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Bill Moyers: “Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy” (2)
Comments Prepared for Delivery Public Citizen 40th Gala Washington, DC October20, 2011 I am honored to share this occasion with you. No …
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Too Big to Jail
Robert Rubin. (Photo: Center for American Progress / Flickr) Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money, and the fact that …
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Protest Changes Austerity Debate
A Simchat Torah celebration earlier this month at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York. (Photo: Michael Kirby Smith / The New York Times) I visited …
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Occupy the Koch Brothers – and Stop the American Nightmare
The very name of a Washington conservative conference this weekend is the height of subterfuge. It's called the “Defending the American Dream” conference, which is not about defending the …
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Me and OFAC and Ahmed the Egyptian: One Citizen’s Misadventure in Securityland
The big war news on the front page of the New York Times last weekend was headlined: “U.S. Is Planning Buildup in Gulf After Iraq Exit.” Its first …
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Business Leader: “I’m So Grateful to Occupy Wall Street“
Demonstrators with the Occupy Wall Street protests clean an area at the encampment in Zucotti Park in New York, October 13, 2011. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York …
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A Realistic Fix for the Mortgage Crisis
President Obama recently announced that the federal government will take steps to reduce interest rates on mortgages for some existing homeowners. Unfortunately, that won't help millions of U.S. homeowners …
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Condoleezza Rice’s Misguided “Values“
Condoleezza Rice, who was both National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, also was an administration spokesperson who helped scare the American people into …
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Greece’s Choice – and Ours: Democracy or Finance?
Which do you trust more: democracy or financial markets? Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou decided in favor of democracy yesterday when he announced a national referendum …
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“Click, Clack, Moo”: Why the One Percent Always Wins
As a high school English teacher for nearly two decades, I came to embrace a need to offer students a wide range of lenses for interacting with and learning …