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Consumerism and Its Discontents
The US millennial generation and their elders are wrestling with the fundamental edict of capitalism: Buy and you shall be happy.
Economic Update: A Journalist’s Perspective
Updates on changing US retirement ages, Pope Francis's anti-capitalism, inequality inside countries, unionists march in Rome.
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Resistance in Ohio, Fracking’s Dumping Ground
Ohio has become a fracking dumping ground, with 179 wells absorbing more than 1 billion gallons of hazardous wastewater from the process from several states, and now legislators and …
Teach Your Children Well: Don’t Play Monopoly
You don't have to own Park Place to be a winner.
Economic Update: Measuring Capitalism’s Results
Updates on Google caught evading taxes, food stamp nation, public higher ed crisis.
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Henry A. Giroux | Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to close 54 public schools is one more example of a neoliberal system at work.
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To Desire to Make Capitalism Moral Is, in Reality, to Demand Its Suppression
Moralizing capitalism, what does this mean and is it conceivable?
The American Dream Is Dead; Long Live the New Dream
A new American dream could rise from the mess left by globalization, off-shoring and austerity.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Report Charts Capitalism’s Cancerous Spread Into Social Programs, and More
In today's On the News segment: The National Rifle Association's new president will lead the charge against new stricter gun laws in several states, and more.
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A Hard Day’s Labor for $4.76: The Offshore Assembly Industry in Haiti
As we mourn the deaths of the Bangladesh factory collapse, we explore the implications of sweatshop labor as a model for development.