Exec for Maker of $150,000 Cancer Drug Tells Investors Its Pricing Is ‘Very Responsible’
Dec 31, 2015 In a recent earnings call, a top official at pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson dismissed questions about drug price reform and described the company as “responsible” in its pricing.
Will Yanis Varoufakis Find a New Role on the World Stage?
Dec 27, 2015 Together with “a variety of good folks across Europe,” the former Greek finance minister is working to build “a pan-European democratic movement, call it a party, call it what you will,” that transcends national political parties.
So You Want to Ditch Your Landlord
Dec 10, 2015 “Real estate as a store of private wealth is the rotten tree that sprouts [the] diseased branches” of homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, gentrification and dangerous housing bubbles, writes Jesse A. Meyerson at The Nation. “[T]he solution is to quit pruning twigs and chop the sucker down.”
America, Home of the Brave
May 16, 2015
Truthdiggers of the Week: The Lawyers Suing to Protect Refugee Children
Jul 14, 2014 After fleeing a country with the worst murder rate in the world, and traveling more than a thousand miles while surviving corrupt officials, cartels and garden variety rape, an unaccompanied Honduran child would probably find herself in a courtroom trying to explain, via a translator, why she can't go back.
Dennis Kucinich: Both Political Parties Have Failed America
Jul 11, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dennis Kucinich holds politicians accountable. Also: the fight to get refugee children legal representation, why legal weed is good for America, and Detroit anthologized.
Clean Energy Created Nearly 80,000 Green Jobs in America During 2013
Mar 15, 2014
100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility
Dec 23, 2013 December 23, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed? For the banks, the Fed has served quite well. For the laboring masses whose populist movement prompted it, not much has changed in a century.
Debate: Secret TPP Text to Eliminate Internet Freedom Exposed
Nov 15, 2013 A 95 page draft of a chapter of possibly the most consequential U.S. trade deal in history released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday details plans regarding patents, copyright, trademarks and industrial design, "showing their wide-reaching implications for Internet services, civil liberties, publishing rights and medicine accessibility," "Democracy Now!" reports.
Truthdigger of the Week: Lori Wallach
Oct 6, 2013 This critic of globalization is one of the few voices trying to alert the public to a secretive, ongoing effort to create a legal means for corporations to attack and subvert government.
