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By: Alex Newman At a time of soaring U.S. budget deficits, brutal economic hardship for tens of millions of Americans, and unprecedented levels of federal spending, the Obama administration is asking Congress to drastically increase […]

By TLB Contributor: Dave Hodges. Since the advent of privatized prisons in 1984, America has witnessed the passage of laws that require zero tolerance and mandatory sentencing, without regard for any extenuating circumstances. These two […]

March 21, 2014  |Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman, Juan González   A new internal report says the Justice Department massively overstated its successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking it as a low priority […]

By:  S. D. Wells Step one: Tell the American people that they will all enjoy affordable healthcare coverage, regardless of pre-existing conditions or whether or not they work for a corporation, big government or themselves. […]

By: TLB Contributor: Ken LaRive It has been said that all of the evil of this world is rooted in money. As a Libertarian, I have questioned this assertion, and as I have cast this […]

By:  Martha Rosenberg Editor’s note: The following article is a follow up to a previous piece about drugs whose dangerous side-effects emerged only after the pharmaceutical industry’s patents ran out. Read part 1 here. When a […]

A settlement for death or injuries down the road is just the cost of doing business. By: Martha Rosenberg Have you ever noticed how warnings about dangerous prescription drugs always seem to surface after the […]

By TLB Contruibutor: Dave Hodges. At the risk of sounding elitist, there is something so big coming, so profound, that it could change the course of history, either for the better or for the worse, […]

  By Zine Larbaoui A lot of time is being wasted wondering what the Fed will or will not do or in analyzing the latest grossly rigged economic statistics. Very few people think for themselves […]

Make no mistake about it: The Obama administration is desperate to find ways to sell federal government debt, fully expecting President Obama will continue running federal budget debts in the range of $1 trillion a […]