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Private Sector Loans, Not Fannie or Freddie, Triggered Crisis
Washington - As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to …
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Washington Lobbyists Crafted $850,000 Secret Plan For Bank Lobbyists To Undermine Occupy Wall Street
This weekend, the MSNBC show Up! With Chris Hayes broke a stunning story about how Washington lobbyists are scrambling to undermine the protesters on Wall Street and across the …
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Secrecy Surrounds Inmate Suicides in California State Prisons
California prisoner advocate groups have raised alarm about a string of suicides in California state prisons committed by inmates who participated in hunger strikes this year to demand an …
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Privatization Nightmare: 5 Public Services That Should Never Be Handed Over to Greedy Corporations
Who gains – and who loses – when public assets and jobs are turned over to the private sector? The corporate right endlessly promotes “privatization” of public …
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The Rush for Oil in West Africa – The New Wild West?
Freetown, Sierra Leone - There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa. But there are fears that the sector is not sufficiently regulated, and watchdog …
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Will the South Be Forced to Pay for the Lessons of Fukushima?
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to approve the design of a new type of nuclear reactor planned for sites across the South without first incorporating the lessons …
Bay Area Workers Up in Arms
Hyatt Housekeepers Sue the Hotel in San Jose In San Jose, two housekeepers at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after …
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Failure of the Super Committee Might Be the US’s Best Hope for Economic Recovery
The bipartisan super committee will probably fail to meet the self-imposed November 23rd deadline to enact $1.2trillion of cuts over the next ten years. That failure, as Paul Krugman …
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The Health Care Industry’s Stranglehold on Congress
One of the reasons why Congress has been largely unable to make the American health care system more efficient and equitable is because of the stranglehold lobbyists for special …
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Super Committee Member Senator John Kerry: Grover Norquist Is “The 13th Member Of This Committee“
Today, the 12-member congressional super committee is expected to announce failure to reach an agreement to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget. One of major “sticking divides,” as …