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Truthout: October 23, 2011
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 2:32 pm | truthout.org
Jorge Rivas, Colorlines: "The 99 percent movement that’s swept the country has reached Albuquerque, New Mexico. But organizers there have decided to alter the 'Occupy' name out of respect for area’s indigenous communities, which have been forcibly ... More >>
Obama: All US Troops Out of Iraq by End of Year
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 12:23 pm | truthout.org
Friday 21 October 2011 Obama: All US Troops Out of Iraq by End of Year Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "President Obama announced today that all US troops in Iraq would be withdrawn by the end of the year. The final drawdown will leave behind thousands ... More >>
After the Storm: The Instability of Inequality
Sunday, 16 October 2011, 1:32 pm | truthout.org
Saturday 15 October 2011 After the Storm: The Instability of Inequality Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate: "This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real ... More >>
Truthout: 7 October 2011
Monday, 10 October 2011, 4:34 pm | truthout.org
Jeju Island is once again threatened by joint U.S.-South Korean militarization and violence: the construction of a naval base on what many consider to be Jeju's most beautiful coastline.... The protest now taking place on Jeju counts as a critical ... More >>
Truthout: October 5, 2011
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 11:05 am | truthout.org
"Hedge fund magnate Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses. What he chews down is sickening, but just as nausea-inducing are his new tablemates: billionaires Ken Langone and the Koch Brothers, Charles and David. Singer has called together ... More >>
Truthout: October 4, 2011
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:36 am | truthout.org
"Like all great capers, this $30 billion Medicare crime supposedly unfolded in plain sight. A drug rep sat in the doctor's office, balancing folders on his knees and flipping through the patient files. He wore a starched shirt, navy slacks and a golf ... More >>
Truthout: 29 September 2011
Monday, 3 October 2011, 12:38 pm | truthout.org
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "The recent dramatic expansion of intelligence collection at the federal, state and local level raises profound civil liberties concerns regarding freedoms and protections we have long ... More >>
Truthout: 22 September 2011
Friday, 23 September 2011, 5:17 pm | truthout.org
Republicans and conservatives have done us a service by describing federal policies in terms of 'class war.' But by applying the term only to Obama's latest proposals to raise taxes on the rich, they have it all backward and upside down. More >>
Truthout: 17 September 2011
Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 3:16 pm | truthout.org
"When governments fall deaf to social reality, it's up to working people to get loud. Obama's jobs speech proved that the Democrats - like the Republicans - suffer from massive hearing loss, unable to listen to the millions of people suffering from the ... More >>
Truthout: 13 September 2011
Friday, 16 September 2011, 11:59 am | truthout.org
"The horrifying atrocities of September 11 are something quite new in world affairs, not in their scale and character, but in the target. For the United States, this is the first time since the War of 1812 that the national territory has been under ... More >>
Bernanke Speech Was Only a Minor Footnote to Enduring Crisis
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 12:39 pm | truthout.org
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "If Americans expected some sign of dramatic policy initiatives from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, they were disappointed in Friday's speech. Instead, Bernanke repeated how confident he was in the basic strengths ... More >>
Truthout: 22 August 2011
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10:10 am | truthout.org
"Cuddly cartoon animals and whimsical fairy-tale stories are merely Disney's public face ... It also owns six motion picture studios, ABC television network and its 226 affiliated stations, multiple cable television networks, 227 radio stations, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt | Next Stop: Train Wreck
Saturday, 13 August 2011, 3:18 pm | truthout.org
Friday 12 August 2011 William Rivers Pitt | Next Stop: Train Wreck William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Leadership in both the House and Senate have tapped the twelve members who will make up the so-called 'Super-Committee,' which will be responsible ... More >>
Truthout: August 11, 2011
Friday, 12 August 2011, 5:02 pm | truthout.org
In today's On the News segment: Jan Schakowsky introduces a plan to create 2.2 million jobs, again; stocks plummeted 519 points; 79 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the United States government, secret peace negotiations between United States ... More >>
Truthout: August 9, 2011
Thursday, 11 August 2011, 3:34 pm | truthout.org
In today's On the News segment: Today is judgment day in Wisconsin with six Republican state senators who supported Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union efforts now fighting for their political lives in the biggest recall election ever held in this country, ... More >>
Truthout: August 5, 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011, 4:49 pm | truthout.org
Mike Elk and Bob Sloan, The Nation: "Although a wide variety of goods have long been produced by state and federal prisoners for the US government - license plates are the classic example, with more recent contracts including everything from guided ... More >>
31 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan Helicopter Shootdown
Sunday, 7 August 2011, 11:05 am | truthout.org
Saturday 06 August 2011 31 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan Helicopter Shootdown Hashim Shukoor and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "Thirty-one U.S. troops, including more than 20 Navy SEALs, and seven Afghan soldiers died when their ... More >>
Truthout: 2 August 2011
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 11:41 am | truthout.org
Jennifer Steinhauer and Carl Hulse, The New York Times News Service: "The Senate voted Tuesday to raise the government’s debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from its spending, finally ending a fractious partisan battle just hours before the ... More >>
Truthout: July 26, 2011
Thursday, 28 July 2011, 12:26 pm | truthout.org
"The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of ... More >>
Truthout 22 July 2011
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 2:03 pm | truthout.org
"I did a running diary of the Fox News coverage of the Murdoch hearings in Britain on Tuesday, and thought it would be a fine idea to watch Fox for a few hours on Thursday to see how often they talked about that testimony, as well as the whole phone-hacking ... More >>
