In a world bursting with confused rage, Truthout offers a refuge, a place where dogma is challenged and bold solutions are proposed. This is not a time for timid reporting and analysis - and your financial support is needed now. Can you make a tax-deductible donation toward the $35,000 more we need to raise to continue our work? Our future may depend upon it. Click here to donate. (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 Bill Moyers | Henry Giroux: Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: "What's at stake here is not just the fact that you have rich people who now control the economy and all the commanding institutions of society. What you have is basically a transgression against the very basic ideals of democracy. I mean, it's hard to imagine life beyond capitalism. You know, it's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism." Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Chomsky Weighs In on Kennedy Assassination Anniversary: "It Would Impress Kim Il-Sung" Daniel Falcone, Truthout: In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky reflects on the dark legacy of assassinated President John F. Kennedy and Americans' leader worship going back to the "crazed George Washington cult." Read the Interview "Entitlements" and Our Dollar Democracy Ellen Dannin, Truthout: How did it happen that billionaire farmers are not only entitled to their "entitlements" but are entitled to keep them secret, while those who have paid into Social Security have become greedy freeloaders whose entitlements must be cut? Read the Article The Rage of the Angry White Male Continues Its Battle Against Equality Mark Karlin, Truthout: "Men can be dragged kicking and screaming into that inevitable future, or we can accept it and ask what it means for us," says Michael Kimmel, author of Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. Read the Interview New Book Examines JFK's Final Days Larry J. Sabato, Truthout: This excerpt from The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy shows a president whose laudable public ambition and achievements were undercut by despicable private behavior. Read the Excerpt Ahead of World Cup, Labor Abuses Rampant for Migrants in Qatar, Reports Find Candice Bernd, Truthout: Two reports by Amnesty International document a range of abuses against migrant workers constructing the 2022 FIFA World Cup stadium in Qatar, as well as against domestic workers including nonpayment of wages, harsh and dangerous working and living conditions, and forced labor. Read the Article Dumbing Down America: The Decline of Education in the US as Seen From Down Under Niall McLaren, Truthout: American education costs far more than it should and fails those populations disadvantaged through no fault of their own. The electorate fails to realize it must unite to solve a problem that other nations solved a hundred or more years ago, says McLaren. Read the Article 11/22: The Day "Truth" Died Ira Chernus, History News Network: The most important fact about the JFK assassination is that, after 50 years, the debate about what really happened that day in Dealey Plaza goes on with no end in sight. Read the Article Thai Spring? Michael Pirsch, Truthout: There seems to be overwhelming popular support to remove Thailand's Pheua Thai Party-led government, but no political organization to replace it that promotes the general welfare of the people. Read the Article Fracking Lobby's Tax Forms: Big Bucks to Media Outlets, "Other ALECs" Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: America's Natural Gas Alliance - the public relations arm of the oil and gas fracking industry - has released its 2012 Internal Revenue Services 990 form, and it's rich with eye-opening revelations, some of which we report here for the first time. Read the Article Vietnam and the Legacy of the JFK Presidency Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Paul Jay takes a look at the significance of John F. Kennedy's presidency, his accomplishments, and/or lack thereof, taking a big-picture approach at just what Kennedy represented in terms of the flow of American post-World War II history. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript |
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