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How the Sneaky Hands of the Big Banks Are Working Overtime to Rip You Off
After living through the Great Financial Crash of 2008, just about everybody recognizes that megabanks screwed the economy hard and were rewarded with big bailouts, which further screwed over, …
How Prepared Are We for the Next Great Flu Breakout?
This report appears in the Summer 2010 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine. It is the …
The Fox Cycle: From Bogus Right-Wing Attack to Mainstream News
As more and more media outlets follow Fox News' lead in covering the manufactured New Black Panther Party/Department of Justice (DOJ) scandal, Media Matters offers three case studies of …
Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved By DOJ
Jay Bybee, who as a senior Justice Department lawyer signed two memos in 2002 authorizing CIA interrogators to torture “war on terror” prisoners, told a congressional panel that more …
“We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War:" Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake
Haiti during the World Cup is much like my hometown of New Orleans was during the Superbowl. Don't try to make plans with anyone to do anything during a …
Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly “completely shocked and outraged” when he learned that his nephew, who suffers from epilepsy and was reportedly suicidal, was beate
Is Stimulus Plan Working? The Arguments Pro and Con
The Obama administration said in a report Wednesday that its stimulus plan is working to bolster economy, but Republicans fired back that Americans aren't feeling what Vice President Joe …
President Obama’s Most Inexplicable Failure
President Barack Obama has been a major disappointment to a liberal community that rallied to his call for genuine change. His administration has made no attempt to investigate the …
Poll Tapes, Other Evidence Discovered Missing in Long-Disputed “Fixed” Arizona Election
The mystery surrounding a long-questioned and allegedly “fixed” non-partisan 2006 Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) bond election in Pima County, AZ continues to deepen as troubling new details have now …
Robert Reich | Why We Can
Fred Hochberg, president of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., thinks I’m wrong to worry about a trade war, and that the President’s goal for doubling U.S. exports over …