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Taking Back Homes From the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing
May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right to housing. …

Republicans and the Tea Party of No
As much as they may grumble, there is a legitimate reason why the Republicans have been labeled the “Party of No.” For decades, the party’s kneejerk stance has been …

Goldman Sachs Publicly Backs Financial Reform – While Dispatching Army of Lobbyists
Amid attempts to rein in Wall Street, persuaders safeguard bank’s interests. For all of Goldman Sachs’ professed support for an overhaul of financial regulations, the megabank hasn’t exactly withdrawn …

Africa Has Less Say After Changes in World Bank Voting
Paris - The World Bank has described its recent increase of 3.13 percent in the voting power of emerging economies as a reform "to enhance voice and participation of …

Family Friendly Cuts to Social Security: The Myth of Affluence Testing
Billionaire Wall Street investment banker Peter Peterson has come up with a focus group tested term for his plan to cut Social Security. He calls it “affluence testing.” The …

BP Finally Connects Mile-Long Pipe to Begin Capping Oil Spill
Miami - Oil giant BP succeeded Sunday in connecting a mile-long pipe to help capture what it hoped will be a majority of the oil flowing from a damaged …

Randall Amster | Ode to Arizona
The desert stretched for miles in every direction before yielding to grasslands and juniper forests. Behind me lay the vast, unchanging terrain of isolation and despair; ahead the close …

The Dementia of Petroleum Addiction?
“It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.” - Barack Obama April 2, 2010

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Robert Reich | BP Stands for Bad Petroleum
Saturday the White House warned BP that it expects the oil giant to pay all damages associated with the disastrous oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, even if …