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Why All the Robo-Signing? Shining a Light on the Shadow Banking System
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: epicharmus, _rockinfree) The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19 that the Obama administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state …
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Mitch Daniels’ State of the Union Response Shows GOP Priority: Beating Up on Workers
Last night’s State of the Union response by Mitch Daniels was remarkable before he uttered a single word. Daniels’ response was the first to be delivered from a …
A WPA for History: Occupy the American Historical Association
[Partly in response to my calls to the American Historical Association to deal with the jobs crisis in the field, AHA President Tony Grafton organized on short notice a …
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Is Schneiderman Selling Out? Joins Federal Committee That Looks Designed to Undermine AGs Against Mortgage Settlement Deal
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been celebrated as the progressive Great White Hope. But the danger of assuming leadership is that that individual becomes a target both …
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Washington Post CEO, Kaplan and Predatory Accounting That Hits Poor Students Hard
In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Washington Post CEO Donald Graham admits that Kaplan University engaged in a scheme to raise tuition on poor students. The scheme was launched …
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Former Obama Adviser: Focus on US Inequality in Election-Year State of the Union Has Occupy Wall Street’s Imprint
In his last State of the Union speech before the November election, President Obama defended his record addressing the financial crisis and called for greater economic fairness. He warned …
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Jim Hightower | Politicos Are Stealing the People’s Property
“Sorry, we're closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across the country, as governors and legislators are cutting off funds …
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Obama: No Retreat, No Surrender
Ashington - It was to be expected that in the course of his State of the Union address, President Obama would mention the killing of Osama bin Laden, whose …
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Warning: High Frequency
Consider this story: It’s January 1990, during the pioneer build-out of mobile phone service. A cell tower goes up 800 feet from the house of Alison Rall, in Mansfield, …
Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent
While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties marched into the state’s election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott …