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“Free trade” is a guaranteed ticket to the poorhouse for any nation, and the evidence is overwhelming.

(Image: Knopf) “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future” is the Truthout Progressive Pick of the Week. The Federal Reserve Board, arguably the most …

“Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future - Eccles’s Insight” is the Truthout Progressive Pick of the Week. The Federal Reserve Board, arguably the most powerful group …

(Image: Verso Books) Chris Steffner strode to the front of the packed audience, shunning the podium to deliver her sermon Oprah-style with a wireless mic transmitting the …

(Image: Bloomsbury Press) Ben Santer is the kind of guy you could never imagine anyone attacking. He’s thoroughly moderate—of moderate height and build, of moderate temperament, of …

(Image: Bloomsbury Publishers) Thing 1: There is No Such Thing as a Free Market What They Tell You Markets need to be free. …

Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers Journal. (Photo: Bill Moyers Journal) Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers. They have seen firsthand the toll war …

The zombie metaphor points dramatically to a kind of “mad agency that is power in a new form, death-in-life.”

The growing numbers of zombies in the mainstream media have huge financial backing from the corporate elite.

I can say with relative confidence (because what I'm saying, at least it would seem, has to be true) that there is only one necessary religion that has any merit …