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Sweetheart Deferred Prosecution Deals for Swiss Banks in the Works
Former chief economist at McKinsey & Co., James Henry, says it's time for the Justice Department to bring down the hammer on tax evasion.
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Four Years Ago Obama Promised to Investigate Afghan Massacre; Has Anything Happened Since?
Human rights researchers who originally uncovered the case say they've seen no evidence of an active investigation.
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Pentagon May Be Wasting a Billion Dollars a Year in Erroneous Payments to Contractors
Check-writing mistakes are said to be huge, but the military is not tracking the problem closely enough to know for sure.
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Obama Orders List of Foreign Cyber Targets
Obama wants a secret target list for possible cyber attacks, a major expansion of US planning for disabling and hacking into foreign computer networks.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Walmart Is Using the Court System to Silence Protesters, and More
In today's On the News segment: Walmart is using the court system to silence protesters; a Senate Committee advanced bipartisan legislation to create a federal licensing program for insurance …
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A Timeline of Mass Surveillance in America
That the National Security Agency has engaged in such activity isn't entirely new: Since 9/11, we've learned about large-scale surveillance by the spy agency.
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Consumer Groups, Shareholders Call for Google to Leave US Chamber of Commerce, Disclose Political Spending
Outside spending in elections quadrupled between 2010 and 2012 after the Citizens United ruling cleared the way for corporations to privately donate unlimited sums to political candidates.
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Industrial Disasters and Student Activism — An Overlooked Story
Student activists across the country are working to bring attention to sweatshop fires across seas.
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Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs in May, Unemployment at 7.6 Percent
Weak productivity growth has supported the job growth of the last two years.
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NSA Whistleblowers: “All US Citizens” Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers
A leaked court order has revealed the Obama administration is conducting a massive domestic surveillance program by collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers.