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Marty Kaplan on Big Money’s Effect on Big Media
Big money and big media have coupled to create a ‘Disney World’ of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, just as …
Activists Challenge African “Land Grab”
The World Bank and Wall Street firms targeted for African land deals displacing hundreds of thousands.
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
As ordinary citizens frustrated with the economic crisis are making their presence known across the United States, by joining burgeoning social movements, "Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?" provides …
AP: US Soldiers Promised Massacre, Including Children, Days Before Bales’ Alleged Rampage
In a striking omission to mainstream coverage of the Afghan massacre which took the lives of 17 Afghans including many children, one as young as two, the AP has …
Occupy the DOJ: Activists Protest Injustice of Criminal Justice System
Islamophobic Group Clarion Fund Lends Film Footage for Viral Video Pushing Iran Attack
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported yesterday on a series of viral videos produced by a new organization TheLandOfIsrael.com offering justifications for an Israeli attack on Iran. JTA notes the …
Evidence Implicates Top BP Executives
Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up—which included falsifying a report to the Securities …
The BP Disaster, Two Years Later
BP Blamed for Ongoing Health Problems
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. (Photo: DVIDSHUB / Flickr)Gulf Coast residents and clean up workers have found chemicals present in BP's oil …
Gulf Aquatic Wildlife Deformities Alarm Scientists
Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. New Orleans, Louisiana - "The fishermen have never seen anything …