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Our captured government won’t do its job. It doesn't keep Wall Street and banks and giant corporations from ripping us off and doesn't prosecute them after they do. It …

Shanghai - I was talking yesterday with the chief financial officer of a US-based drug firm that operates here in China, producing for the Chinese market, and got an …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Changing the way we price weapons could cut billions, but will the entrenched Department of Defense bureaucracy allow it? "Forget …

Liberty Plaza, New York City, September 26, 2011. (Photo: Sasha Y. Kimel) Of all the disastrous effects of the 1 percent's insatiable drive to accumulate wealth - …

Yeah, I know, the GOP is at War against citizens rights to do just about everything that isn't US Chamber of Commerce approved these days. That's just one of …

Pakistan, writes Spencer Ackerman at Wired's Danger Room, “is making the world a vastly more dangerous place.” Is he referring to support by its military and intelligence to the …

US Ambassador to Iraq L. Paul Bremer III at Baghdad International Airport, February 23, 2004. (Photo: Zunzanyika/USAF/DOD) Look who is giving the Libyans advice on transitioning to …

Major news outlets like The Washington Post and National Public Radio constantly bombard us with news pieces on the budget deficit. Invariably these stories focus on the cost of …

Since the 1960s, the Republican and Democratic parties have diverged in behavior – as well as over issues such as war and social programs – with the Republicans sometimes …

Americans are usually forgiving when they vote a man into the White House and he wants a second term. Of the last eight elected presidents, all but two — …