Austerity

The mainstream media play an important public relations role in presenting a positive picture of austerity.

High frequency trading utilizes new technologies to create an economy of speed that employs mathematics and physics to generate global markets that are neither transparent nor able to be …

The NDAA for 2014 will effectively authorize indefinite surveillance of everyone.

Dean Baker: Medicare and Social Security are safe from austerity hawks - for now. Time to raise a toast, then switch from defense to offense.

The vast majority of our fellow citizens demand a deep change while the majority of their political ‘representatives’ are apparently dead set on pursuing the same course: the self-defeating …

Austerity can inflict long-term damage on people's pockets, psyches, livelihoods and lives.

The case, Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, challenged the biotechnology company's existing patents on two genes associated with high risks of breast cancer, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Modern mass movements in the last 100 years have proven that collective nonviolent resistance across many segments of society is the most effective means for change. The rule of …

Like the totalitarianisms of old, the financialization of life is ultimately directed by and benefits a tiny minority.

Rahm Emanuelu2019s actions in Chicago also mimic neoliberal policies that are playing out in other cities across the US.