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Laura Flanders | The 1% Should Be Afraid: The New Norm in the Workplace Is Unstable
Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …
AOL’s CEO Is Not the Only One Who Should Be Shamed
Laura Flanders: Not long ago it was the Great Recession, today it's Obamacare that's serving as a convenient scapegoat for employers seeking to tighten the screws on their workers.
Tapering of Quantitative Easing Is Throwing Emerging Markets Into Chaos – and Big Banks Are Getting Richer
Despite no real economic recovery, the Fed is winding down quantitative easing, throwing developing countries' economies into chaos.
Job Killer? How Media Spin Got Obamacare Wrong – and Why Single-Payer Could Cure Its Actual Flaws
Obamacare is a job killer u2014 that was the message across the media this week after the release of a new Congressional Budget Office report about the Affordable Care …
Economic Update: Public vs. Private Enterprise
Updates on economic democracy from Jackson, Mississippi to Marseilles, France; credit card scandals; phony labels for chicken; overcharging inmates for calls; and more.
Is the TPP Dead? Have We Won?
An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Internet Companies Are Fighting to Restore Public Trust, and More
In the wake of the NSA spying scandal, corporations like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook wanted to release details on internet surveillance, and more.
Easier to Vilify Team Owners than Question Society’s Complicity
The entire NFL has been involved in systematic denial of the long-term effects of game-induced head traumas.
Finance Is Super Rational About Profits, Irrational About Global Economy
Economics professor Heiner Flassbeck says the “market” is good for making high profits from international exchange rates; the only rational solution for a healthy economy is take exchange rates …
Wallace Shawn on Artistic Solidarity: As Glenn Greenwald Can’t Return to US, I Took My Play to Him
The renowned playwright and actor Wallace “Wally” Shawn has just returned from Brazil, where he gave a special performance of his play, “The Designated Mourner,” to journalist Glenn Greenwald.