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Take America Back From the Banks

By Dean Baker

Reining in the financial industry's power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23717.htm



Student Loans are the New Indentured Servitude

By Mike Konczal

The prevalence of this debt, especially among the young and the poor/working classes, the transformation from a rounding error amount to a significant burden amount over the past 30 years, the length of term, the idea of mobility and "transport" to a job, debt secured not by property but by personhood, and limited legal recourse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23711.htm



One Nation, Under Illusion

By Neal Gabler

We've been living in a fool's paradise. The result may be a government that is as good as the American people, which is something that should concern everyone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23719.htm



We're Headed for Hooverville?

By Ted Rall

When Bush flew home to Texas, we thought we were getting an FDR to replace a Hoover. Instead, we got another Hoover.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23713.htm



Charge Of The Beckerheads....

By Sheila Samples

I didn't know Van Jones. I didn't know Van Jones was a friend of mine -- at least not until the stench billowing from the Fox Hate Channel became so foul I was forced to take a closer look at this terrifying creature. No -- not Jones, whom President Obama wisely had hired as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23709.htm

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One nation under Beck

Mother Jones
by Stephanie Mencimer

In which our reporter learns about the divine origins of the Constitution at a Tea Party seminar...

http://tinyurl.com/23jz8vf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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