden headlined the Torah, savvy marketers have realized that we all deeply desire a slice of paradise.... The natural splendor of Hawaii draws ... More >>
Truthout - 26 January 2012
Friday, 27 January 2012, 5:23 pm | truthout.org
As the Obama administration announces the launch of its Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future ... a scientific integrity complaint alleges that officials 'manipulated' scientific data about the effects of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak. More >>
Truthout - 24 January 2012
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 6:08 pm | truthout.org
What this illustrates is that drug companies can create entire cultures of over-prescribers for untested, even fatal indications, and that doctors can be easily corrupted. In light of a flurry of recent federal settlements for off-label marketing crimes, it ... More >>
Truthout - 23 January 2012
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 5:44 pm | truthout.org
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick-Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on 'Jersey Shore.' The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt | John Pilger | Perry Drops Out
Friday, 20 January 2012, 10:58 am | truthout.org
William Rivers Pitt | Lynching the Dream William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "It is what it is, as someone once said. You look for a toehold, a place to grab on to, a front - no matter how meager - from which to wage your own siege, against all that ... More >>
Truthout: 17 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 4:34 pm | truthout.org
Have you ever filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and received a written response from the agency stating that it could not locate records responsive to your request? If so, there's a chance the FBI may have found some documents, ... More >>
Truthout: 16 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 4:29 pm | truthout.org
Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint ... on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the ... ... More >>
Bill Moyers: Back With a New Series
Thursday, 12 January 2012, 11:50 am | truthout.org
Bill Moyers, Truthout: "The lack of civility and common sense that has paralyzed our democracy, the vast economic and social inequality that sends both left and right raging into the streets, the corrosive influence of money in politics - we're in ... More >>
Truthout: 8 January 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 11:58 am | truthout.org
Suppose I were to tell you that for the past two years the federal government has been spending nearly $1.5 million to create one job.... The trillion dollar question is this: where is it all going, when the annual average wage is no higher than $50,000? More >>
Austerity and the Modern Banker
Tuesday, 3 January 2012, 12:34 pm | truthout.org
Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate: "The rationale - or perhaps we should call it ideology - behind supporting big banks is that they are needed for the economy to recover. But this position looks increasingly doubtful when the banks are sitting ... More >>
Republicans Try to Impose Selfishness on American People
Friday, 30 December 2011, 1:11 pm | truthout.org
Wednesday 28 December 2011 Republicans Try to Impose Selfishness on American People Leo Gerard, Campaign for America's Future: "Republicans … describe beloved American programs like Medicare and Social Security as charities - using the euphemism ... More >>
