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Economy
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Industry Wrote Provision That Undercuts Credit-Rating Overhaul
Industry-written criteria weakened a law meant to spur competition in the estimation of the default risks of bonds and other securities.
Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is “Off the Table”
In part two of Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay and Vijay Prashad discuss the limits imposed on questioning the roots of inequality and how those who own the majority …
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At a Crossroad: Can the Labor Movement Save Its Soul?
“At this very moment both the labor and racial justice movements stand at a crossroads in our nation’s consciousness,” writes Hasira Soul.
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America’s Foster Care System: Test Lab for Big Pharma, Cash Cow for Caretakers?
It's estimated that more than half of America's foster children are on some sort of psychiatric drug. A practice one doctor calls u201cinstitutionalized child abuse.
Austerity’s Failure in Greece: Time to Think the Unthinkable?
Further austerity can only worsen Greece's economic plight, particularly its already-catastrophic unemployment.
The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud
The concept of a do-it-yourself retirement was a fraud.
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Mass Media Helps Keep Americans in the Dark About US Foreign Policy
Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship.
The Greatest Threat to Global Food Security: Capitalism
The current Industrial mass production of food for profit is a political, economic and social crisis that has devastating effects on human health and threatens the survival of the …
ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (Part V)
Lambert Strether takes a look at Obamacare and how it is creating an imbalanced system underneath the guise of equality.
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The Wall Street Ties of Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner
If Summers is still taking big payments to speak favorably towards corporations, Americans should know about it.