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Unequal Protection: Jefferson Versus the Corporate Aristocracy
Thomas Jefferson. (Image: Gilbert Stuart / cliff1066™; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although the first shots were fired in 1775 and the Declaration was signed in 1776, …
Unequal Protection: The Boston Tea Party Revealed
The battle between the small businessmen of America and the huge multinational East India Company actually began in Pennsylvania, according to Hewes.
Unequal Protection: The Corporate Conquest of America
While corporations can live forever, exist in several different places at the same time, change their identities at will, and even chop off parts of themselves or sprout new …
Unequal Protection: The Deciding Moment?
Part of the American Revolution was about to be lost a century after it had been fought.
Unequal Protection: Banding Together for the Common Good
This new corporate entity was, of course, not something that was physically real; it was an agreement, a so-called legal fiction authorized by a government.
Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy
Over the past century, corporations have repeatedly asserted that they are, in fact, “persons” and therefore eligible for the human rights protections of the Bill of Rights -- while …
As GOP Appears to Win Extension of Bush Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls for “War on Poverty“
Rev. Jesse Jackson describes our current moment as one of ‘exceptional poverty’ and is calling on President Obama to hold a bipartisan meeting on hunger and poverty.
Eleven Ways to Rebuild Our Country
Alexander Hamilton’s strategic proposals for American manufacturing built the greatest industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen -- before they were abandoned.
The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism
We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …
Financial Reform Makes Headway; Jobs and Social Security in Jeopardy
Two critical Wall Street reforms, once declared dead by U.S. megabanks, are suddenly close to Congressional approval.