Truthout
Op-Ed
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TARP Is Over, but the Bailouts Will Continue Until the Big Banks Are Broken Up – and Washington Knows It
The biggest banks keep getting bigger because they can borrow more cheaply than smaller banks.
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Big Oil, Big Ketchup and “The Assassination of Hugo Chavez“
Clearly, Chavez had to be taught a lesson about the etiquette of dealings with Big Oil.
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The Progressive Caucus: Enabling Obama’s Rightward Moves?
Norman Solomon: We need Progressive Caucus members who are progressives first and loyal Democrats second, not the other way around.
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America’s New Killing Field: Murder-Suicide on a Global Scale
It now seems that America's newest war zone is Earth itself as fracking and the pursuit of profit puts the entire planet on the brink of destruction.
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The Founding Fathers Versus The Gun Nuts
Sorry, gun nuts, youu2019re on the wrong side of our Founding Fathers.
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Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary
Dean Baker: The problem is the fact that there is no way on earth that Mr. Obama would select Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary.
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New Year’s Resolutions for the NRA
Martha Rosenberg gives a couple of New Years Resolutions the National Riffle Association might want to pick up in 2013.
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John Kerry: “The Name of the Game is Different Now”
The cashing in of political debts, Washington's peculiar political culture, and Republicans eager for another chance to return Scott Brown, once the bankers' senator, to the Senate conspire to …
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On the Merits of Reading Fahrenheit 451
It is uncanny how accurately fiction can predict reality. Ray Bradbury's book is understood by many to be a commentary on censorship. It's not. In Fahrenheit 451 it's not …
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Late Stage Capitalism and the Shame Haunted Life: You Can’t Kill Trauma With a Gun
In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one's true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus …