Compassion and understanding inform what we publish at Truthout - whether it's reporting from another continent, from an ignored American neighborhood or on the real impact of government policy. This kind of work needs support from compassionate readers like you. Will you help us raise the $33,000 we still need by making a tax-deductible donation today? 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 America's Secret Police Aaron Leonard, Truthout: Who did the FBI spy on in the 1960s and why? Betty Medsger's The Burglary and Seth Rosenfeld's Subversives tell the story of FBI spying on activists, but Aaron Leonard argues that they don't adequately explain why certain targets were chosen. Read the Article Obama Pins Fate of Nuclear Pact on Documents From an Iranian "Curveball" Gareth Porter, Truthout: Obama administration officials insist "possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear program must be resolved to the satisfaction of the IAEA to complete a nuclear agreement. But the term refers to discredited intelligence from suspect sources. Read the Article Privacy as the New Free-Trade Zone of Corporate Exploitation Fred Guerin, Truthout: Global surveillance is not only an unnecessary, unconstitutional infringement on our private lives, a violation of the boundaries between the private and the public, but also the precondition for totalitarian control. Read the Article Hidden History: The War on Poverty at 50 Ted Morgan, Truthout: Despite mass media attention to the War on Poverty at 50, its centerpiece, the Community Action Program, is ignored. Thus an important story - how the poor were empowered and then cast aside - is lost. Read the Article If Hillary Is the Only Candidate, Where Does She Stand on Keystone XL? Robert Naiman, Truthout: Hillary Clinton may be the only candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, but we still need to know what her positions are. Where does she stand on the Keystone XL pipeline? Read the Article Sixteen for '16 - Number 1: JOBS Salvatore Babones, Truthout: The first article in a new series - previewing 16 topics that should be on every progressive's agenda for 2016 - details an aggressive government jobs creation program to put 10 million people back to work. Read the Article Soundtrack for Abortion Clinic Escort: Lies and Vituperation With a Side of Prayer Lauren Rankin, Truthout: In a pro-choice town in a pro-choice state, abortion clinic patients cannot reach the clinic door without negotiating a pathway of screams, hostility and lies. Lauren Rankin describes her experience volunteering as a clinic escort. Read the Article Is It Time for a New Church Committee? The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: President Ford once referred to the Nixon era in America as this nation's "long national nightmare." The out-of-control nature of our national security agencies today is our new "national nightmare." And the only way to wake up is to create a new Church Commission, which will investigate the intelligence community. Read the Article "The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete": Did NSA Hack Computer of Snowden Biographer and Edit Book Draft? Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Is the National Security Agency breaking into computers and tampering with unpublished manuscripts? Award-winning Guardian journalist Luke Harding says paragraphs of his writing mysteriously disappeared when he was working on his latest book. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript A New Neocon Push for Syrian War Coleen Rowley, Consortium News: The neocon agenda of "regime change" in disfavored countries continues unabated with new pressure for a US military intervention in Syria, billed as "humanitarian" and coupled with ridicule for anyone who favors the frustrating course of diplomacy. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: The USDA Has Opened a Public Comment Period on GMO Policy, and More In today's On the News segment: Right now, you can tell the US Department of Agriculture what you think on the so-called "co-existence" of organic, conventional and genetically engineered crops; low-water levels are more dangerous for California residents; over-the-counter and prescription drugs from India are a big concern right now; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Air Force Bombings Endanger and Kill Civilians in Colombia Dawn Paley, Upside Down World: Overnight, Giovanni Yamid Aldana, his wife and their 8-year-old son were transformed from small farmers subsisting off of their 10-hectare plot to three more among over 5.3 million people internally displaced by the armed conflict in Colombia. Read the Article |
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