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Unequal Regulation
(Image: JR / Truthout) There’s a side to regulation that most people don’t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the …
Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights
(Image: JR / Truthout) The statistic in this chapter’s epigraph is sobering indeed. It says corporations sought protection under the Fourteenth Amendment a hundred times more often …
Unequal Protection: Corporate Control of Politics
(Image: JR / Truthout) During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run …
From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock
The aestheticization of shock, difference and glamour misappropriates social consciousness.
Unequal Protection: Protecting Corporate Liars
(Image: JR / Truthout) The first direct shot across the bow of the doctrine of a corporation’s “right to lie” by using its “personhood” to claim First …
Unequal Protection: The Court Takes the Presidency
(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted yet another gift to corporate power—and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of …
“Unequal Protection”: Corporations Go Global
(Image: JR / Truthout) People, at the time, generally weren’t all that concerned about the fate of the world’s dolphins. It was the last week of June …
Wal-Mart Is Not a Person
“We the People” now explicitly means “We the Citizens, Corporations, and Churches” with a few of the richest humans who run them thrown in.
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Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country
Rebooting The American Dream Introduction: Back to the Future Chapter One: Bring My Job Home! Chapter Two: Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts …
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.