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Short-Changing the Nation: Retirement Taxes Shield the Affluent
For almost 40 years, starting in 1974, Uncle Sam has generously subsidized retirement accounts for the golden years. Annual contributions are commonly tax-free. Gains accumulate tax-deferred, usually for decades. …
Why You Should Still Care About Chicago’s NATO Summit
Chicago, Illinois. (Photo: Merrick Brown) When it was announced in March that the G-8 summit would not take place in Chicago as scheduled, but instead Camp David, Occupy …
The Globalization of Hollow Politics
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort.The offices of the French Socialist Party in the Cergy suburb of Paris, Feb. 24, 2012. …
BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill
Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the …
Labor Unions’ Fight for the 99 Percent Goes Beyond Raising Campaign Dollars
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Protesting provisions of Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard …
Non-Tribal Research Studies of American Indians Erode Tribal Sovereignty
San Francisco - For Native Americans in need of good research on their persistent health issues, the troubling case of Arizona’s tiny Havasupai Indian tribe “put genetic research on the …
Shareholders Say No to Citigroup CEO Pay: A Model for Fighting Crony Capitalism
A Citibank branch in New York, February 23, 2009. (Photo: JB Reed / The New York Times) Last week, the country saw one of the fruits of the Dodd-Frank …
More Than One Third of All US Executions Took Place in Texas
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the …
Word Order: The Internet as the Toy With a Tin Ear
But in which language does one speak to a machine, and what can be expected by way of response? The questions arise from the accelerating data-streams out of which …
Class Warfare on Two Fronts: From Afghanistan to Middle America, the Untold Story of Sgt. Bales
This past Thursday, a Modesto, California, man whose house was in foreclosure shot and killed the Sheriff's deputy and the locksmith who came to evict him from his condominium …