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US Higher Education: The New “Treasure Island” for Investors
Education “reform” is threatening to gut and loot US universities, while the fact that American democracy has been devolving into oligarchy is not a serious enough matter to address …
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The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The human species must acknowledge that any future that allows us to retain our humanity will jettison capitalism, patriarchy and white supremacy - and be based on an ecological …
First Wall Street Criminal Confession in a Generation … Still No One in Jail
Bill Black: SAC Capital Advisors pleads guilty to insider trading, but owner Steven Cohen has yet to face criminal prosecution.
Bill Moyers: Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is deliberately shrouded in secrecy, a trade deal powerful people, including President Obama, don't want you to know about.
The Tea Party Setting: A Longer View
Is there any hope for relief from this bleak formula? Part of the answer depends upon whether at some point the veil of denial begins to shred.
US Political Dysfunction and Capitalism’s Withdrawal
The classic problems of early, rapid capitalist industrialization are obvious daily in the new centers.
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November 5 Vote in Washington Tests Future of GMOs, Capitalism and Climate Change
News and funding is coming in on both sides of the long-heated debate around an initiative to require labeling of genetically modified foods and agricultural products.
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Mondragón and the System Problem
The bankruptcy declaration of Mondragu00f3n Corporation's major subsidiary, Fagor Electrodomu00e9sticos Group, illustrates the need for large-scale cooperatives to go beyond competition in the existing economic system and begin to …
Lawsuit: NSA Can’t Detect Satire
In lawsuit filed against agencies, Public Citizen argues that attempts to stop production of parody merchandise are inconsistent with First Amendment.
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Stop the Cruelest Cuts!
Republicans would rather pad the wallets of the wealthy elite than put food on the tables of America's most needy and vulnerable.