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Transnational Peoples Movements Form to Respond to Transnational Injustice
An anti-government protester defaces a picture of Hosni Mubarak. (Photo: Antonello Mangano / Flickr) In an era where multinational corporations and linked international security networks exert increasing …
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Banks Successfully Lobbied for Weaker Bailout Repayment Rules So They Could Pay Bonuses
When the nation’s biggest banks were bailed out in 2008 via the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, the money came with a few (very loose) strings, including restrictions …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Picking Up Some Crucial Support, and More…
In today's On the News segment: the Occupy Wall Street movement is picking up some crucial support, Bernanke issues a warning to Congress, a top Al Qaeda leader was …
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Occupy This! TV Interview On the Economy and the Occupy Wall Street Protests (2)
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The Moral Question
We dodged another shut-down bullet, but only until November 18. That’s when the next temporary bill to keep the government going runs out. House Republicans want more budget cuts …
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Occupy This! TV Interview on the Economy and the Occupy Wall Street Protests
The other day we spoke to RT Television about our search for the #OccupyWallStreet demonstrations in a lower Manhattan that almost felt as if it were under military siege. …
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The Impossible Ideology of Free Trade
Why everything you think you know about economics is probably wrong (Part 2) Absolute and comparative advantage – the faulty premise behind the ideology of free trade …
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us Have Failed
Now he tells us. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to the nation's unemployment rate as a “national crisis,” a depressing if obvious fact of …
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How Baseball Explains Modern Racism
Despite recent odes to “post-racial” sensibilities, persistent racial wage and unemployment gaps show that prejudice is alive and well in America. Nonetheless, that truism is often angrily denied or …
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Bahrain Court Hands Down Harsh Sentences to Doctors and Protesters
A court in Bahrain sentenced a protester to death on Thursday for killing a police officer in March, and it issued harsh prison terms to medical workers who treated …