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Dysfunctional Banking Sector Helps Keep Iraq in Economic Shambles
Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers Baghdad - The shelves are packed with imported goods at Baghdad's thriving Warda supermarket, and customers can barely move their shopping carts in the narrow …

Blunt: GOP’s Answer to All Our Problems: Tax Cuts!

Restoring Government, of, by and for the People
Rescinding corporate personhood is the first step toward a larger vision of reclaiming and reinvigorating democracy around the world.

If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the Terms of a New Economy
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although the increasingly unrestrained marketplace that Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis warn of makes it hard for many companies to emphasize community …

Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power (2)
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The Need to Relocalize Our Economies
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) For some people, particularly the young and the old, the local mall or big-box retailer or superstore is an important part of …

“Corporations Are Not People”: Activists Push Amendment to Revoke “Corporate Personhood” (2)
After an Election Day that saw a number of wins for progressive causes nationwide, activists opposed to "corporate personhood" — the notion that corporations have equal rights to individuals …

End Corporate Personhood
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Arizona changed its law after 1886 so that the word person would include nonliving as well as living legal entities: “‘Person’ includes …

The Story of Broke
TRANSCRIPT These last few years, I’ve had to get a lot more careful about how I spend my paycheck. Everyone has. Like I’m eating out less often, holding back …

Capitalists and Americans Speak Out for Community
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although we have much that we might change about our government and business, it’s clear that we also have a great and …