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In San Francisco and Oakland, Residents Fight Back Against Tech Giants
Protests against tech giants Apple, Google and Facebook for encouraging eviction, gentrification and displacement in San Francisco's working-class neighborhoods picked up steam with protests on both sides of the …
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It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken
Which tastes better: a mass-produced organic chicken, a factory-farmed inmate or a true pastured chicken?
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Who’re You Rootin’ for – Team Public or Team Private?
The federal government's privatization infrastructure is so expensive that it is impossible to prove the process leads to cost savings.
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The Arc of Justice and the Long Run: Hope, History, and Unpredictability
Rebecca Solnit: The past explodes from time to time, and many events that once seemed to have achieved nothing turn out to do their work slowly.
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Dean Baker | Inequality: Government Is a Perp, Not a Bystander
Dean Baker: President Obama wants the public to believe that inequality is something that just happened.
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“Let the Crime Spree Begin”: How Fraud Flourishes in Medicare’s Drug Plan
Medicare's massive drug program has a process so convoluted and poorly managed that fraud flourishes, giving rise to elaborate schemes that quickly siphon away millions of dollars.
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Taking Direct Action Against Israel’s Racist Marriage Law
Activists have launched a new campaign to challenge Israeli laws which prevent many Palestinians from marrying each other.
Trade Advantage Replaced by Rent Extraction
Michael Hudson was interviewed on the Renegade Economists podcast entitled “Crony Competition on the Road to Unearned Income.”
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The Growth of Catholic Hospitals, by the Numbers
The past few years have been a period of unprecedented turmoil for the hospital industry. Now, a new report confirms that Catholic hospitals are emerging as one of the …
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Letter From Cairo: Arab Winter and Revolutionary Regrets
It's a phrase you hear often in Egypt. “Before the revolution,” locals say, things were bad but manageable.