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Labor Unions’ Fight for the 99 Percent Goes Beyond Raising Campaign Dollars
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Protesting provisions of Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard …
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Two Heads Aren’t Always Better Than One
The corporate propensity for rationalizing the irrational in the pursuit of profit appears to be boundless. Consider J.R. Simplot, a giant agribusiness conglomerate whose phosphate mining operations in Idaho …
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Gender Gap
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Ten Reasons the JOBS Act Is an Insane Race to the Bottom
The JOBS Act is insane on many levels. It creates an extraordinarily criminogenic environment in which securities fraud will become even more out of control. One of the forms …
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Paul Ryan’s Religion of Convenience
On Thursday, Rep. Paul Ryan strayed from the current Republican mantra when he said he “respectfully disagrees” with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). What Ryan disagrees with is …
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Our Reputation Abroad
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Non-Tribal Research Studies of American Indians Erode Tribal Sovereignty
San Francisco - For Native Americans in need of good research on their persistent health issues, the troubling case of Arizona’s tiny Havasupai Indian tribe “put genetic research on the …
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Public Outcry in New York Over Fracking Breaks State Record
A four-year-old hydraulic fracturing study by New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has broken a state record: It has drawn more public reaction than any other issue in the agency's history. …
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Supreme Court to Hear Arizona Immigration Case This Week
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. The US Supreme Court Building. (Photo: matt.h.wade) Washington — Immigration politics will hit the Supreme Court this …
Shareholders Say No to Citigroup CEO Pay: A Model for Fighting Crony Capitalism
A Citibank branch in New York, February 23, 2009. (Photo: JB Reed / The New York Times) Last week, the country saw one of the fruits of the Dodd-Frank …