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Stop Them From Eating My Town
We must break up the modern-day monopolists and return opportunity and wealth to local communities and small businesses.
Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts
Why is it that Americans have come to believe that tax cuts are good for everyone?
Bring My Job Home!
“Free trade” is a guaranteed ticket to the poorhouse for any nation, and the evidence is overwhelming.
DUKES v. WAL-MART (short)
What America Has Given Up for Ten Years of Bush Tax Cuts
The cost of Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was, as estimated to be roughly $2.5 trillion through 2010.
“Unequal Protection”: The People’s Masters
(cdrummbks / flickr) Fast on the heels of the passage and then Supreme Court interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, a new type of feudalism emerged in America …
US Uncut New York City Teach-In at Bank of America (Video)
US Uncut, a new decentralized direct action group, held teach-ins inside two Bank of America branches in New York City on Saturday. The classes were held to discuss the …
Unequal Protection: The Early Role of Corporations in America
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Jane Anne Morris is a corporate anthropologist and writer in Madison, Wisconsin, and she is affiliated with the Program on Corporations, Law, …
Unequal Protection: Jefferson Versus the Corporate Aristocracy
Thomas Jefferson. (Image: Gilbert Stuart / cliff1066™; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although the first shots were fired in 1775 and the Declaration was signed in 1776, …
Unequal Protection: The Boston Tea Party Revealed
The battle between the small businessmen of America and the huge multinational East India Company actually began in Pennsylvania, according to Hewes.