Truthout
News Analysis
Social Security and Medicare on the Chopping Block
Despite the many expressed fears that the Apocalypse awaits us and the alarmist predictions that we are about to go over the proverbial cliff when it comes to funding …
Real Remedies for the Foreclosure Crisis Exist: The Game-Changing Implications of Bain v. MERS
MERS is the electronic smokescreen that allowed banks to build their securitization Ponzi scheme without worrying about details like ownership and chain of title.
How America’s Falling Share of Global College Graduates Threatens Future Economic Competitiveness
The United Statesu2019 share of global college graduates fell substantially in the first decade of the 21st century and stands to drop even more by 2020 as developing economies …
The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class
This study asks Who are the the worldu2019s 1 percent power elite? And to what extent do they operate in unison for their own private gains over benefits for …
Life on Mars? Searching for Signs In the Cosmos, and on Earth
Forty years ago, David Bowie asked the musical question, u201cIs there life on Mars?u201d Bowieu2019s song embodied an escapist sensibility, a longing for life elsewhere to break the doldrums …
Revealed: Romney Campaign’s Attempts to Deny Paul Ryan’s Insider Trading Don’t Add Up
Team Romney wants you to believe Ryan didnu2019t really profit from privileged information. Donu2019t buy it.
The Billionaires Bill Of Rights
Billionaire corporate interests and other well financed anti-labor forces are waging a major drive to stifle the political voice of workers and their unions in California that is certain …
Ignore the Deficit Hawks: Social Security Is Easy to Fix
On the 77th anniversary of Social Security, we're celebrating what has made the program so important and why it remains vital today. Jeff Madrick explains why Social Security's so-called …
The Atomized America of Late Capitalism
Americau2019s late-stage capitalism, built upon the imagined glories of global empire and the deep deceptions of personalized propaganda, has created a nation that has lost touch with genuine human …
Corporations Try to Kill Community Colleges
Within a month I had free child care from the revolutionary Family Resource Center at City College of San Francisco, a small federal grant which covered my books and …