Truthout
Economy & Labor
Economic Update: Capitalism, Inequality and Martin Luther King
This episode looks at Detroit's water shut-offs, corporations prioritizing profit at people's expense, US Senators making money, and more.
The Unmentionable Trade Deficit Doesn’t Appear Again
This is money that is creating demand elsewhere, not in the United States.
That Film About Money
What is the real value of a dollar? What do banks do with our deposits?
The Brick Wall of Poverty
I do not wish to be one of the people that many deem as someone who may fail simply because of their own failure to push themselves.
Keeping Faith in Democracy
“Democracy has been meant to remove the artificial constraints, poverty is the huge artificial constraint on human thought and action,” says author Marilynne Robinson.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The US Is Number One in Violence, and More
In today's On the News segment: Violence is one of the only reasons the US finds itself at the top of any charts, and more.
Economic Update: Economic Realities
This episode covers updates on Walmart shifts medical insurance costs onto US, payday loans, US child poverty and Obama versus workers' needs.
Shifting Syria Threats
How do you assess disproportionate harm when this entire assault on Syria is disproportionate and premised on undefined threats?
Is Mass Capitalism the Wave of the Future?
Mulay offers a fresh approach to America's myriad economic problems.
If Only the Washington Post Could Get Its Hand on the Social Security Trustees Report
To those in the real world, people losing their jobs and losing their homes, would be the big story.