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Strange Death of American Revolution (Jada Thacker)
At the heart of the American experiment was always a tension between oligarchy and democracy, with the oligarchs usually holding the upper hand. However, in recent decades, the struggle has taken a ...
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Is Bank of America Headed Toward Collapse? (Sarah Jaffe)
Aug. 14, 2011 (AlterNet) -- Bank of America is no stranger to controversy. The largest bank in the United States has seen, in just the last six months, nationwide protests of its branches by groups ...
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Salvaging Health (John Michael Greer)
Aug 10 2011 (The Archdruid Report) -- The old chestnut about living in interesting times may not actually be a Chinese curse, as today’s urban folklore claims, but it certainly comes to mind when ...
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Philly Fed’s factory index in August freefall (Greg Robb)
Regional gauge falls to negative 30.7, stunning markets Aug. 18, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Factory activity in the Philadelphia region weakened sharply in August to the lowest level seen ...
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SEC may have destroyed documents, senator says (Ronald D. Orol)
Aug. 18, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission may have destroyed documents and compromised enforcement cases involving activity at large banks and hedge funds ...
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Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? (Matt Taibbi)
A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals. Aug. ...
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U.S. Stocks Tumble on Global Growth Concerns, Economic Reports (Rita Nazareth)
Aug. 18, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks slumped after Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for global growth and government data showed that jobless claims rose and consumer inflation accelerated more ...
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Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 1 (William D. Cohan)
Illustration by Ian Michael Rousey & Chris Nosenzo Aug. 7, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- What will it take for Americans to finally get the message that much of Wall Street, in its current form, is a corrupt ...
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High Corn (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2011 -- Looking every inch the Assistant Manager of a J.C. Penney, Rick Perry of Texas stepped on-board the touring evangelical freak show that the ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- August 15, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation -- Aug. 15, 2011 May 20-Aug. 28 International Center of Photography, "Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945" exhibit. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, ...
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Life in an Age of Looting: 'Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun and Some with a Fountain Pen (Phil Rockstroh)
Aug. 12, 2011 (World News Trust) -- As the poor of Britain rise in a fury of inchoate rage and stock exchanges worldwide experience manic upswings and panicked swoons, the financial elite (and their ...
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