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To Protect Service Members, Defense Department Plans Broad Ban on High-Cost Loans
Acknowledging that a previous law did not go far enough, Defense Department said it needs to expand rules to protect service members from high-cost lenders.
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Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
Video Statement by Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
Famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg announces the launch of ExposeFacts, a public accountability organization.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporations Have Almost Erased Workers’ Rights in the US, and More
According to data from the International Trade Union Confederation, it appears that corporations have almost completely destroyed workers' rights in the US, and more.
Mexico’s Oil Privatization: Risky Business
Mexico's oil privatization scheme will hurt the environment, scar the landscape, and leave Mexico at the mercy of transnational firms.
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Piketty in Elysium
If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.
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Jeju Island: A Pivot on the Peace Island
Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force to resist the desecration caused as mega-corporations like Samsung and Daelim to build …
Class War: Thailand’s Military Coup
Outnumbered by the country's rural voters, Thailand's once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda.
Caribbean Reparations Initiative Inspires a Revitalization of US Movement
An intellectual paradigm shift in the Caribbean and in other parts of the African diaspora is revitalizing the reparations campaign that must become a critical component of the human …
Truthout Interviews Dahr Jamail on New Mexico Politics and Climate Change
The data on climate change suggests we're past the point of no return in terms of reversing its effects.