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A Nation of "Flatlanders"
Michael Hirsh, Newsweek: "For years we Americans focused obsessively on the 'war on terror.' Now it's financial Armageddon. When are we going to master the art of multitasking?" http://www .truthout.org/092708C S EC... ...
What $700 billion could buy
The Progressive by Ruth Conniff 09/24/08 There is no doubt that the Bush Administration’s massive $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street will pass, in some form, in the coming days. Whether or not... ...
AFL-CIO Leader Slams Bailouts, Demands Help for Working Families
Press Associates, Inc.: "Massive deregulation and federal failure to oversee and discipline markets led to the financial chaos and collapses that have hit the U.S. economy, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney... ...
Paulson's former firm to be among largest beneficiaries of bailout
It certainly pays to be Treasury Secretary if your former firm is a brokerage house, a new study says. http://rawstory.com /news/2008/Paulsons_former _firm_to_be_among_0923.htm l Conflict Of Interest?... ...
America and China Joined at the Hip
By DAVE LINDORFF With the government now having spent over $800 billion in less than a year shoring up tottering financial companies that had become little more than casinos (and rigged ones at that),... ...
After Frantic Day, Wall Street Banks Falter
Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times: "In one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street’s history, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself on Sunday to Bank of America for roughly $50 billion to avert a deepening... ...
Obama and McCain Suck Up to the Bankers
By Robert Scheer Both of our leading presidential candidates are scrambling to enlist not only the big-dollar contributions but, more frighteningly, the "expertise" of the very folks who advocated the... ...
Rising Food Prices Pushing East Africa to Disaster, Warns Oxfam
For The Guardian UK, Xan Rice reports: "More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say. In an emergency... ...
McCain Economic Policy Shaped by Lobbyist
Jonathan Larsen reports for MSNBC News: "Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the US mortgage crisis... ...
The Militarization of America
CounterPunch by Col. Dan Smith 04/02/08 Meeting the need for compact, powerful pistols and other small arms is a vast industry, one that, in the United States, started in the three decades prior to... ...