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There Will Be Cheating: Another Gift to Big Banks Hidden in Obama’s Principal Reduction Strategy
If you ask a homeowner who has tried to get a government-certified mortgage modification from a bank, half the time you’ll hear a story of lost paperwork, incompetence, and …
North Korea’s 100th – to Celebrate or to Surrender?
On 16 March 2012, North Korea announced that it would launch an earth observation satellite named Kwangmyongsong (Lodestar) 3, aboard an Unha carrier rocket sometime between the hours of …
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Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History (and Why Taxpayers Shouldn’t Stand for It Any More)
Along with “fivedollaragallongas,” the energy watchword for the next few months is: “subsidies.” Last week, for instance, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez proposed ending some of the billions of …
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California Students Pepper-Sprayed While Protesting Tuition Hikes Caused by Budget Cuts
Santa Monica College, a public community college in California, has been so strained by cuts to state education funding that it has had to turn away students, increase tuition, …
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Iran’s Revolution and the Global Politics of Resistance
(Image: Melville House Books)The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (Brooklyn, New York: Melville House), 2010; $18.95. …
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Finance Expert Says Speculators Are Behind High Oil and Gasoline Prices
(Photo: brownpau) Washington - Financial speculators are gambling on oil the same way they gambled on the housing market a few years ago — a frightening prospect for the …
The Fracking Frenzy’s Impact on Women
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has generated widespread media attention this year. The process, which injects water and chemicals into the ground to release “natural” gas and oil from shale …
“No Contact” Is the Keystone XL of Iran Policy
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a news conference at the Warwick Hotel in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times) When Bill McKibben …
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Course Correction: Averting the “Total Ruin” of Institutionalized Injustice
As a parent, I tend to keep one eye on the present and another on the future. I also keep one (the third eye, perhaps?) on the past, since …
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West Virginia Retirees Occupy – and Win
Karen Gorrell choked back tears one Saturday in early March as she pulled the final stake from the tent that had been her home for the past seventy-five days. …