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Make Some Noise to Ward Off an Avalanche of Avarice
You might not be aware of this news from northern Arizona, since the reporting of it in the media has been less than robust, but in recent weeks there …
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Army Reservist Told He’s Barred From Re-Enlistment for Speaking to Truthout About Guantanamo
Pfc. Albert Melise was accused by the US Army of leaking classified information to Truthout during an interview about Guantanamo. (Photo courtesy of Albert Melise) The US …
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Amnesty for the Indefensible
They will get away with it, at least in this life. “They” are the Wall Street usurers, people of a sort condemned in Scripture, who have brought …
Matt Taibbi Exposes How Securities and Exchange Commission Shredded Thousands of Investigations (Video)
An explosive new report in Rolling Stone magazine exposes how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the …
Ending Wars on Time Would Save $200 Billion, One-Sixth of Debt Reduction Goal
By Thanksgiving, the Congressional “Super Committee” is supposed to come up with $1.2 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years. The Super Committee can include anything it …
TV Networks “Monetize” Politics
Already the 2012 projections are in – not for who is going to win the election – but for how much it is likely to cost. Public …
Fed’s $1.2 Trillion in Financial Sector Loans “A Classic Case of Moral Hazard“
During the 2008 financial crisis, when the nation's banking system seemed on the verge of collapse, President George W. Bush authorized a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. …
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Verizon Goes From Wireless to Shameless
It was only a matter of time before the “pull down” NAFTA and WTO trade agreements on U.S. wages and jobs would be followed by “pull down” contract demands …
FEMA During Hurricane Katrina and Beyond
FEMA USAR teams go out in boats to help rescue residents stranded due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina, August 31st, 2005. (Photo: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA) Leo Bosner was …
Make It in America: How We Can Bring Manufacturing Back (No, Really)
In this highly polarized country, one idea about fixing America's economic woes reverberates across ideological, partisan, geographic and class lines: “Let's make things in America again.” And …