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Mainland Media Fail to Ask Why Puerto Rico Requires ‘Resilience’

James Baratta / Fair Nov 1, 2022 Austerity politics and gentrification tend to slip into the background when it comes to legacy media reporting on Puerto Rico. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Trump’s Disdain for Puerto Rico Should Be His Undoing

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Apr 4, 2019 His “otherizing” of the U.S. colony should not obscure the fact he has failed Americans suffering through the aftermath of hurricanes. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Rich U.S. Mainlanders Are Finding a Tax Paradise in Puerto Rico

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Sep 18, 2018 Thanks to two obscure laws, those with the means to live there for half the year can skip out on taxes while the island struggles to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Activists in New York Rally as Disaster Capitalists Circle Puerto Rico (Photo Essay)

By Daniel Efram Jun 8, 2018 Author Naomi Klein teams up with other journalists, Puerto Rican organizational leaders and other activists to maintain focus on the embattled island. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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Rallying for Puerto Rico

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Media Ignoring Puerto Rico’s ‘Shock Doctrine’ Makeover

Reed Richardson / FAIR Feb 10, 2018 In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló has wasted no time using his territory’s recovery as an opportunity to push policy proposals that are right out of the “disaster capitalism” playbook. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Puerto Rico Suffers While Defending Against ‘Disaster Capitalism’

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Nov 2, 2017 As thousands leave the storm-stricken island for the mainland U.S., perhaps never to return, others are arriving: the disaster capitalists. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Ukraine Is in Crisis. Here’s Why the West Can’t Save It.

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 13, 2015 A video roundtable hosted by Truthdig Assistant Editor Alexander Reed Kelly explains why the IMF, Europe and Western corporations don’t have the country’s best interests at heart. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Naomi Klein

BLANK Sep 21, 2014 The aim of her new book on capitalism and climate change -- to rapidly get large numbers of previously unengaged people to agree that the leading wisdom is the very thing that is preventing humanity from saving itself -- is quixotic and urgent.The aim of her new book on capitalism and climate change—to rapidly get large numbers of previously unengaged people to agree that the leading wisdom is the very thing that is preventing humanity from saving itself—is quixotic and urgent. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Jill Lepore

BLANK Jul 7, 2014 By attacking "one of the most widely cited and celebrated ideas in modern business," the Harvard historian confirmed that American capitalists have embraced destruction as a method of progressBy attacking "one of the most widely celebrated ideas in modern business," the historian confirmed that American capitalists have embraced destruction as a method of progress. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster

By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch Apr 4, 2013 We think of the financial crisis as a man-made calamity, and Hurricane Sandy as the malignant innocence of nature. But neither the notion of a man-made nor natural disaster quite captures how the power of a few and the vulnerability of the many determine what is really going on at ground level. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

The Violence of Neoliberalism and the Attack on Higher Education

By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Mar 27, 2013 Higher education must be understood as a democratic public sphere -- a space in which education enables students to develop a keen sense of prophetic justice, claim their moral and political agency, utilize critical analytical skills, and cultivate an ethical sensibility through which they learn to respect the rights of others. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )