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The Problem With Citizens United Is Not Corporate Personhood
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Florida Rep. Ted Deutch introduced a constitutional amendment in December to overturn Citizens United, one of five …
Turning America Into Pottersville
For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s – when blacks “knew their place,” women were “in the kitchen” …
Time Is on Our Side: The Survival of Social Security
As we approach budget time we can look forward to another burst of handwringing by the Washington elites, who will once again tell us about the need to cut …
The Foreclosure Crisis: A Government in Denial
As we start the New Year, the executive branch and Congress continue to pretend the gravest risk to our economy and social stability does not exist: the ongoing foreclosure …
The Straits of America
New York - Macroeconomic indicators for the United States have been better than expected for the last few months. Job creation has picked up. Indicators for manufacturing and services …
New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls
Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the …
Fukushima’s Owner Adds Insult to Injury – Claims Radioactive Fallout Isn’t Theirs
In the amoral milieu of the corporate bottom line, you can't blame Tokyo Electric Power Co. for trying. Tepco owns the six-reactor Fukushima complex that was wrecked …
Leaderless Global Governance
(Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) Cambridge - The world economy is entering a new phase, in which achieving global cooperation will become …
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What 70 Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War
A member of the 214th Reconnaissance Group flies a Predator aircraft drone in support of ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson, March 10, …
Ron Paul’s False Founding Narrative
Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman from Texas who has topped 20 percent in the first two Republican contests, is fond of claiming that the U.S. Constitution was written “to …