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Don’t Buy the Spin: How Cutting the Pentagon’s Budget Could Boost the Economy
Should the enormous US military budget be cut? Many who would like to protect the military from the budget knife raise economic arguments to make their case: Won’t cutting …
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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 …