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Banking Groups Stir Consumer Fears on Debit Card Regulations via Twitter
It’s April 21, and another Dodd-Frank deadline has come and gone. Today was the day the Fed's regulations on debit card transaction fees, also known as interchange fees, were …
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Truthout’s Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About WikiLeaks Guantanamo Files
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Fracking’s Environmental Footprint to Transform Pennsylvania Landscape
Executives in the energy exploration and drilling industry practically salivate when talk turns to possibilities in Pennsylvania. Perhaps fittingly, their nickname for the Keystone State is "the …
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The Authoritarian Agenda Behind Attacks on Contraception
In a recent piece for the American Prospect, Sarah Posner outlined how the fringe of the religious right increasingly dictates the larger conservative agenda, as evidenced by the bold …
Unequal Protection: The Early Role of Corporations in America
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Jane Anne Morris is a corporate anthropologist and writer in Madison, Wisconsin, and she is affiliated with the Program on Corporations, Law, …
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Forces Opposed to Dangerous, Extravagant Nuke Project Get Day in Court
If you're not a regular reader, you may be surprised to learn the federal government seeks to ram through a new nuclear facility that's intolerable on a number of …
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Four Alleged Masterminds of 2008 Mumbai Attacks Are Indicted in Chicago
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have indicted four alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks including two men who, as ProPublica has reported in recent months, have been linked by …
Thom Hartmann: Which Shall Rule – Wealth or Man?
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The “Judicial Independence” of Justice David T. Prosser
“This was a decisive election about judicial independence,” Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser said at a press conference in Madison last Monday, declaring victory and explaining his opposition …