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Corporate-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Shrouded in Secrecy
A look at the secretive negotiations that could affect every human being on the planet.
A Last-Second Appeal for Sanity
As the unprovoked war in Iraq was already falling apart with exposure of hyperbole, half-truths and even a forgery, a group of US intelligence veterans pleaded with President George …
The Pope and the Poor
Mark Engler explores the recently elected Pontif, Pope Francis I, and his relationship to the poor.
Worms, Pond Scum and Economists
High youth unemployment is a grave problem, but don't let austerity hawks blame it on Social Security and Medicare.
Failed “Welfare” Programs and the Web of Poverty
The policies that create paradigms of poverty are often remote and administered with a hidden hand.
Can We Cut Healthcare Costs Without Hurting Patients?
Keeping the u201cbest careu201d option out of the health spending equation.
NAFTA at 20: The New Spin
In essence, NAFTA advocates have been reduced to saying: 'so maybe NAFTA didn't help Mexico reduce poverty or increase wages. But hey! At least it gave it Walmart, Costcos, …
What Is Modern Monetary Theory, or “MMT”?
The essential insight of Modern Monetary Theory is that sovereign, currency-issuing countries are only constrained by real limits.
The GOP Knows Power
Todayu2019s Republican Party doesnu2019t believe in democracy, at least not when an election is decided by the votes of blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and young urban whites comfortable with multiculturalism.
Dispelling the Myth of Clean, Green Biomass Power
How did something that emits more greenhouse gases than coal come to be incentivized as ‘green’ energy?