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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 often …
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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 economic …
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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 run …
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From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock
The aestheticization of shock, difference and glamour misappropriates social consciousness.
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Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose US Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism” (2)
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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 First …
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Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York, From Niagara Falls to Manhattan
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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 a …
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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 of …
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“Unequal Protection”: Corporations Go Global
(Image: JR / Truthout) People, at the time, generally weren’t all that concerned about the fate of the world’s dolphins. It was the last week of June …