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The Largest Welfare Check Ever Written: The Rise of the Wall Street Ruling Class (Thomas Volscho)
Dec. 10, 2010 (CounterPunch) -- Who rules America? Sociologists and political scientists have debated this question since C. Wright Mills published his 1956 book The Power Elite. Writing in the ...
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‘The Fourth Estate is dead,’ former CIA analyst declares (Nathan Diebenow)
'The Empire' is 'being threatened by a slingshot in the form of a computer' Dec. 10, 2010 (Raw Story) -- Traditional lines of communication between the people and the press have fallen into such ...
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Whose Side is the White House On? (James K. Galbraith)
Dec. 6, 2010 (NewDeal20.org) -- In a speech given on November 20, 2010 at the ADA Education Fund’s Post-election Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School, Galbraith asks who Obama is really working ...
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Where Are the Financial Crisis Prosecutions? (Jesse Eisinger)
Dec. 8, 2010 (ProPublica) -- You may have noticed that prosecutors in this country are in something of a white-collar slump lately. The stock options backdating prosecutions have largely been a ...
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The President’s Last Stand Is No Stand At All: Why the Tax Deal is an Abomination (Robert Reich)
Dec. 7, 2010 (RobertReich.org) -- The deal the President struck with Republican leaders is an abomination. It will cost $900 billion over the next two years — larger than the bailout of Wall Street, ...
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8-inch robot brings out bomb squad, wreaks rush-hour havoc (Kyle Glazier)
The plastic toy caused street closures near Coors Field while police investigated. ( RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post ) Dec. 2, 2010 (Denver Post) -- A robot met its end near Coors Field on Wednesday ...
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A Real Jaw Dropper at the Federal Reserve (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
Dec. 2, 2010 (Huffington Post) -- At a Senate Budget Committee hearing in 2009, I asked Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to tell the American people the names of the financial institutions that received an ...
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Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks (Amy Goodman)
Dec. 7, 2010 -- CANCUN, Mexico (TruthDig) -- Critical negotiations are under way here in Cancun, under the auspices of the United Nations, to reverse human-induced global warming. This is the first ...
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Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy (Ted Rall)
Dec. 8, 2010 -- NEW YORK (CommonDreams.org) -- After the Soviet collapse in 1991 U.S. policy toward Central Asia was transparently cynical: support the dictators, screw the people. As the United ...
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Stating the Obvious: WikiLeaks Indicts and Vindicates U.S. Diplomats (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust The WikiLeaks vs. the U.S. government saga started in July, when 77,000 secret U.S. documents directly relating to Afghanistan were made available to major media ...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Tax Cut Deal 'Is A Moral Outrage'
Dec. 7, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (sanders.senate.gov) -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on the agreement announced Monday between the White House and congressional ...
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