TruthOut
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TruthOut.org is an American political website aimed at providing an alternative to corporate news sources. It was started in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election with the goal of, in its words, "hoping to reach a few people, have some small impact on the dialogue, and maybe try to restore a little integrity." It claims to have more than 4 million visits per month. Some of its prominent contributors include William Rivers Pitt, Jason Leopold, Scott Galindez, David Bacon, Dean Baker, Tom Engelhardt, William Fisher, Dahr Jamail, Ray McGovern, J. Sri Raman, Norman Solomon, David ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Online
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Medium audience (100-500K) (English)
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National
Political Viewpoint:
Left
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N/A | Managers: Scott Galindez, Victoria Harper
Research
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P.O. Box 231278, Encinitas, CA, 92023, US
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Ezra Fox
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Sep 18, 2007 - 3:05 PM PDT
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Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War
The White Man's Burden, a phrase immortalized by English poet Rudyard Kipling as an excuse for European-American imperialism, was front and center Thursday morning (October ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
A Simpleton Tries to Understand the Health Care Debate
After all, these two things are not the same. Insurance companies are not in the health care business. They are in the risk business. They assess risk and then charge you a ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes
the Obama administration has sought to conceal information in several high-profile court cases, in an effort that civil libertarians say amounts to covering up crimes ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan
If U.S. military leaders are right that they cannot prevail in Afghanistan without escalating into Pakistan, this is the strongest possible argument for withdrawing from ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Why Obama Must Spend More
The latest signals from the White House suggest that President Obama now realizes he must do more - and quickly - to ease the economic suffering of working families. He knows ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Marching Backwards: The Spectacle of Fear
Glenn Beck is not original, nor was Joe McCarthy. The "red scare" of McCarthyism was merely the recycled red scare of the 1920's, when Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and his ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Advocates Fight Mountaintop Removal
Environmental groups across the southeast United States, from Georgia to the Appalachia region, are stepping up their opposition to a controversial but widespread practice by ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Banning a Book Near You
Hopkins told me she has received thousands of letters from teenagers who say her books helped them turn their lives around. She also said she is seeing an uptick in attempts ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
The Republican War Against ACORN
In recent days, The Washington Post, The New York Times and other major news outlets have recounted the "troubled" history of the poor people's advocacy group ACORN, but left ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Data Reveals California's Private Insurers Deny 21 Percent of Claims
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee has released new data that shows one in every five requests made for medical claims by insured patients, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Cut Wall Street Out! How States Can Finance Their Own Economic Recovery
The BND's populist organizers originally conceived of the bank as a credit union-like institution that would free farmers from predatory lenders, but conservative interests ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Interview with James Galbraith
We need to find another path for economic expansion. We need to set a strategic direction. Our problem now, our big social and environmental problem, is energy. It's climate ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
What's So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speech | Health and Wellness
"Agribusiness gets plenty of opportunities to preach its point of view at agriculture schools such as Cal Poly, where the likes of Monsanto and Cargill fund research," the ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
The Middle East: Victory Is Obsolete
Acceptance of each other can only follow from acceptance of some bigger realities that form an inescapable context for both sides. The first reality is that they each equally ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Can the Peace Movement Reach President Obama?
If there were ever a time when the peace movement should be able to have an impact on US foreign policy, that time should be now. If there were ever a time for extraordinary ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Texas, the Eyes of Justice Are Upon You
they can be short on mercy in texas. all the more reason to mourn the loss of justice--william wayne justice. rest in peace, your honorPosted by Patricia L'Herrou -
Pentagon Speeding Up Production of Bunker Busters
This month, the Defense Department awarded $51.9 million to McDonnell Douglas to more quickly adapt a 30,000-pound bunker buster to the B-2 stealth bomber.Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Obama's Choice: Failed War President or the Prince of Peace?
More than 100 years after their early counterinsurgency efforts on two tiny islands in the Philippines, U.S. troops are still dying there at the hands of Muslim guerillas. ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Freddie Mac, Given Oversight of Mortgage Mod Program, Falls Down on Job
As ProPublica and others have reported, homeowners have frequently been rejected for loan mods even though they appear to qualify. The Treasury Department tapped Freddie to ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
The Washington Post Creates Its Own Facts to Support Afghan Nation-Building
The Washington Post is creating its own facts in order to support its argument for US nation-building in Afghanistan. In its lead editorial on Saturday, the Post asserted that ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
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