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How Sanders Can Win Over Black Voters (Video)

The Real News Network Feb 24, 2019 There's still a chance for the Vermont senator to tackle racial inequality and contend with such candidates as Cory Booker and Kamala Harris. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

School Segregation Is Making a Comeback

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Sep 20, 2017 Many states have made it easier for communities to secede from their school district, thus allowing them to segregate again. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Neoliberalism Will Soon Force Americans to Leave the United States

Staff / Truthdig Jun 18, 2016 US economic policy will eventually pressure U citizens to emigrate just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States and now Greece in search of a better life, economist Michael Hudson tells The Real News Network. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Is Hillary Clinton a Progressive? Not According to Her Policy Record

Staff / Truthdig Feb 4, 2016 Jeff Cohen, media scholar at Ithaca College and founder of the watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, reviews Clinton's history of "progressivism" and laughs. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Wants Austerity … for the Rich

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 25, 2015 “The finance ministers of Europe are not all in favor of balancing the budget if it has to be balanced by taxing the rich,” says economist Michael Hudson (not pictured) of the ongoing confrontation over the Greek debt crisis. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Has the IMF Annexed Ukraine?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 14, 2015 Michael Hudson, an economist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, says the terms attached to the loans made by the IMF to Ukraine are likely to turn its people into penniless serfs of international banks. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Inside Chavez’s Venezuela

Sharmini Peries Nov 30, 2005 Sharmini Peries, foreign policy advisor to Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, talks about Latin America's most contentious leader -- and thorn in Washington's side -- since Fidel Castro. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )