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Goldman’s Offshore Deals Deepened Global Financial Crisis
New York - When financial titan Goldman Sachs joined some of its Wall Street rivals in late 2005 in secretly packaging a new breed of offshore securities, it gave …

Lessons of the Gaza Freedom March
At 8 a.m., on Wednesday, December 30, I took my seat on a bus in downtown Cairo that was about to head for Gaza. The evening before, Medea Benjamin, …

Egypt: Rooftops Empower the Poor
Cairo - In one of the poorest and most populous neighborhoods of Cairo, Hussein Soliman and his family live in a small apartment that is a model of …

Escape From Pottersville: Strengthening Banking in the Public Interest
Returning our business to community banks is a great start. However, community banks are not suffering from a lack of customers so much as from a lack of the …

Mortgage Foreclosures Still Swamping Federal Efforts to Help
Washington - Banks and other lenders are still foreclosing on Americans' homes at a rate that's outpacing the Obama administration's main effort to stem the crisis. In fact, while …

Mega Giant Corporations Are Very Bad for America
The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of “Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction,” published by Wiley Press.

Obama Indicates Escalating US Military Involvement in Yemen
This morning, President Barack Obama for the first time attributed the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound plane to al Qaeda. In his weekly radio address, Obama painted …

Transcript: President Barack Obama | The Fight Against Al-Qaeda
Weekly Address: President Obama Outlines Steps Taken to Protect the Safety and Security of the American People In his weekly address, President Barack Obama discussed his responsibility to …

The Avatar Decade
Watch as the world “avatars,” as spheres of politics and big business make way for creativity, science and people power. Boston - Power shifted this decade from the …

Women Empowered by Restoring Desertified Land
Natagaima, Colombia - Indigenous and rural women from southern Tolima, a province located in the heart of Colombia, are lending a hand to the bleak land around them, with …