Oil Train Safety

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Anti-Sovereignty Trans-Pacific Partnership Passes House Committee

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 24, 2015 An agreement that would free companies engaged in international trade from rules intended to protect labor, environmental and other interests cleared a key committee in the U.S. Congress. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ex-Lobbyists for Spies Are Overseeing Government Spying

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 11, 2015 Increasingly, the task of overseeing the National Security Agency is going to former lobbyists for NSA contractors and other intelligence community insiders. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Activists Won: FCC Chairman Proposes Strongest-Ever Protection of Internet Freedom

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Feb 5, 2015 For a while there, Tom Wheeler, Federal Communications Commission chairman and former cable and wireless lobbyist, looked as if he was going to bow to his old paymasters on net neutrality. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Diabetes Patients Suffer Unregulated and Commercially Unnecessary Hike in Insulin Price

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 13, 2014 Though Humulin has been on the market for many years for a relatively cheap price, a single monthlong dose of the insulin variety manufactured by Eli Lilly costs $1,200 today -- more than five times the amount in 2007. Why? Because the company can charge that much, Eli Lilly's insulin marketing director said. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Get Ready for the ‘Internet Slowdown’

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Sep 4, 2014 Next Wednesday, Sept. 10, if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net's "Internet Slowdown," a global day of grass-roots action. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: R Is for Rentier

By Michael Hudson Apr 14, 2014 Race to the bottom: A term for dog-eat-dog competition by which countries compete by cutting wage levels so as to produce in the cheapest market, not by raising wages and labor productivity. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

China Unveils Comprehensive Pollution Monitoring System

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Jan 27, 2014 Measures would require the country’s biggest polluters to report air emissions and wastewater discharges on a more or less continuous basis -- and make the information available to the public. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Volcker Rule Made Meaningless by Abundant Exemptions

Nomi Prins / Truthdig Dec 19, 2013 The Volcker Rule has finally been approved by regulators, but with hundreds of pages of exemptions, too-big-to-fail banks have little to fear. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

N.Y. Fed Moves to Seal Documents in Ex-Bank Examiner’s Suit

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2013 Carmen Segarra filed a lawsuit against the New York Fed and three of its employees alleging she had been wrongfully terminated last year after she determined that Goldman Sachs had insufficient conflict-of-interest policies. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sep 19, 2013 Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. Although free of government regulation, these banks are propped up by a guarantee hidden in the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street. The result is a perverse incentive for the financial system to self-destruct. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Are Cigarettes Cigarettes If They’re Electronic?

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Aug 27, 2013 E-cigarettes, those small vaporizers that deliver nicotine to the lungs without fire and smoke, are the apparent future of tobacco, and the FDA is about to respond to the industry with a pack of regulations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )