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How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – and What to Do About It
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.

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Time to Send the Crony Banksters to Jail
This morning, in one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S. history, a federal grand jury indicted SAC Capital Advisors, a major hedge fund worth $15 billion dollars, …

Mismeasuring Our Economy: Why the GDP is Not Useful
The GDP is the most commonly cited economic metric but it doesn't tell us what we need to know.

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Death by Corporation, Part II: Companies as Cancer Cells
Many corporations work like tumor cells for the relentless destruction of the environment.

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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.

Bay Area Service Workers Up in Arms
Twelve AT&T Park concession workers were arrested in an act of civil disobedience on June 18.

Will Marijuana Farming in Mendocino County, California, Lead America to Pot?
Truthout interviews Doug Fine about the issues covered in his book ‘Too High to Fail.’

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The Nominees to the National Labor Relations Board Deserve Confirmation: As I See It
It is almost impossible to understand why a small agency like the National Labor Relations Board would be the object of attacks.

Global Power Project: Banking on Influence With Bank of America
Bank of America is an influential institution in the media, military industrial complex, think tanks, chemical companies and government circles.

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Economy of the Squeegee: Carwasheros Organizing Across the Country
Can the carwasheros, who are organizing across the country, lead the next wave of alt-labor insurgency? A conversation with Adam Kader of ARISE Chicago.