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Romney Has Public and Private Morality Upside Down
He doesnu2019t want to regulate where regulation is necessary ... yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate - at the level of the individual.
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A US Financial Transaction Tax: How Wall Street Can Pay for Its Mess
As we continue to suffer the consequences of the 2008-2009 global financial crash caused by casino capitalism, one idea for bringing some measure of control over speculative financial practices …
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In South America, Separating Fact From Fiction
Somehow, though, people like Mr. Paul donu2019t like to talk about events of the past century, for which we have reasonably good data; they like to talk about events …
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We Must Reduce Our Prison Population
There is probably no greater waste of our taxpayer money than the increased incarceration of our population. The state of Illinois had a prison population of 7,326 inmates …
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Why We Have a Deficit
Deficit theater is coming to DC tomorrow, with a well-funded "fiscal summit." The plot summary is that we have Deficit Trouble - Right Here In River City! so to fix it we need …
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Trayvon Martin, a Man of His Time: White Supremacy and the Murders of Young People of Color
Once again, the US black community is up in (figurative) arms about systemic white supremacy raising up (literal) arms.
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How JP Morgan Chase Has Made the Case for Breaking Up the Big Banks and Resurrecting Glass-Steagall
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the nation’s largest bank, whose chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has led Wall …
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Coddling the Ten Percent
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Another way that the rich are different from you and me is that their bankers …
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Persecution Is Not a Right
"War is peace," "freedom is slavery," "ignorance is strength." Thanks to the religious right, we can update these examples from "1984's" doublespeak to include the idea in 2012 that …
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Will Democrats Embrace “Austerity American Style”? Crash This Party and Find Out
Heard about the meeting that's being held to decide your economic future? If the answer's "no," don't feel bad: That's because you weren't invited. But Tim Geithner was. So …