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Dean Baker | The Smart Boys: Larry Summers and Jeff Bezos
Dean Baker: The paeans to the genius of both men say a great deal about the quality of public debate in elite circles.
Truthout TV Interviews Victoria Law About Hunger Strikes at Pelican Bay State Prison
Victoria Law updates Ted Asregadoo about the hunger strikes at Pelican Bay State Prison in California.
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America’s Disappeared
Chris Hedges: Unable to defend themselves from police or poverty, many prisoners are sucked back into the system.
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California Lawmakers Demand Federal Investigation of Offshore Fracking
With fracking operations to extract fossil fuels off the California coast stepping up, lawmakers in that state are demanding to know why the federal government is approving such operations …
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Death by Corporation: America’s Corporate Deathstar
Instead of protecting US citizens, the Obama administration is enabling the ultimate corporate “Deathstar.”
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Safety?
Copyright Universal Uclick.
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NSA Watchdog
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Is $15 an Hour a Fair Wage for Serving Fast Food?
Fast food workers in other countries earn the equivalent of $15 an hour and enjoy benefits, yet hamburgers cost no more.
We Don’t Have Life Without Land: Holding Ground in Honduras
On vivid display there is the search for solutions to the problems addressed in this Harvesting Justice series: the piracy of land, indigenous territories, agriculture, food systems and the …
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Law to Clean Up “Nuisances” Costs Innocent People Their Homes
Over the last two decades, forfeitures have evolved into a booming business for police agencies across the country, from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to small-town sheriff's offices.