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Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for the “Next Great Revolution”
I urge that you sit back and say, am I up to that or am I just doing politics, or am I really up to that. Now the that …
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Will the Obama Admininistration Prosecute the Big Banks for LIBOR Manipulation?
UN financial adviser and law professor Michael Greenberger says with Wall Street's embace of Romney, Obama has nothing to lose prosecuting the big banks for the Libor fraud.
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The Selling of American Democracy: The Perfect Storm
The greatest concentration of wealth in more than a century u2014 courtesy u201ctrickle-downu201d economics, Reagan and Bush tax cuts, and the demise of organized labor. Combined with unlimited …
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California Gold Rush? Righting Underwater Mortgages
A public condemnation of San Bernardino's underwater mortgages could convincingly model the benefits of principal write-downs.
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The Local Beer Boom: Craft Breweries Have Doubled Their Share of the US Market Since 2004
And now, for some happy talk u2014 by which I mean a non-corporate, “little-d” democratic, and altogether pleasurable economic development that's spreading across our country. In a word: beer.
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An Argument for Human Life and Values in Greece and Everywhere
Greece needs to embrace a new political thinking that de-fetishizes the rule of money.
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To Disagree Is to Be Put on the Enemies List
Howard Zinn: As the economic situation of the universities becomes more precarious and faculties shrink, it becomes easier to get rid of undesirables, whether political dissidents or just troublesome …
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Economic Update: What Are the Social Costs of Capitalist Mega-Corporations?
This episode provides an update on the widening LIBOR scandal and the fine Wells Fargo received for overcharging African-American and Hispanic families on their mortgages. The segment ends with …
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States Close In on Citizens United: California, Montana, and Beyond
Americans across the political spectrum agree that corporations are not people and that the promise of government of, for, and by the people must be defended. We are at …
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Is Haiti’s Reconstruction Path Paved in Gold?
More than two years since a earthquake shook Haiti to its core, and as reconstruction continues, US and Canadian mining companies make a fortune off recently discovered gold. But …