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Occupy the Corporation | Would You Blow the Whistle? | EPA
Friday, 23 December 2011, 10:40 am | truthout.org
Richard D. Wolff | Occupy the Corporation Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "Imagine a democratic alternative to police evictions of Occupy encampments across America's cities and towns. What if the decision to evict or not had been made by referendum? ... More >>
US Soldiers | Busted at Occupy | Fukushima | Long Revolution
Thursday, 22 December 2011, 11:15 am | truthout.org
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Iraq war isn't over. For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it never will be. Some of these men and women will turn to alcohol and drugs to ease their mental injuries; some will end up homeless, ... More >>
Truthout: 20 December 2011
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 11:51 am | truthout.org
The Occupy Wall Street protests refuse a notion of society that embraces a definition of agency in which people are viewed only as commodities, bound together in a Darwinian nightmare that celebrates the logic of greed, unchecked individualism and a disdain ... More >>
The Trial of Bradley Manning and More
Monday, 19 December 2011, 9:57 am | truthout.org
Ann Wright, War Is A Crime: "Bradley Manning has been imprisoned for 19 months, since May, 2010, without a trial ... Manning was charged with transferring classified information onto his personal computer and communicating national defense information to an unauthorized ... More >>
Capitalism Is the Enemy of Democracy
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 12:26 pm | truthout.org
David Kristjanson-Gural, Truthout: "Excluding people from having a say over what happens to the wealth we create is the first and the most fundamental way that any capitalist system undermines democracy. We are fundamentally disenfranchised in the ... More >>
Under Pressure, USDA Works to Speed Monsanto Approval
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 11:57 am | truthout.org
EXCLUSIVE: Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed Approval of Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Crops Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating ... More >>
Short Tales From Bizarro World: The GOP Primaries Edition
Monday, 12 December 2011, 11:21 am | truthout.org
William Rivers Pitt | Short Tales From Bizarro World: The GOP Primaries Edition William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Speaking of Rock & Roll Mitt, Derpy Rick, Hopeless Herman and Manic Michele, let us all bow our heads in a moment of thanks to the Republican ... More >>
Occupy Our Homes
Thursday, 8 December 2011, 10:54 am | truthout.org
Occupy Our Homes J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "Yesterday, no one had lived in 702 Vermont Street for three years.... the Brooklyn neighborhood where foreclosures are five times more frequent than in the rest of the state. Today, Alfredo and Tasha ... More >>
Noam Chomsky: Marching Off the Cliff
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 2:25 pm | truthout.org
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "It's no secret that the US government is lagging on climate issues.... To gain perspective on what's happening in the world, it's sometimes useful to adopt the stance of intelligent extraterrestrial observers viewing the strange ... More >>
Social Movements vs. "Social Movements": Occupy vs Tea Party
Monday, 5 December 2011, 12:13 pm | truthout.org
Social Movements vs. "Social Movements": Comparing Occupy and the Tea Party Scott Borchert, Truthout: "There are some very small similarities between Occupy and the Tea Party. Whereas Tea Partiers share a very general (albeit misdirected) ... More >>
Truthout: November 28, 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 12:22 pm | truthout.org
A matrix of closely tied university-based strategic studies ventures, the so-called Grand Strategy Programs (GSP), have cropped up on a number of elite campuses around the country, where they function to serve the national security warfare state. More >>
Truthout: November 22, 2011
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 3:00 pm | truthout.org
Memo to the police and the surveillance state you represent: you are not working in the dark anymore. You may have your own system of surveillance, but We The People are watching you just as closely, and we have our own system of surveillance. More >>
Truthout - Tuesday 15 November 2011
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 12:32 pm | truthout.org
Chris Hedges | This Is What Revolution Looks Like Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They ... More >>
BREAKING: This Morning in New York City...
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 9:54 am | truthout.org
Last night, I watched lower Manhattan turn into a militarized lockdown. The park known as Liberty Square was apparently cleared by force, though I arrived 20 minutes after the police barricades encircled a two-block radius, kicked out all media and ... More >>
Truthout: 11 November 2011
Monday, 14 November 2011, 5:01 pm | truthout.org
The State Department announced yesterday that the review process for the Keystone XL pipeline would be extended until after the 2012 election. The announcement came just four days after thousands of protesters peacefully surrounded the White House ... More >>
Truthout: 12 November 2011
Monday, 14 November 2011, 9:45 am | truthout.org
As lawmakers on Congress’ deficit reduction super committee look for places to cut the federal budget ahead of their upcoming deadline, they may want to look at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The facility is 'arguably the most expensive ... More >>
Ten Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything
Monday, 14 November 2011, 9:39 am | truthout.org
Before the Occupy Wall Street movement, there was little discussion of the outsized power of Wall Street and the diminishing fortunes of the middle class. The media blackout was especially remarkable given that issues like jobs and corporate influence ... More >>
Truthout: November 9, 2011
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 5:33 pm | truthout.org
"Ohio's labor movement is celebrating today after voters dealt a hefty blow to Republican Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday by overwhelmingly voting to repeal an anti-collective bargaining law he championed during the past year. Ohioans voted to repeal Senate ... More >>
Greg Palast Tracks the Vultures of the 1 Percent - Interview
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 5:25 pm | truthout.org
Near the front of his new book, "Vultures' Picnic," Greg Palast quotes BuzzFlash at Truthout as calling him "a cross between Seymour Hersh and Jack Kerouac." He also quotes a White House spokesman as saying about him, "We hate that sonovabitch." More >>
Truthout: 28 October 2011
Thursday, 3 November 2011, 3:42 pm | truthout.org
After the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in American elections, the decision's defenders claimed this wasn't such a big deal because unions could also take advantage of the decision. More >>
