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Economy & Labor

Economy & Labor

Why Do The Koch Brothers Want to End Public Education?

by
Robert Greenwald
August 15, 2011
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Economy & Labor

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…
by
Thom Hartmann,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
August 9, 2011
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News
Economy & Labor

Studies Show Regulation Protects Health and Safety, Encourages Job Creation

Three recently published studies discuss the relationship between regulations and economic development. One study focuses on the job-creation potential of an individual environmental rule, and another touts the…
by
Staff,
OMB Watch
August 5, 2011
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Economy & Labor

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…
by
Thom Hartmann,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
August 2, 2011
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Economy & Labor

From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock

The aestheticization of shock, difference and glamour misappropriates social consciousness.
by
Henry A. Giroux,
Truthout
July 27, 2011
Truthout
Economy & Labor

Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose US Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism” (2)

by
Amy Goodman
July 26, 2011
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Economy & Labor

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…
by
Thom Hartmann,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
July 26, 2011
Truthout
Economy & Labor

Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York, From Niagara Falls to Manhattan

by
Amy Goodman
July 25, 2011
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Economy & Labor

Jeremy Scahill: Behind the CIA’s Secret Somalia Operations

Keith Olbermann talks with Jeremy Scahill of The Nation, also a ‘Countdown’ contributor, about a secret CIA site in Somalia that trains Somali agents in counterterrorism efforts against…
by
Jeremy Scahill
July 22, 2011
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Excerpt
Economy & Labor

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…
by
Thom Hartmann,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
July 18, 2011
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