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What do Hosni Mubarak and the major United States cable companies have in common? RootsAction partner Truthout exposes the Al-Jezeera connection.

Call the White House Thursday to voice your support for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower US Army PFC Bradley Manning. Bradley has been held in solitary confinement-like conditions for over eight months, and his trial is still months away

How can a powerful left-wing political movement take shape in the United States? RootsAction Senior Fellow Norman Soloman joins a panel of other experts to discuss the way forward.

Cornel West and Tavis Smiley discuss whether Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

Fifty years after Eisenhower's speech on the "military-industrial complex," that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force. It has become a "Permanent War State," with the power to keep the United States at war continuously for the indefinite future.

Recent reports suggest that Bank of America is in damage control mode after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promises to unleash a cache of damning, secret documents.

First they failed to recognize the impending meltdown, and now economists seem ready to accept that U.S. unemployment will be higher the historic average. As if there was no other option.

Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe.

Representative John Shimkus (R-IL), who said he opposed cap and trade legislation because God would not allow the Earth to be destroyed by global warming, is seeking the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR) and everyone else who is respectable in Washington agrees: we must do something about the deficit now.