Truthout
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The Voting Dilemma
Soon it will be presidential voting time again in the U.S.. That four year cycle comes to us with the regularity of a returning comet, accompanied by a shroud …
Angela Davis and Tim Wise: Capitalism, Privatization and Hope
On this edition, we hear Davis and Wise discuss privatization, the economy, and other critical issues of our times.
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Joe Paterno’s Shame
The truth is that Joe Paterno was more powerful at Penn State than any athletic director, more powerful even than the university's president.
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Banksters Take Us to the Brink
Moyers and Winship: You wonder why the banksters still roam free, like gunslingers in a Wild West town without a sheriff.
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From Penn State to JPMorgan Chase and Barclays: Destroying Higher Education, Savaging Children and Extinguishing Democracy
While the Freeh report reveals that the cover-up at the top of the Penn State administration
Kucinich Explains the LIBOR Scandal
What has emerged from the Barclayu2019s Bank inquiry is evidence that banks may have in fact been deliberately manipulating Libor rates for years.
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The Truth About Obama’s Tax Proposal (and the Lies the Regressives are Telling About It)
To hear the media report it, President Obama is proposing a tax increase on wealthy Americans. Thatu2019s misleading at best.
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Agribusiness Genetically Tampering With Our Food
Jim Hightower: What are we to do about corporate powers that are so avaricious and arrogant that they're willing to tamper with our food supply, our kids' minds and …
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Suffocating Austerity: The West’s Folly in Greece Repeats Old Patterns
The troika's attack on Greek sovereignty recalls the devastation of the Fourth Crusade, but there is an honorable way to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
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The GOP’s Crime Against Voters
The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities the main …