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Clinton, Obama Are Wall Street Darlings
Janet Hook and Dan Morain report for the Los Angeles Times, "Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, who are running for president as economic populists, are benefiting handsomely from Wall Street donations,... ...
US economist calls financial crisis worst since 1930s
Dollars tough to sell The U.S. dollar's value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while... ...
An Election Without Meaning
By Peter Phillips Will November 2008 bring a meaningful change to America? Will getting rid of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney without impeachment or indictment really make a difference? Will a 600... ...
Bernanke Deep-Sixes the Dollar to Save Wall Street
Contre Info writes: "In the absence of the authority and political courage required to cut to the quick, the Fed has been reduced to using expedients that - while allowing the extent of losses to remain... ...
Wexler on Iraq: Five Years of Lies
http://groups.google.de/gr oup/freepage-news/t/5b1ce7 ea7e3937bb?hl=en -------- Why? Truthout contributor William Rivers Pitt says, "Five years in Iraq. That's 1,825 days since 'Shock and Awe' lit up... ...
Progressives Poised to Win
Isaiah J. Poole, writing for Campaign for America's Future, says: "A rattled Wall Street. Families imperiled by record foreclosures and rising unemployment. A stymied Congress. A five-year war in Iraq... ...
A financial crisis unmatched since the Great Depression
Putin calls for rouble vigilance as dollar plummets Russian President Vladimir Putin urged his government and Central Bank on Monday to keep a close eye on rouble appreciation as the dollar continues... ...
Stocks Tumble Around World, Dollar Declines After Fed Cuts Rate
UBS AG posted its biggest drop in more than nine years in Zurich and Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. fell to the lowest in four years. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index and Japan's Nikkei... ...
Abu Ghraib Prisoners Packed In Ice Water, Filled Garbage Cans
Muslim prisoners held in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were submerged in water-filled garbage cans with ice or put naked under cold showers in near-freezing rooms until they went into shock, Sgt. Javal Davis,... ...
Bear Stearns Fire-sale sends Global Markets Plunging, Dollar Routed
By Mike Whitney Bear's travails are just the beginning of Wall Street's woes. Now there's talk of Lehman Brothers going under. According to the Wall Street Journal. http://www.infor mationclearinghouse.info/a rticle19552.htm -------- The... ...