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News Corp Set to Air 9/11 Documentary Glorifying Bush; Producer Says He’s Not Interested in the “Facts“
After spending over a decade promoting President Bush, the PATRIOT Act, and the Iraq War, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation appears to be up to the same tricks, this time …
Thomas Freidman Spews Nonsense with Hurricane Force
Yes, it’s Sunday and Thomas Friedman has another of his whacky big picture columns: “Now let me say that in English: the European Union is cracking up. …
Just Plane False: New York Times Columnist Attacks NLRB for Taking Action Over Boeing’s Alleged Union Busting
Nocera Myth: Boeing Did Not Engage In “Direct Payback” Against Striking Workers Nocera On Allegations Against Boeing: "It Is A Mind-Boggling Stretch To Describe Boeing's Strategy As …
The US Whitewashes Panama’s Fatal Flaws to Champion Their Free Trade Agreement
United States-Panama Free Trade Agreement
Capitalism’s New Era
(Photo: Kaba; Edited: JR / Truthout) “Karl Marx got it right, at some point capitalism can destroy itself,” said Mr. Roubini, in an interview with The Wall …
The Kaiser Rerun Election Should Not Be Rushed. Why a “Cleansing Period” Is Needed
On July 14, 2011, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge Lana Parke set aside the historic October 2010 Kaiser Services and Tech employees' election. The contest between …
US Debt Downgrade May Have Chinese Connection
Standard & Poor’s recent downgrading of the US credit rating is being billed in the media as a major blow to the economic credibility of the nation and to …
Bernanke Speech Was Only a Minor Footnote to Enduring Crisis
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) If Americans expected some sign of dramatic policy initiatives from Federal …
How to Turn a Continent Into a Subprime CDO
The European sovereign debt crisis is little more than a huge ‘bait and switch’ perpetrated on the publics of Europe, by their governments, on behalf of their banks. We …
How Has America’s Detention System Changed Since 9/11? (Part One)
See part two in this series, here, and part three, here. Emily Berman: Today, I begin an exchange with Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Professor of Law …