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For more than two weeks, hundreds of demonstrators have encamped themselves on Wall Street in New York City, hoping to call attention to the financial sector’s greed and inequities …

An anti-government protester defaces a picture of Hosni Mubarak. (Photo: Antonello Mangano / Flickr) In an era where multinational corporations and linked international security networks exert increasing …

When the nation’s biggest banks were bailed out in 2008 via the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, the money came with a few (very loose) strings, including restrictions …

In today's On the News segment: the Occupy Wall Street movement is picking up some crucial support, Bernanke issues a warning to Congress, a top Al Qaeda leader was …

We dodged another shut-down bullet, but only until November 18. That’s when the next temporary bill to keep the government going runs out. House Republicans want more budget cuts …

The other day we spoke to RT Television about our search for the #OccupyWallStreet demonstrations in a lower Manhattan that almost felt as if it were under military siege. …

Why everything you think you know about economics is probably wrong (Part 2) Absolute and comparative advantage – the faulty premise behind the ideology of free trade …

Now he tells us. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to the nation's unemployment rate as a “national crisis,” a depressing if obvious fact of …

Despite recent odes to “post-racial” sensibilities, persistent racial wage and unemployment gaps show that prejudice is alive and well in America. Nonetheless, that truism is often angrily denied or …

A court in Bahrain sentenced a protester to death on Thursday for killing a police officer in March, and it issued harsh prison terms to medical workers who treated …