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By Kim Barker, ProPublica —
When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on April 14, her credit card was declined. She later found out why: Her credit card company, Capital One, had flagged an earlier purchase as potentially fraudulent. The problem? A $5 donation to Friends of Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor’s campaign committee, which she claimed not to have made.
Posted on May 21, 2012
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By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch —
Big multinational corporations are making a bucolic region of Wisconsin part of a vast assembly line in the race for the last fossil fuels on the planet, carting off its prehistoric sand to later be forcefully injected into the earth across the country to produce natural gas.
Posted on May 21, 2012
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By Ivo Mijnssen — There is one day when it never rains in Moscow, a day when Russia’s air force literally shoots down rain-bearing clouds with a chemical agent to reinforce the spectacle.
Posted on May 21, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In this election, we’re not having an argument that pits capitalism against socialism. We are trying to decide what kind of capitalism we want.
Posted on May 20, 2012
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By James K. Galbraith, The Baffler —
Two months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, a group of experts and I warned the Obama campaign about the likelihood of a global economic crisis. Not the slightest word came back.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — We hoped we could draw attention to the injustice of the law. None of us thought we would win. But every once in a while the gods smile on the damned.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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By David Sirota — Republicans now insist that America cannot simultaneously walk the walk on equal rights and also chew economic gum.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The soundtrack of my youth is fading. That’s hardly an original observation, I realize, but self-indulgence is a columnist’s inalienable right and music has unique power to summon unbidden waves of nostalgia.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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A decade of war on terror has created a culture of deference in which U.S. officials may restrict American civil liberties in the name of national security. This Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest bravely challenged that culture.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars’ worth of collateralized debt obligations that super-charged the financial meltdown, profited the company enormously and for which it’s seen no punishment. Here’s a roundup of the known charges, settlements, and investigations that stem from those deals.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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By Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch —
The poor provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them. The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — How did we end up with such smart scoundrels? Even after it was known that Jamie Dimon’s bank blew more than $2 billion, Barack Obama still had praise for the intellect of his political backer.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Across America—and particularly in the red states that have rejected gay marriage—divorce rates are continually rising, along with teen pregnancies, out-of-wedlock births and single motherhood (which somehow afflict gay-friendly blue states far less).
Posted on May 17, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Uh-oh! Some people are looking over the right shoulders of the Republicans who rode into the House of Representatives on the tea party wave of 2010. And they don’t like what they’re seeing.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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