Over the past year, traffic to Truthout's website has grown substantially - with over 9 million unique visitors in the past year! It's encouraging to know that so many people read our work, but to continue, we need more support from those that are able to give it. We still need to raise almost $34,000 during this drive. Will you help with a tax-deductible donation now? 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.) How's He Doin'? Bill de Blasio After Six Months Danny Katch, Truthout: Six months after the widely hailed mayoral election of the liberal Bill de Blasio, Danny Katch looks at what has changed - and not changed - from Michael Bloomberg's New York. Read the Article Five Misconceptions about the Israel-Palestine Conflict Hessam Akhlaghpour, Truthout: US media accounts tend to propagate false and misleading information about Israel, Hamas and Gaza. Five key misconceptions are debunked. Read the Article The Trials of Alleged Tween Terrorist Omar Khadr of Canada Aisha Maniar, Truthout: It is unclear how long the United States and Canada intend to keep selling the myth that Omar Khadr, a Canadian arrested without any substantive evidence at age 15 in Afghanistan, is an unrepentant war criminal. But they must realize that the end game has begun and is picking up pace. Read the Article Pascal Boniface: "Criticizing the Policies of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitic" Alexandre Devechhio, Truthout: While passions run high over Israel's operations against Gaza, the director of Paris-based think tank Institut des Relations Internationales et Stratègiques points out differences between criticizing anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and opposition to the policies of the state of Israel. Read the Article Let Them Drink Pop: Detroit's Water Crisis and the Fight for Basic Human Rights in the Motor City Drew Gibson, Virally Suppressed: American workers in Motor City have been exploited by more than evocative Chrysler ads during the Super Bowl. When the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy five years ago, Detroit laborers took the overwhelming brunt of the punitive measures that were handed out. Read the Article Hillary Clinton's Real Scandal Is Honduras, Not Benghazi Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: When Honduran military forces allied with rightist lawmakers ousted Honduras' democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya in 2009, then-Secretary of State Clinton sided with the armed forces and fought global pressure to reinstate him. Read the Article Are We Getting Enough Bang for Our Health Care Buck? Hardly Philip Caper, M.D., Bangor Daily News: The US health care system costs each of us about twice as much as those in other wealthy countries. Are we getting our money's worth? Not by a long shot. Read the Article On Israel and Palestine Patrick Youngblood, ThirdCoastActivist.org: Many in the United States dismiss the Palestine-Israel topic as both impossible to understand and impossible to resolve, but it is neither. Read the Article US Air Force Prepares to Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of Fundamentalist Christians Proselytizing War Mikey Weinstein, AlterNet: It's feared that evisceration of a US Air Force directive, which acts as one of the only barriers restraining the spread of ruthless fundamentalist Christianity throughout the US military, will pose a serious threat to the religious freedom of service members. Read the Article A Smarter Commute in the Age of Uber Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The big benefit from new information technology-mediated car services will come if they make it possible for lots of people - and not just people in Manhattan - to forgo buying their own cars. Read the Article |
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