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BP: Billionaire Polluter
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Center for Biological Diversity: Lawsuit Launched to Protect Polar Bears From Interior Secretary Salazar's Arctic Offshore Drilling Plan

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Clean Up More Than Just the Spill
http://act.commondreams.org/go/518?akid=51.124981._iyc8X&t=18

One Case Against BP, Wall Street, and War
http://act.commondreams.org/go/521?akid=51.124981._iyc8X&t=24

Friends of the Earth Responds to Gulf Oil Spill with TV Ad Taking on Palin, Steele and ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
http://act.commondreams.org/go/526?akid=51.124981._iyc8X&t=34

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WSJ unfazed by catastrophe in Gulf of Mexico
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9576/



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Eine US-Klinik praktiziert "aversive Therapie" mit eigens entwickelten Elektroschockgeräten und anderen Strafmaßnahmen, ein Bericht bezichtigt diese nun der Folter.

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Lessons From the Past: Arizona, Immigration and Ethnic Studies

Derek Chang, Truthout: "In a little less than two weeks, my son's fourth-grade class will visit a historic site called the Eight Square Schoolhouse in Dryden, New York. Designed by a local carpenter and built in 1827, it is the only octagonal schoolhouse still standing in New York State. It was used as a school for some 114 years, and the building's significance, I'm told, lies in its shape. Octagonal buildings were thought to be sturdier, possess better ventilation, provide more interior space and allow for the teacher to be the focus of the students' attention to a greater degree."

http://www.truthout.org/lessons-from-past-arizona-immigration-and-ethnic-studies59242



Behind the Immigration Law

Video

Investigative reporter Greg Palast explains why the immigration law in Arizona is intended to prevent Latino voters from reaching the polls.

http://www.truthout.org/greg-palast-behind-immigration-law-video59306

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UN Experts: Arizona Immigration Law Violates Human Rights
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Powerless in Arizona

The American Prospect
by Gabriel Arana

05/13/10

The story of Hispanics’ political powerlessness in Arizona is partly a story about big demographic trends. Since the 1990s, the state has seen an influx of two groups: white Midwesterners and undocumented workers from Mexico. The swell of Midwestern retirees and families to the Phoenix area follows a pattern of migration from post-industrial cities in the middle of the country to the Sun Belt, where the cost of living is lower and economic opportunities more fruitful. In addition, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the rate of illegal immigration to the state jumped 70 percent between 2000 and 2008. Experts say the influx of the two groups has led to a cultural clash and strengthened the conservative base in Maricopa County, which dominates state politics...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=powerless_in_arizona


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Outlawing Latinos' Heritage

By Eugene Robinson

Arizona is already facing criticism and boycotts over its "breathing while Latino" law, which in essence requires police to identify and jail undocumented immigrants. Now the state adds insult to that injury.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25445.htm



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Paul Kiel, ProPublica: "Millions of homeowners face losing their homes in the continuing foreclosure crisis, but homeowners often have more than the struggling economy and slumping house prices to worry about: Disorganization within the big banks that service mortgages has made a bad problem worse."

http://www.truthout.org/disorganization-banks-causing-mistaken-foreclosures59183

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Break Up the Banks: By the Numbers
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Shadow Inventory

A "Lost Decade" Ahead For Housing

By Mike Whitney

"The U.S. government's massive share of the nation's mortgage market grew even larger during the first quarter. Government-related entities backed 96.5% of all home loans during the first quarter, up from 90% in 2009, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25402.htm



Chase's Foreclosure Disgrace

Here's the problem with the Obama Administration's approach to foreclosure prevention: it depends entirely on the banks voluntarily doing the right thing, even when homeowners have held up their end of the bargain to prevent a foreclosure.

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Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Citigroup has just announced that its profits for just the first three months of this year totaled an incredible $4.4 billion, Goldman Sachs' haul was $3.5 billion, JPMorgan Chase grabbed $3.3 billion and Bank of America took $3.2 billion."

http://www.truthout.org/wall-street-profits-subsidies-and-lobbyists59172



Rep. Bob Ney After Prison: "Money Is the Problem"

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "Get the money out of Washington. It's an ongoing refrain now, from the left and even from those in the Tea Party movement. Too much corruption, too little trust. Jack Abramoff, the superstar lobbyist whose spectacular fall brought down then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was the very public face of the problem of lobbying when he headed off to jail, and he is the subject of Alex Gibney's newest documentary, 'Casino Jack and the United States of Money.'"

http://www.truthout.org/rep-bob-ney-after-prison-money-problem-video59191



Wall Street's Big Banks Are the Problem

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Why is the Federal Trade Commission threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase or any of the other four remaining giant banks on Wall Street?"

http://robertreich.org/post/572112065/apple-isnt-the-problem-wall-streets-big-banks-are

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Kagan: - Goldman Sachs - Shifting Court to Right?

By Institute for Public Accuracy

"A narrow elite is imposing itself through the legal system, and ordinary Americans need to start asserting themselves."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25412.htm



Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Will Move the Court to the Right

During her confirmation hearing for solicitor general, Kagan agreed with Senator Lindsey Graham that the president can hold suspected terrorists indefinitely during wartime, and the entire world is a battlefield.

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Here’s how to defuse it.

Christian Science Monitor
by US Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)

05/04/10

American leaders on the left and right are increasingly acknowledging that unless we take dramatic steps to reduce our deficits and debt, we may face not just another economic crisis but the end of American prosperity and leadership as we know it. No one knows precisely when we will reach this economic tipping point, but I would argue we have no more than five years to put ourselves on a sustainable course. Change on this scale does not happen overnight. The time to start making hard choices is now...

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Shadow banking

The American Prospect
by Nomi Prins

05/04/10

Despite all the noise about financial reform, the shadow banking system that helped create the financial crisis would remain fundamentally unaltered by the legislation now pending in Congress. Indeed, leveraged entities such as private-equity, venture-capital, and hedge funds get only minor regulatory attention. These barely regulated, nontransparent bastions of speculation propagated systemic risks beyond any that could be created by the banks themselves. Whether housed at banks, created by banks, or freestanding, they exist to enable speculative risk-taking hidden from either regulatory or market scrutiny while camouflaging layers of debt and enabling the complex-securitization deals that caused the financial collapse. Yet, neither the House bill passed last December nor the most recent Senate bill submitted by Sen. Chris Dodd does more than impose marginal adjustments on the shadow banking system...

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War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

By Chris Hedges

"The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief."

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How the US Helps al-Qaida

By Matthew Harwood

US foreign policy brings terrorism to American shores, costs taxpayers billions of dollars and destroys cherished liberties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25381.htm



2001 Anthrax Attack

The CIA, Biowarfare and Terrorism

Must listen interview with Professor Francis Boyle

Was the 2001 anthrax attack an attempt to foment a police state?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25373.htm



Christian 'Doctrine' Fueled Dehumanization

By Valerie Taliman

A groundbreaking report examining the roots of Christian domination over indigenous peoples and their lands was released this week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25378.htm

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Voting for War. Take Your Pick

John Pilger, Truthout: "Staring at the vast military history section in the airport shop, I had a choice: the derring-do of psychopaths or scholarly tomes with their illicit devotion to the cult of organized killing. There was nothing I recognized from reporting war. Nothing on the spectacle of children's limbs hanging in trees and nothing on the burden of s... in your trousers. War is a good read. War is fun. More war please."

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