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Joe Stiglitz Blasts Our Wealthy-Coddling Tax System for Increasing the Returns on Rent-Seeking
Yes Smith deconstructs Joseph Stiglitz's argument for why the American people should lighten taxes for the wealthy.
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“I Jumped to Save My Body”: Walmart Slammed Over Nicaragua Stabbings and Bangladesh Fire
Survivors of violent attacks overseas at Walmart factories demand justice from the retail conglomerate.
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“Going Extinct Is Genocide”: Lakota Elders Tour to Raise Awareness About Struggle
As the US encroached upon indigenous territory, the government never allowed native women to negotiate.
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Inmates Rising: Worsening Gitmo Mass Hunger Strike in Prisoners’ Own Words
Desperate prisoners refusing food at Guantanamo Bay since the beginning of February have vowed to ‘strike to death,’ according to lawyers' notes obtained by Truthout.
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Will a Legal Defender of Terror Suspects Die of Cancer in Prison?
Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is a martyr, says Chris Hedges.
Deficits Are Bad and the Sun Goes Around the Earth
Dean Baker: A new study shows we have little reason to fear higher debt levels.
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The GOP Big Tent
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Sacrificing Social Security
Seeds of Change: Shifting National Agricultural Policies
The need for us to become the policy-makers to create a just and sustainable food supply chain is urgent, because in the hands of the US government it has …
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Vieques Vive La Lucha Continua 10 Years After the Bombing Stopped
Ten years ago May 1, the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico and their supporters from around the world defeated the most powerful military machine ever, through mass civil disobedience …