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AP / Julia Xanthos
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By Robert Scheer — In the pantheon of billionaires without shame, Michael Bloomberg, the Wall Street banker-turned-business-press-lord-turned-mayor, is now secure at the top.
Posted on Nov 17, 2011
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AP / Damian Dovarganes
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By Robert Scheer — There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, who usually get off with a fine and a promise not to do it again, and again and again.
Posted on Nov 10, 2011
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money? So why isn’t former Citigroup Chairman Robert Rubin breaking a sweat?
Posted on Nov 2, 2011
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AP / Jay Finneburgh
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By Robert Scheer — It is class warfare. But it was begun not by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly but rather the financial overlords who control all of the major levers of power in what passes for our democracy.
Posted on Oct 26, 2011
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AP / Andrew Burton
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By Robert Scheer — Funny, he doesn’t look like Marie Antoinette. But when former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller asks his readers if they are “bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street,” it displays the arrogance of disoriented royal privilege.
Posted on Oct 20, 2011
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AP / Mike Carlson
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By Robert Scheer — If a Republican were president, there would be millions of properly coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy Wall Street marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want.
Posted on Oct 13, 2011
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AP / Jason DeCrow
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By Robert Scheer — How can anyone possessed of the faintest sense of social justice not thrill to the Occupy Wall Street movement now spreading throughout the country?
Posted on Oct 6, 2011
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Why are Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama just now discovering that there is a jobs crisis in this country?
Posted on Sep 28, 2011
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — In my own experience as a journalist covering this issue, the vast majority of politicians who defend capital punishment do so out of rank opportunism.
Posted on Sep 22, 2011
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — With a record 46.2 million Americans living in poverty, it’s getting too late to give President Obama a pass on the economy.
Posted on Sep 14, 2011
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AP / Brennan Linsley
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By Robert Scheer — For a decade, the main questions about 9/11 have gone unanswered while the alleged perpetrators who survived the attacks have never been publicly cross-examined as to their methods and motives.
Posted on Sep 8, 2011
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AP / Ed Zurga
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By Robert Scheer — Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue.
Posted on Aug 30, 2011
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Robert Scheer — The administration has rushed to the aid of the banks once again and is attempting to intimidate the few state attorneys general who have the gumption to protect the public interest they are sworn to serve.
Posted on Aug 23, 2011
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AP / David J. Phillip
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By Robert Scheer — It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.
Posted on Aug 16, 2011
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Jacob Bøtter (CC-BY)
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By Robert Scheer — The whole thing is nuts. The economy is a shambles, saved from a free fall only by the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented promise of free money for banks for at least two years.
Posted on Aug 9, 2011
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