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A Flat-Footed Backflip for Wall Street
Congress gave its bankster buddies an overly generous holiday gift.
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Behind New Jersey’s Tobacco Bond Bailout, A Hedge Fund’s $100 Million Payday
When New Jersey bailed out some of its tobacco bonds, the state gave up $400 million in future revenues to pocket $92 million immediately.
Comcast Wants Customers to Pay More for Using the Internet Too Much
ISPs are looking for alternative ways to control the internet gateway and make a profit.
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Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes
The Quechua Indians are worried about threats to their potato crops from alterations in rainfall patterns and temperatures.
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Terrorism “Insurance” Expires
Congress should end the wars, ground the drones and stop using torture.
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Doubling Down on Dictatorship in the Middle East
The Arab Spring didn't stop US support for friendly despots.
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High-Level Fed Committee Overruled Carmen Segarra’s Finding on Goldman
Fed officials did not accept a conclusion that had been endorsed by frontline Fed examiners stationed at some of the nation's largest banks.
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Flipping the Script: Pedagogy, Theater and Radical Organizing in Schools of Poverty
Teacher Jay Gillen goes beyond simply refusing to be complicit with educational injustice.
Peace on Earth – 2015
Nuclear deterrence and the threat of mutually assured destruction cannot be the basis for an ethics of fraternity and peaceful coexistence among peoples and states.
New York Civil Liberties Union Applauds Cuomo Veto of Bill That Would Decrease Accountability at Rikers Island
If Governor Cuomo had signed this bill, it would have been the first time in history that the New York state government overrode a county's authority to prosecute crimes …