William Rivers Pitt | The Last Dead Nazi William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Heinrich Boere was 92 years old when he passed away Monday in a prison facility in Froendenberg, Germany. He was perhaps the state's most notorious prisoner. After all, some 68 years removed from the end of World War II, how many living Nazis from the days of Hitler's Reich can there be left? Read the Article Does Hillary's Silence on Iran Deal Show Neocon Pull on Her Presidential Run? Robert Naiman, Truthout: It's important to smoke out Hillary on the Iran nuclear deal. Would President Hillary Clinton answer to the majority of Americans who want peace or her "harder-line supporters" who want more war? Read the Article A Daughter Is Born in the Swat Valley of Pakistan and Set Free by Knowledge Malala Yousafzai, Little Brown and Company: "My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.' I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and even beyond the valley. But, as I watched my brothers running across the roof, I wondered how free a daughter could ever be." Read the Excerpt "Banana Republic" Honduras Open for Business After Tainted Election Lauren Carasik, Truthout: Allegations of widespread fraud and intimidation taint last month's election results in Honduras as economic neoliberalism and police thuggery threaten the poor and indigenous. Read the Article ALEC's Extreme Legislative Agenda for 2014 Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch: The American Legislative Exchange Council meets in Washington this week for its "States and Nation Policy Summit," which is one of the ways ALEC crafts and pushes its legislative agenda for the coming year. But what will happen behind closed doors during the meeting? Read the Article Low-Wage Workers' Movement Catches Fire Bethania Palma Markus, Truthout: The widely publicized Black Friday protests against unfair labor practices and low wages at Walmart are part of a growing national campaign that reaches deep into the grassroots and includes restaurant and retail workers. Read the Article John Pilger | Discovering the Power of People's History - and Why It Is Feared Today John Pilger, Truthout: The great radical tradition of resistance in the north - from the cotton workers of the 19th century to the Great Miners' Strike of 1984 and 1985 - always threatened the game known in London as "the consensus." Read the Article Paul Krugman | US Health Reform Keeps Insurance Companies in the Mix, No Matter the Cost Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: It's been clear all along that the Affordable Care Act sets up a sort of Rube Goldberg device: a complicated system that in the end is supposed to more or less simulate the results of single-payer, but keeps private insurance companies. Read the Article Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor Steve Horn and Carl Gibson, Occupy.com: Serbia's Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late 1990s and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the US-funded Serbian activist group that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. But he also had ties to the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Read the Article Will Congress Make College Textbooks Free? Kevin Mathews, Care2: Because of skyrocketing costs, today's students can barely afford their textbooks, let alone their tuition. Fortunately, relief may be in sight. In a bid to remove some of the financial burden from higher education, a pair of Democratic senators has introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act. Read the Article |
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