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The Shutdown of ERT and Greece’s Media Landscape: a Modern-Day Wild Wild West
The history of Greek broadcast media relations with the government reflects attempts at authoritarian control.
Inside the “ALEC Universe“
Representative Chris Taylor: They are ready to start creating an ALEC nation.
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Greece’s Golden Dawn: A Wake-up Call for Europe
The bankers behind the European Union's imposition of neoliberal austerity in Greece have fed the rise of Golden Dawn with its
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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Why Congress’s Gridlock Doesn’t Paralyze Government but Gridlocks Democracy
Just because the legislature has ceased to function doesn't mean our government has. Political decision making has moved to peripheral public entities, where power is exercised less transparently and …
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Why Are SWAT Teams Answering Routine Police Calls?
The use of SWAT teams for routine law enforcement matters has been on the rise.
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A Lack of Spine on Egypt
Eugene Robinson: Obama should speak the truth and cut off military aid.
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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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Amend or Repeal the Espionage Act to Protect Journalists and Whistleblowers
The Espionage Act, created around World War I and resulting in a 10-year sentence for a union leader for giving a speech critical of US entry into the war, …
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.”