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Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch: Since 2007, the foreclosure crisis has displaced at least 10 million people from more than four million homes across the country. Gottesdiener travels through neighborhoods affected by the crisis and reports on the grassroots movements of resistance to foreclosure and displacement.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17936-the-great-eviction-the-landscape-of-wall-streets-creative-destruction



Plutocrats Brazenly Collude to Hurt State Economies and Screw Working People

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet: It s not a figment of the American people s imaginations. Corporate titans are using corruption and collusion to rig the economy.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17917-bombshell-plutocrats-brazenly-collude-to-hurt-state-economies-and-screw-working-people



What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing

Peter Rugh, Occupy.com: Big bank energy market manipulations highlight Wall Street's entrenched stake in the fossil fuel economy that is heating up the planet.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17920-investigation-what-the-jpmorgan-chase-energy-scandal-reveals-about-fossil-fuel-financing



Conservative Policies are Driving Americans to Suicide

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: There is a disturbing, but not surprising, connection between America s suicide rate and Conservative economic policies.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17938-conservative-policies-are-driving-americans-to-suicide



Global Power Project: Banking on Influence With Wells Fargo

Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com: ''For a mega-money-laundering, drug war-profiteering, prison industry-enlarging global bank like Wells Fargo, the evidence is obvious: It helps to have affiliations with individuals and institutions that make up the US, and increasingly the international, power elite."

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17942-global-power-project-banking-on-influence-with-wells-fargo



Death by Corporation: America s Corporate Deathstar

Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: Dr. Brian Moench continues his examination of America's corporate 'Deathstar' and explains why the TransPacific Partnership will allow corporations to have 'virtually unchecked control of our food supply, our land, air, water, wallets and our future.'

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18115-mankind-death-by-corporation-part-iii-the-tpp-as-corporate-deathstar



Progressives Ask for Too Little, Not Too Much in Age of Plutocratic Rule

Mark Karlin, Truthout: Truthout discusses with John Nichols and Robert McChesney the daunting challenge of maintaining a vibrant democracy when wealth can buy the media, the elections and the government.

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/18173-progressives-have-asked-for-too-little-not-too-much-in-an-age-of-plutocratic-rule



Money and the Corporate Media Are Gagging Democracy

Robert McChesney and John Nichols, Nation Books: Moneyed interests are confident, even in the face of temporary setbacks, that they will be able to continue their initiative because they are well-served by the decline of the news media as a checking and balancing force on our politics.

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/18174-money-and-the-corporate-media-are-gagging-democracy



Resisting Foreclosure: Rising Up for a Dream Called Home

Mark Karlin, Truthout: In this interview, author Laura Gottesdiener discusses how blacks as a racial group are still being targeted and are still facing daunting, often illegal, challenges to achieve the dream of a place to call home.

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/18451-resisting-foreclosure-rising-up-for-a-dream-called-home



Black-White Income Differences: What s Happened?

Aurthur Macewan, Dollars & Sense: The economic position of African-Americans relative to white Americans has not improved in the past 40 years.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18473-black-white-income-differences-whats-happened

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Corporate Constitutional 'Rights' Harm Small Business
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/09

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Never Believe the Government About the Economy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/peter-schiff/never-believe-the-government-about-the-economy/

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Too Big To Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before

By Michael Snyder

The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years. Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from the banking industry during that time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36297.htm



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