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Monday, 9 February 2015 View Recent Newsletters Tell a friend about Truthout! Donate Today! Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible. BuzzFlash Brian Williams’ Racially Coded Inflammatory Hurricane Katrina Coverage Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Racial prejudice … Continue reading
The Shame of US Journalism Is the Destruction of Iraq, Not Fake Helicopter Stories
The Shame of US Journalism Is the Destruction of Iraq, Not Fake Helicopter Stories Christian Christensen Iraq | Media | War by Christian Christensen | February 6, 2015 – 8:57am The news that NBC’s Brian Williams was not, in fact, … Continue reading
Nuclear War and Clashing Ukraine Narratives
Nuclear War and Clashing Ukraine Narratives Robert Parry Article Tools Ukraine by Robert Parry | February 7, 2015 – 10:03am The U.S. government and mainstream media are swaggering toward a possible nuclear confrontation with Russia over Ukraine without any of … Continue reading
Money: The Great Corrupter – David Harvey
Money: The Great Corrupter – David Harvey Laura Flanders Economic Policy by Laura Flanders | February 7, 2015 – 10:18am Is the economy recovering, or is the system itself the problem? Economist and philosopher David Harvey on money; which he … Continue reading
Finding equilibrium
Finding equilibrium February 8, 2015Editor from Lars Syll Finding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. … Continue reading
Why There Is No Massive Anti-War Movement in America
Why There Is No Massive Anti-War Movement in America Posted on Feb 3, 2015 By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_ there_is_no_massive_antiwar_movement_in_america_20150203 Photo by Beverly & Pack (CC BY 2.0) This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Well, it’s one, two, three, look at that … Continue reading
What Shakespeare Taught Me About Marxism
What Shakespeare Taught Me About Marxism Paul Mason http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/02/sharkespeare-marxism-feudalism-capitalism What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism Paul Mason Without knowing the terms, he described the collapse of feudalism and the emergence of early capitalism Sunday 2 November 2014 15.00 EST If … Continue reading