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Mortgage Giants Leave Legal Bills to the Taxpayers
Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil …
Peter Peterson’s Budget Ball
O.K. folks, it looks like the whole country is now playing Peter Peterson's budget ball. For those not familiar with him, Peterson is a Wall Street investment banker. He …
Nicole Foss: We Need Freedom of Action To Confront Peak Oil (Video)
In the third video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth productions, co-editor of The Automatic Earth, Nicole M. Foss, …
New York City to Disabled: Take a Hike
With a knee problem and a chic all-black walker, I have found more and more New York City cabs inaccessible. The new hybrids are good for anti-pollution but are …
In the Shadow of the Dragon
The motivating force of the theory of a democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, …
Where Liberals Go to Feel Good
Barack Obama is another stock character in the cyclical political theater embraced by the liberal class. Act I is the burst of enthusiasm for a Democratic candidate who, through …
Former Spy With Agenda Operates a Private CIA
Washington - Duane R. Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but from poolside at his home near San Diego, he still runs …
“Greatest Nation” Rhetoric Roars Back
My greatness as a writer is simply a fact. You don't agree? Well, then obviously you are churlish or malevolent. If I were serious about such a claim of …
California Shows Corporate Subsidies Impoverish Us All
As Sacramento prepares to inaugurate governor-elect Jerry Brown next month, the main focus has been on the state’s looming budget deficit and how the legislature and Brown plan to …
The US “Rethinks” the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights, Maybe
On Tuesday, 16 December 2010, the US reversed the Bush administration's strong opposition to the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), adopted by 143 countries in …