Joshua Cho / FAIRNov 20, 2019
The U.S. is experiencing record inequality and corporate profits, yet its press continues to praise Donald Trump's effect on the market. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
John McCullough / FAIRDec 24, 2018
Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a moderate leftist, yet he's depicted as a bigger threat than fascists like Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 19, 2013
Rather than resolving the debt crisis, lawmakers' 11th-hour deal to raise the debt ceiling, which threatened to push the global economy over the edge, simply delayed it Financial Times chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, tells Bill Moyers the US debt ceiling is “the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb aimed by the U at itself”. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 12, 2013
In an op-ed for the Financial Times, Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and American University professor Peter Kuznick argue that the National Security Agency’s surveillance program that began during George W. Bush’s administration and has been expanded by President Barack Obama “is laying the foundation for a frighteningly dystopian future.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 3, 2013
Apple will deprive the American public of $9 billion in U.S. taxes by paying shareholders with proceeds from a $17 billion blockbuster bond sale instead of using money it made abroad. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 26, 2010
America's top brass in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, sat down for a talk with the Financial Times last week about his strategy in the South Asian nation, how long he thinks U.S. troops will remain there and the possibility of the Taliban's participation in the Afghan government. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 12, 2008
John McCain comes off as the tough-talking hard-liner in this Financial Times story about the Russia-Georgia conflict. Even more of a hard-liner than President Bush, who ever-so-reluctantly came around to agreeing with McCain on Monday after initially taking "a much more diluted stance" (just like Barack Obama), as John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, put it in the FT article's completely unsurprising conclusion. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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