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Postal Hunger Strike Over, Victory Declared
Five Postal workers completing a hunger strike in protest of a reduced work week broke their strike and declared a
Economic Update: People, Power and False Economics
Updates and discussion of pensions and guns, fiscal cliff, charitable tax deductions, Mondragon, the environment, and prison economics.
Wal-Mart Targeted Over Corruption and Labor Practices
Global investigations, protests and strikes highlight need for change at world's biggest private employer.
Too Big to Prosecute and It’s Obama’s Fiscal Cliff
Bill Black: Criminal money laundering goes unpunished and Fiscal Cliff was created by Obama.
Truthout Radio: Ellen Brown on the “Fiscal Cliff”
Truthout Radio host, Ted Asregadoo, speaks to Ellen Brown about the
Beyond Super-Elites and Conspicuous Consumption: Real Ecological Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Although there is dispute about the precise dimensions of the problem, prudence alone suggests the importance of confronting basic ecological limits.
Grappling With Phantoms: The Financial Cliff, the War on Christmas, and Other Dim Tidings of Political Disconnect
As we draw near to the Winter Solstice and the days shorten, one's thoughts are drawn inward.
Economic Update: Conditions of the Working Class
Updates on Newtown, CT. school shooting, global warming and the CIA, Hostess abuses workers' pensions, and growing gap between CEOs' and workers' pay.
Thom Hartmann on the News: Michigan May Have Passed an Even More Undemocratic Law Than Right-to-Work
In this week's On the News Segment: For the second time in a week, a mass shooting has rocked the nation; right-to-work may not be the most undemocratic law …
Dean Baker: The Biggest Myth in Obama-GOP Spending Showdown Is the “Fiscal Cliff” Itself
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. As negotiations continue between the White House and House Speaker John Boehner, leading economist Dean …