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Probe highlights widespread US fraud in Iraq
MSNBC 03/14/10 Investiga tors looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions — involving banks,... ...
Crisis Hits Only Low Income Earners
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... ...
U.S. Monthly Budget Deficit Balloons to a Record
Unemployment rises in 30 states in January Five states reported record-high joblessness in January: California, at 12.5 percent; South Carolina, 12.6 percent; Florida, 11.9 percent; North Carolina, 11.1... ...
Internal report issues black eye for U.S. Embassy in Kabul
The State Department is failing to properly oversee nearly $2 billion in contracts to battle the drug trade, build infrastructure and train police in Afghanistan, according to a bluntly worded internal... ...
Apologize now for the burden future generations will bear
Liberty For All by Barry Fagin 03/09/10 First, you should apologize to your children. You should apologize to them because, if you’re my age, you came into the world when the national debt was about... ...
Obama’s Potemkin Afghanistan
AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 03/10/10 Marjah , by all accounts appearing in the US media, is supposed to have been a city, or at least a major town. Described as containing some 80,000 inhabitants —... ...
Bulldozing the American dream
Reason by Anthony Randazzo 03/08/10 Taxpay ers have already spent more than $111 billion bailing out mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and that’s going to be just the tip of the iceberg. Instead... ...
Defense Department, Inc.
CounterPunch by Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes 03/05/10) Preside nt Obama called his $3.8-trillion budget a big step in restoring America’s economic health. Last year he promoted TARP, the Troubled... ...
End Neuromarketing by Politicians and Companies
VIDEO Matt Renner, Truthout: "Companies spend billions of dollars figuring out how to convince us to buy their stuff, while politicians spend millions trying to get our vote. Informing people about new... ...
Government spending induces counterfeit “expansion”
Freedom's Phoenix by Bill Bonner 03/03/10 There’s good news and bad news … and a lot of news in between. Consumers spent a little more than was expected of them. And manufacturing did a little better... ...