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The US Military’s Limited Critique of Itself Ensures Future Disasters
Is it possible that the best way to win future wars is to avoid them altogether?
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Larry Summers’ Toxic Trait
James Kwak explains that Summers is not good at charming those he considers to be his inferiors, but he's surprisingly excellent at cultivating people with real power.
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Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence With Citigroup
This big bank has a sordid history of predatory profiteering and criminal activity, not unlike all the other large banks.
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Concentrated, Privatized Wealth or Shared Prosperity and Economic Democracy?
It is going to take action from below to create an economy that puts people and the planet before profits.
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No More Second Chances for Larry Summers
William Grieder: If Obama chooses Larry Summers for Federal Reserve chairman, Wall Street wins again.
Collapsing Investment and the Great Recession
Economics professor Gerald Friedman illustrates the links between collapsing investment and the Great Recession.
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An American Reckoning
In the aftershock of the Boston bombings, there's only two possible avenues of response: revenge, or reckoning.
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US Embassy, DEA Obstructing Investigation Into Drug War Killings in Honduras
The failure to provide answers about what happened last year has shed light on the DEA's questionable methods.
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How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – and What to Do About It
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.
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Time to Send the Crony Banksters to Jail
This morning, in one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S. history, a federal grand jury indicted SAC Capital Advisors, a major hedge fund worth $15 billion dollars, …