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Neoliberalism Plays Key Role in Economically Forced Mexican Migration to US
Truthout talks with David Bacon, author of The Right to Stay Home, about how much of the Mexican migration to the United States comes about in dire response to …
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Border Security Plans Secure Contractors’ Profits
While current immigration policy “reform” proposals enthuse neither immigrant communities nor labor, they represent a bonanza for private defense contractors, which are lobbying with millions of dollars for militarization …
Five Years Later
As Iu2019ve gotten older, Iu2019ve become more and more convinced that we get where we are because of luck as much as anything else, in the business world as …
Money Wars: A New Hope To Destroy A New Death Star
In this parody of Star Wars, Episode 4, A New Hope - It is a period of class war.
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TPP in the USA Is Why We Occupy
William Rivers Pitt: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the point of why Occupy came to exist in the first place.
Economic Update: Workers Fight Back
Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update and responds to listeners in this segment.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Asks Business Groups to Help Avoid Another Economic Crisis, and More
President Obama raised the pressure on Congressional Republicans, and asked business groups to help avoid another economic crisis.
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Here’s a Capitalist Who Doesn’t Understand Capitalism
The idea that wealthy business owners are the sole source of jobs in our economy is just one big lie.
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New Rule Could Shed Light on CEO-Worker Pay Gap
The SEC to meet Wednesday to consider a new rule mandated three years ago under Dodd-Frank that would require companies to disclose the ratio between a CEO's compensation and …
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction From Derivatives
Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system.