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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Eight Years of Bush Cost Us Trillions of Dollars, and More
Eight years under George W. Bush cost us about $6.6 trillion dollars, and more.
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Charles Koch, Modern Robber Baron, Exposed
Charles Koch was a member of the John Birch Society at the height of their attacks on the civil rights movement.
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Fun Accounting and the Export-Import Bank
The establishment types in Washington have become really worried in recent weeks because one of their major troughs, the Export-Import Bank, may not be reauthorized by Congress.
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Why Do Banksters Get Help but Not Homeowners?
If we're serious about helping out the millions of Americans who still struggle to keep a roof over their heads, then we need to be doing a lot more …
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Tackling Inequality With Politics
Socialists must work to build mass democratic social movements and articulate an why a better world is not only possible but feasible, says Joseph M. Schwartz.
Predatory Capitalism: Old Trends and New Realities
The future of a progressive social order requires a reversal of capitalism's control over states, labor and ideology.
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China’s Wealthy Getting Richer in a Declining Economy
As the financial sector grows and liberalizes even further, returns to finance and other lucrative industries will only increase, as sectors with lower returns maintain wages barely in keeping …
Parecon: Envisioning a Life Beyond Capitalism
ROAR sits down with Michael Albert, author of ‘Realizing Hope’ and editor of Znet, to explore the idea of participatory economics.
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Does the Economy Serve Us or Them?
The endless stream of mergers and acquisitions over the past 34 years has taken away most all of the competition and has concentrated power.
Joseph Stiglitz: No, Spiraling Inequality Isn’t Inevitable
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz took to the opinion pages of The New York Times to argue that there's no such thing as “natural” market forces.