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Robert Reich, RobertReich.com: "Are we finally in a recovery? Who's 'we,' kemosabe? Big global companies, Wall Street, and high-income Americans who hold their savings in financial instruments are clearly doing better. As to the rest of us – small businesses along Main Streets, and middle and lower-income Americans – forget it."

http://www.truthout.org/the-sham-recovery57638



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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "It's now over two weeks since veteran Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration's torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away."

http://www.truthout.org/what-torture-is-and-why-its-illegal-and-not-poor-judgment57622



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13. März 2010

Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst, wirft Guido Westerwelle eine "einseitige Ausrichtung der Außenpolitik auf Wirtschaftsinteressen" vor. Es sei bezeichnend, dass Westerwelle während seiner Südamerika-Reise nicht zu Demokratie- und Menschenrechtsfragen Stellung bezogen habe. Es gebe auffällige Parallelen zwischen dem "beredten Schweigen Westerwelles zum Putsch in Honduras" und dem Engagement der FDP-nahen Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die politischen Kräfte, die den Umsturz in Honduras unterstützt hätten. Ernst erklärt:

Das Programm von Westerwelles Südamerikareise liest sich, als wäre es im Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft geschrieben worden. Demokratie und Menschenrechte haben keine prominente Rolle gespielt. Das ist eine verpasste Chance, weil Westerwelle ausschließlich Länder besucht hat, in denen früher blutige Militärdiktaturen regiert haben. Ein deutscher Außenminister hätte auch den Opfern dieser Diktaturen öffentlich Respekt zollen müssen, anstatt sich nur mit der einheimischen Wirtschaft zu treffen. Westerwelle richtet die Außenpolitik einseitig auf Wirtschaftsinteressen aus. Damit verspielt er das Erbe Genschers. Es ist besonders auffällig, dass Westerwelle nicht die Chance genutzt hat, den Staatsstreich in Honduras zu verurteilen und die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte anzumahnen. Während Westerwelles Reise wurde in Honduras der Journalist David Meza ermordet, ohne dass er dazu ein Wort gefunden hätte. Es gibt unübersehbare Parallelen zwischen dem beredten Schweigen Westerwelles und dem Engagement der FDP-nahen Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung in Südamerika. In Honduras hat die Stiftung nicht nur den Putsch öffentlich verteidigt sondern auch jahrelang die späteren Putschisten innerhalb der Liberalen Partei unterstützt. Offenbar kann Westerwelle noch nicht einmal auf Auslandsreisen zwischen seinen Aufgaben als Außenminister und seiner Rolle als FDP-Chef ordentlich trennen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/auffaelliges-schweigen-westerwelles-zu-menschenrechtsfragen-in-suedamerika/



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Not From Central Casting

Eugene Robinson: "It took the case of 'JihadJane' to illuminate what should have been obvious by now: Anyone who claims to be able to identify a potential terrorist by appearance or nationality is delusional. There's a reason why all of us have to take our shoes off at the airport."

http://www.truthout.org/eugene-robinson-not-from-central-casting57592



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New round of foreclosures threatens housing market

The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate market has begun to stabilize.

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Officials: 2.5 million Floridians on food stamps

More than 2.5 million Floridians are on food stamps, up from three years ago where 1.2 million residents received assistance.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/10/1521776/officials-25-million-floridians.html


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Morgue officials confirmed the deaths and said the bodies of Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband were riddled with bullets in Wednesday's shooting in the Tobchi neighbourhood.

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By Danny Schechter

Here's a story I was told about a middle class woman on Long Island, who happens to be Haitian. I am sure its not the worst case--and certainly not the best outcome. Read it and weep-but as you do remember this bell may toll for more of us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24977.htm



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By Vlad Grinkevich

The current global financial and economic crisis once again confirms the fact that during economic upheavals the rich get richer and the poor become even more destitute. - As of late 2009, the number of billionaires soared from 793 to 1,011 and their total fortunes from $2.4 trillion to $3.6 trillion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24979.htm



Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era

By Andy Kroll

Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first years of the new century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24975.htm



Back to Market Fundamentalism

How champions of Neoliberal economics are reversing New Deal economics

By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

The New Deal and Social-Democratic reforms that evolved out of the Great Depression and World War II were not courtesy of "benevolent" capitalism, voluntarily bestowed upon the poor and working people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24970.htm



The Most Powerful Corporate Business Club Most Americans Have Never Heard of

The Business Roundtable, an organization representing Fortune 500 CEOs, is at the heart of the Economic Elite's power center.

http://snipurl.com/ut14k



Two Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit

By Jim Hightower

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you--and they are! "They" are the corporate powers that collect our consumer dollars and then, as hush-hush as possible, use that money to finance their interlocked array of right-wing foundations, think tanks, "scholars," media sparklies, political personalities, and other fronts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25039.htm



Banker Bob's £63m jackpot: Anger and disgust as scale of City fat-cat culture hits new record

One of Britain's richest bankers has landed a record pay package of £63.3million. The extraordinary deal for Barclays president Bob Diamond sparked a major new row over payouts to banking fat cats.

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Cigna Gives $110.9 Million Compensation Package To Ex-CEO

The insurance giant Cigna last year gave compensation packages worth more than $120 million to two executives who left the company, according to a filing with the SEC on Friday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/cigna-gives-1109-million_n_506974.html


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Ask the Chamber of Commerce: Why Is Too Much Not Enough?

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question or two: how much excess profit does corporate America really need? How much bigger do executive salaries and bonuses have to be? How many houses or jets or artworks can be crammed into a life?"

http://www.truthout.org/ask-chamber-commerce-why-is-too-much-not-enough57608



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