Happy New Year! A Reflection on 20 Years at Truthout
The New Year’s holiday is a time for memories, for an accounting of the span you’ve just passed, for an assessment of where you are now, and for looking down the road and making wild-ass guesses about where you’ll be a year from now. This New Year’s Eve is particularly poignant for me, as January […]
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One Year in, Biden’s Nuclear Policies Look a Lot Like Trump’s
Speaking at a New Hampshire event for the 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden told the crowd, “We don’t need more nuclear weapons, period.” After the bluster and apocalyptic theatrics of Donald Trump, many voters hoped Biden’s decades of nuclear arms control experience would bring restraint and stability to the United States’ nuclear policies. In Biden’s […]
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The US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Nuclear Waste
A year and a quarter after a scathing Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporIt was revealed that the US Department of Energy has no plan in place to manage the nuclear waste from weapons manufacturing, which has accumulated at more than 150 sites across the nation. The DoE has also made little progress in developing a […]
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15 Things Biodiversity Protectors Are Watching Out for in 2022
It’s no secret that the diversity of life around us is plummeting fast. In 2020 alone, scientists declared more than 100 species to be extinct. And that’s bad news not only for the creatures themselves, but for those of us (that would be all of us) who rely on them for food, to produce oxygen, […]
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Greene Suggests Blue State Residents Moving to Red Ones Shouldn’t Get to Vote
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, posted on Wednesday that she was open to the idea of temporarily banning voters if people recently moved from a Democratic state to one run by Republicans. In her tweetGreene shared a statement by Pedro Gonzalez, associate editor for right-wing publications Chronicles Magazine, who said that he […]
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Biden Administration Seeks to Overturn Trump-Era “Remain in Mexico” Policy
The Biden administration has requested that the Supreme Court review – and potentially reverse – their decision to uphold a Trump-era anti-immigration policy colloquially known as “Remain in Mexico.” This policy, also known as the Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP, forces asylum seekers to remain on the Mexican side border while they wait for court […]
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FDA Expected to Authorize COVID Booster Shots for 12- to 15-Year-Olds
Sources within the FDA claim that the Food and Drug Administration will soon authorize booster shots for children between 12 and 15 years old, beginning next week. Pfizer/BioNTech boosters for young teens were supposed to be authorized this weekHowever, the FDA had holiday-related scheduling conflicts that delayed the authorization. The FDA will share data that […]
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Sanders Pushes Workers to Organize as Advocates Celebrate “Year of the Worker”
As labor advocates hail 2021 as the “year of the worker,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is encouraging workers to maintain the momentum by using their collective leverage to organize. On Wednesday, Sanders warned corporations and executives via Twitter. “For the ruling class, greed is a religion. They will cut back on workers’ wages, on workers’ […]
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Democrats Reject Work Ethic, Embrace Freeloaders
The Democratic Party used to call itself the party of working people and hail the “dignity of work.” You can do it all. Democrats want to guarantee people who refuse to work an income from the suckers who do right by showing up for work and caring for their family. These self-supporting Americans have fortunately […]
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In 2021, Media Did More to Erode Trust Than to Repair It
It’s obvious that the media’s hatred for Donald Trump colored nearly everything they wrote or said during his presidency. One hopes that the media might regain some objectivity once he leaves the White House. A review of 2021 shows that it did not happen in many cases. The case of actor Jussie Smollett’s fake hate […]
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