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JPMorgan Chase CEO Dimon Summoned Before Senate Committee
Click here to support news free of corporate influence by donating to Truthout. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)Washington …
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Knowledge Work Under Cognitive Capitalism
What do the Austrian-born, self-styled “social ecologist” and management theorist Peter Drucker and the Italian autonomist Marxist scholar Paolo Virno have in common? At first blush, little beyond their …
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After Fighting the Taliban, Soldiers Return Home to Face Attacks from For-Profit Colleges and Their Lobbyists
After risking their lives abroad, American veterans are returning home to a new set of dangers. For-profit college companies are increasingly targeting veterans and their education benefits as a …
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JPMorgan and US-Europe Banking Contagion: Is Another Global Financial Crisis Brewing?
Late last week, the financial markets were rocked with the announcement that the biggest, and heretofore assumed most stable US bank, J.P. Morgan, lost $2 billion in recent months. …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Judge Rules NDAA “Indefinite Detention” Provision Unconstitutional, and More
In today's On the News segment: college graduates see high unemployment, nuclear contamination fears in Japan increase, a Washington lawmaker is barring women from an abortion bill hearing, JPMorgan …
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Did the Norwegians Have a Revolution?
For the better part of a century, some visionaries have been trying to break out of the dominant belief that there are only two means of forcing change: reform …
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan
The dog that didn’t bark this week, let alone bite, was the President’s response to JP Morgan Chase’s bombshell admission of losing more than $2 billion in risky derivative …
Are JPMorgan’s Losses a Canary in a Coal Mine?
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. That sound of shattered glass you’ve been hearing is the iconic portrait of Jamie Dimon …
Preying on the Poor: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker …
Truthout Contributor Richard Wolff on Challenging Capitalism in His New Book, “Occupy the Economy“
(Photo: david_shankbone / Flickr) Matt Renner: In your introduction to the book, you discuss New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's “cleanliness” excuse for clearing the original Occupy Wall Street …