Truthout
Audio Posts
Economic Update: Economic Realities
This episode covers updates on Walmart shifts medical insurance costs onto US, payday loans, US child poverty and Obama versus workers' needs.
Shifting Syria Threats
How do you assess disproportionate harm when this entire assault on Syria is disproportionate and premised on undefined threats?
A Life-and-Death Struggle for Asylum in the US
Lawyers and feds scramble to unravel the truth from kids fleeing Central America.
Economic Update: Why Economics Is Poorly Understood
This episode covers updates on GM recalls, Cuba's investment in medical training, Germany's end-all tuition requirements, and more.
Demanding Local Power From Hong Kong to New York
Decentralized power, electoral transparency, local decision making about local concerns: are those Hong Kong's demands or ours?
Economic Update: The Economics of Corporations
This episode covers the economics of migrants, choosing not to go to college, and corporate tax dodges and their effects.
Economic Update: How Capitalism Works
This episode covers why efforts against obesity fail, Cadillac's move into New York, the Atlanta Symphony lockout, subprime auto credit and bank economics.
It’s Not the Carbon; It’s the Capitalism!
The big climate march in New York City and a big new book have concentrated attention on the climate.
Economic Update: Big Economic Changes
This episode covers the new census data, a Kentucky town going “socialist,” a workers' co-op in Maine, big wage theft and economic insecurity.
Shh! Life in a State of Surveillance
Nowadays it seems everyone wants to get their hands on our personal data.