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Obama’s “Free Trade” Follies: A Conversation With Global Trade Watch
Last month, just as populist protests against economic policies designed by and for America's top 1 percent were exploding across the country, the Obama administration pushed through Congress three …
#Occupy Bat Signal for the 99%
Words as the Way to Freedom: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Special thanks to the Progressive Magazine. Featuring: Jimmy Santiago Baca, poet and educator; Matthew Rothschild, Progressive Magazine Editor.
America’s Not Broke: Solving the Debt Crisis By Making Nation More Equitable, Green & Secure
Amy Goodman: As we turn to Washington where the bipartisan so-called, “supercommittee” has failed to reach an agreement on reducing the federal deficit. On Monday, Democrats and Republicans abandoned …
Author Challenges Zionist Narrative: Israeli Jews Are Not the “Eternal Victims“
Gilbert Achcar is professor of development studies and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. His research has included the study …
Will Poor Nations Suffer Greatly from Climate Change?
My critics have “granted me” the point that developed free market cities have the ability and the capacity to cope with many aspects of climate change. But they …
How Progressives Won the Labor Rights Showdown in Ohio
Thousands gather to say “Kill The Bill” to Senate Bill 5 on March 8 in Columbus, OH. (Photo: Ohio AFL-CIO) Last week, the labor movement and its …
The Crash of 1929 Was Just a Prelude: Truthout Interviews Whistleblower-Novelist Nomi Prins
Nomi Prins, author of “Black Tuesday.” (Photo: Official Nomi Prins Page) Nomi Prins: Into the crash of 1929, there were six big banks. Their leaders controlled most …
Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About Obama’s Detainee Policies (2)
Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About Obama’s Detainee Policies
When Obama was running for president he made the American people a promise to close Guantanamo Bay. The detention prison has been open for 10 years and was originally …