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Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit,[1] progressive news organization that operates a web site[2] and distributes a daily newsletter. Registered in September 2001,[3] Truthout.org is ranked in the top 6,000 web sites on the Internet, with an estimated 2.5 million visits per month.[4] Truthout publishes original political news articles, opinion pieces, video reports and artwork. According to its web site, "As an organization, Truthout works to broaden and diversify the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on undercovered issues and unconventional thinking."[5] More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Has America Become an Authoritarian State?
What is missing in the current debates dominating Washington politics is the recognition that the real issues at stake are neither the debt ceiling nor the state of the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
How Propagandists for the 1% Are Manipulating Christian Teachings to Rob the Middle Class
In order to understand the fervor of this continued popular support for failed policies, it is important to grasp the utopian, quasi-theological nature of neoliberal ideology. ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Why Don't Americans Care About Democracy at Home?
economic darwinism will...ensure the ...eventual elimination of those...willing to fight for public values, rights, spaces and institutions not wedded to the logic of ...Posted by Patricia L'Herrou -
How The Big Banks Run The World -- At Your Expense
.Once you realize money must be and is regularly created and expanded, then the interesting questions begin to occur - like "How is it done?" and "Who benefits from it?" Step ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Why the GOP Is Trying to Pin High Gas Prices on Obama (and Gullible Americans Are Falling for It)
research shows that voters tend to focus primarily on the direction of change. This means that if the unemployment rate is falling and the economy is creating jobs at a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide
The global reach and destructiveness of neoliberal values and disciplinary controls are not only evident in the widespread hardships and human suffering caused by the economic ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Breivik's Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours
by using the clip from "The Town," it appears that Republican leaders used gratuitous images of mind-crushing violence and retribution as a legitimate, even inspiring, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Brainwashing the Corporate Way
Professionals are said to be meritorious and non-ideological. Yet, in spite of their education, writes Schmidt, they think less independently than non-professionals. They use ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution
Our country is in tatters. While more and more of us plunge into official poverty status, our elected leaders, who are in service to the wealthy elite, argue about how much to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Renewable Future
Renewable energy triggers sharply polarized views. For some, it is a costly white elephant; for others, it is humanity’s savior, promising to emancipate us (and our ...Posted by Michael Dewey



