Principal Fired Over Parent Complaints on Lesson Showing Michelangelo’s “David”. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 1 year ago

Chomsky: US Must Join Global Call for Negotiations as Russia Escalates Actions

There’s no certainty negotiations would result in peace, but as Chomsky says, there is only one way to find out: Try. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 1 year ago

More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude

Bosses in more industries are preventing workers from quitting by charging them for training costs if they leave. | Continue reading


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Noam Chomsky: Humanity Faces Two Existential Threats. One Is Nearly Ignored

A major public opinion study asked people to rank the import of 29 current issues. Nuclear war wasn’t even on the list. | Continue reading


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Warren Says US Is Just Two Anti-Filibuster Democrats Away From Codifying “Roe”. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 1 year ago

The U.S. isn’t prepared to deal with future COVID variants, an entirely different pandemic, or even the current spread. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

UK Wants to Incarcerate Asylum Seekers “Offshore” on Abandoned Oil Rigs

The U.K. is intensifying its criminalization of most migrants, underscoring double standards as it welcomes Ukrainians. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Democrats are part of the problem because they are failing to hold accountable those attempting to derail elections. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Chomsky: Peace Talks in Ukraine “Will Get Nowhere” If US Keeps Refusing to Join

The only way to bring this war to an end before it escalates, Noam Chomsky says, is through a negotiated settlement. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors

Russia’s invasion is a war crime, Chomsky says, but the U.S. shouldn’t escalate this conflict between nuclear powers. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Apple Employee Blows Whistle on Illegal Spying and Toxic Working Conditions

Complaints alleging illegal surveillance, whistleblower retaliation and workplace safety have been found to have merit. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Self-styled green companies have been contributing to the campaigns of the two lawmakers now holding the planet hostage. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Half a Million South Korean Workers Prepare to Walk Off Jobs in General Strike

U.S. observers must not treat the struggle in South Korea as a distant concern. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Exxon-Influenced Senators Carved Climate Out of Infrastructure Almost

The latest infrastructure negotiations cut about $29 billion from the previous draft, taking most from climate funding. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

The Supreme Court is set to review a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 2 years ago

Evidence of Fracking Chemicals Found in Bodies of Pennsylvania Children

One 9-year-old had 91 times the average level of biomarkers for toluene, a chemical that can damage livers and kidneys. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

The answer to Anti-Asian racism is not more policing

Policing is rooted in upholding white supremacy while enabling racist systems to inflict harm on communities of color. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

Researchers at Columbia University described the Trump White House's inactions on coronavirus as an "abject failure." | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

White House Uses Petition with Fake Doctors, Prank Names to Push Herd Immunity

Many experts agree that a strategy of "natural" herd immunity will result in more unnecessary deaths from coronavirus. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

The Trump campaign is strategizing ways to bypass the popular vote as the window for a genuine electoral win closes. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

Owl of Minerva’s View – Noam Chomsky

It's not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as she undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human civilization. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA's Experiments on Children (2010)

Bobby is seven years old, but this is not the first time he has been subjected to electroshock. It's his third time. In all, over the next year, Bobby will experience eight electroshock sessions. Placed on the examining table, he is held down by two male attendants while the phys … | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

Trump laid down his marker on stolen land this weekend, and intimidated precisely nobody. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

I cannot celebrate a country that has systematically disenfranchised Black people and has written off disabled people. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

As the President Wages War on DC Residents It’s Clear He Must Resign Immediately

For the good of the country, for the good of the people, Donald Trump must resign. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 3 years ago

Historic Injustices Against Native People Put Them at Greater Risk of Covid-19

While U.S. politicians bail out corporations, their promises to fund Indigenous health care remain empty. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

The Strict Father Is at the Core of Conservative Ideology and Values (2014)

Liberals tend not to understand conservatives, and their confusion is showing. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Schools Are Operating as Testbeds for Mass Surveillance

A school district in New York recently adopted facial recognition technology to monitor students. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

AI Algorithms Intended to Catch Welfare Fraud Often Punish the Poor Instead

These tools are often built on the assumption that fraud among the poor is endemic. In fact, it is rare. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Facebook Ads Should Face the Same Libel Law as Media Outlets

Facebook will not screen political ads for truthfulness. Why does it remain exempt from libel laws? | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

History of Conflict with Iran

Trump's assassination of Suleimani is an act of reckless international terrorism, says Chomsky. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

A two-thirds supermajority in the Republican-controlled Senate is still required to convict President Trump. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor

The right-wing members of the National Labor Relations Board want to make it legal for corporations to spy on workers. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

UK Ignores UN Deadline to End Illegal Occupation of the Chagos Islands

The "great powers" have shown that international law becomes wet paper when it contradicts their interests. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet

A new book dubs our current geological era the “Capitalocene.” | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

The attorney general's actions violate several of the American Bar Association's rules of professional conduct. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

The Public Is Clearly on the Side of Net Neutrality

A recent federal appeals court ruling on net neutrality is a big loss, but it doesn’t sound like the fight is over. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

We Can't Confront Climate Change While Lavishly Funding the Pentagon

As defender of the world's oil-fueled economy, the Pentagon is also the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

The pro-gun lobby attacks the U.S.'s biggest retailer over new gun policies in the wake of recent mass shootings. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Alaska’s Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded

There was no sea ice left within 150 miles of Alaska's shores during one of the hottest Julys on record. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Places of worship are harboring families facing deportation, defying the law but fulfilling a moral imperative. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

By Focusing on Russia, We Ignore Trump’s Existential Threat to Climate

We should be focused on dealing with the environmental crisis while we still have time to do so, says Noam Chomsky. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Grades Are Capitalism in Action. Let’s Get Them Out of Our Schools

Grading teaches meritocracy, which in turn helps deflect blame for capitalism's failures onto its victims. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Majority of House Democrats Have Signed on to Medicare for All

Sustained grassroots organizing made this moment possible. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed

The widespread cultivation of industrial hemp could be a cheap way to fight pollution. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Noam Chomsky: Life Expectancy in the US Is Declining for a Reason

Economic stagnation due to neoliberal policies is causing "deaths of despair" in the U.S., says Chomsky. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

Mitch McConnell and his GOP colleagues are consistently blocking election security bills. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago

In Trump’s world, obedience and allegiance to the leader are demanded, while opponents are crushed. | Continue reading


@truthout.org | 4 years ago