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NAFTA on Steroids: The TransPacific Partnership and Global Neoliberalism
Can democracy save capitalism, as it did in the 1930s, when it provided popular pressure to force the elite to accept changes otherwise resisted by capital, Cliff DuRand asks.
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Chris Hedges | Murdering the Wretched of the Earth
Chris Hedges: Our enemy is not radical Islam. It is global capitalism.
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Money and the Corporate Media Are Gagging Democracy
“This the truth of [election] 2012: money beat money,” write John Nichols and Robert McChesney.
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Detroit Residents on Bankruptcy – We Have No Democracy!
More than half of Michigan's 1.4 million black residents now live under rule by unelected emergency managers.
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A Frenzy Over the “Female Dollar“
Paul Krugman: The prospect that Janet Yellen might become the next head of the Fed has driven the right into a frenzy.
John Nichols and Robert McChesney: Progressives Ask for Too Little, Not Too Much in Age of Plutocratic Rule
Truthout speaks with John Nichols and Robert McChesney about their new book, “Dollarocracy.”
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Economist Richard Wolff talks about battling rampant capitalism and fighting for economic justice.
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Is $15 an Hour a Fair Wage for Serving Fast Food?
Fast food workers in other countries earn the equivalent of $15 an hour and enjoy benefits, yet hamburgers cost no more.
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We’re All Being Poisoned by Deregulated Capitalism
Capitalism is unraveling the physical and mental well being of this country.
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Life at Louisiana’s Toxic Sinkhole: An Eco-Disaster Continues With No End in Sight
A year after a toxic sinkhole caused by one of Texas Brine's salt caverns either drove neighborhood homeowners in Louisiana out of their houses or left them with ongoing …