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"Suck on Our Yachts": Goldman Sachs Issues Non-Apology for Destroying the World Economy
AlterNet, True/Slant - by Matt Taibbi - Jun. 22, 2009 (Opinion)
Goldman is bragging about the fact that it actually made money while it was pumping the economy full of explosive leverage. While companies like Lehman and Bear were dumb ...
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Leftover Policies Pose a Challenge to Obama's Cairo Message
AlterNet - by Byard Duncan - Jun. 8, 2009 (Opinion)
absent from Obama's comments was the promise to address existing policies of exceptionalism and hostility that continue to rot American foreign policy from the inside out. ...
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Why Does the Much-Touted Climate Bill Look Like It Was Stolen From the Republican Playbook?
AlterNet - by David Morris - Jun. 7, 2009 (News Analysis)
President Barack Obama has publicly described the bill as his and the Democrats' preferred alternative to regulation. Without the bill, he has threatened, the EPA will ...
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Neocon US Colonel Calls for Military Attacks on "Partisan Media"
AlterNet, Rebel Reports - by Jeremy Scahill - May. 31, 2009 (News Analysis)
A new report for a leading neoconservative group which pushes a belligerent “Israel first” agenda of conquest in the Middle East suggests that in future wars the US should ...
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That Didn’t Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise to President Obama
AlterNet, The Seminal - by Jason Rosenbaum - May. 18, 2009 (Opinion)
Just four days after standing next to President Obama and declaring their commitment to control health care costs to the tune of $2 trillion over 10 years, the insurance ...
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Michael Pollan: "Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised" | Environment
AlterNet - by Amy Goodman - May. 15, 2009 (Investigative Report)
"We’re still kind of investigating. But the best knowledge we have is that this outbreak came from a very large industrial pork operation, pork confinement operation, where, ...
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40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation
AlterNet - by James Carville - May. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
People want to know, "Why did the American public let this happen?" "Why didn't the press do something?" And, of course, "Where were the Democrats?" These pained and ...
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Did Paranoid Right-Wing Media Fuel the Pittsburgh Cop Killer's Rage?
AlterNet - by Max Blumenthal - Apr. 8, 2009 (News Analysis)
Poplawski was a neo-Nazi wannabe who railed against blacks, Jews, "Zionists," and gun control. And like many members of the far-right fringe, he allegedly visited Jones' Web ...
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'Too Big to Fail' Is Too Big -- Period
AlterNet - by Jim Hightower - Apr. 6, 2009 (Opinion)
one way to get your bearings in this bailout blizzard is to focus on the central point that both the bailors (Washington) and the bailees (Wall Street) keep pounding as an ...
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283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries: The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
AlterNet - by Jeremy Scahill - Mar. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Whether or not the Obama administration actually intends to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq in numbers large enough to claim to be "ending the war" as many believe, this kind ...
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The Problem With The Public Option Is That It Lowers The Cost Of Health Insurance
AlterNet - by Chris Bowers - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
It is pretty amazing that many moderates and industry figures are actually arguing that the problem with including a public option in health care reform legislation is that a ...
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The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back
AlterNet, TruthDig - by Chris Hedges - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Our economic crisis -- despite the corporate media circus around the death of Michael Jackson or Gov. Mark Sanford's marital infidelity or the outfits of Sacha Baron Cohen's ...
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Why Does Our Government Still Spy On, Arrest and Persecute Dissidents?
AlterNet, Consortium News - by Emily Spence - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
there's a certain inescapable irony and disingenuous quality presented by the Western government heads who are harshly critical of the Iran crackdown on dissenting citizens ...
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Obama Has Become Radical in His Commitment to Secrecy
AlterNet, Huffington Post - by Martin Garbus - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Obama's campaign promise was for a transparent government, yet this past Friday, after 3pm, hoping to avoid the weekend news cycle, his administration announced major events ...
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Hey Progressives, Join Forces to Fight the Health Insurance Industry! | Health and Wellness
AlterNet - by Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies. Posted June 29, 2009. Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies. Posted June 29, 2009. Karen Dolan - Jun. 29, 2009 (Opinion)
Single-payer and public option advocates are fighting each other. We must remember that we're on the same side.
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The Food Industry's Darkest Secrets
TruthOut, AlterNet - by Tara Lohan - Jun. 25, 2009 (Review)
It turns out that figuring out the most simple thing - like what's on your dinner plate, and where it came from - is actually a pretty subversive act.
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Neocons Are Clueless About Iran
AlterNet, The Nation - by Leslie Savan - Jun. 22, 2009 (Opinion)
See how it works? Obama is weak because he won't scream denunciations at Ahmadinejad; if only he would, then Ahmadinejad would have a more secure hold on power -- which (to ...
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While the Economy Crashes and Burns, Bush Loyalists Are Making a Killing
AlterNet - by Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. Posted June 19, 2009. - Jun. 19, 2009 (News Report)
They shredded our economic safety nets, but for them jobs are plentiful and lucrative. You'll be surprised to know who's cashing in and where.
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This Week in God: Obama White House Meets with (Gasp!) Atheists
AlterNet, Washington Monthly - by Steve Benen - Jun. 13, 2009 (News Report)
Last week, the Secular Coalition for America, an atheist advocacy group, held its first-ever individual face-to-face with the White House. Ron Millar, the coalition's acting ...
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We're Screwed on Everything From Health Care to the Economy If the Dems Don't Shape Up
AlterNet, The Nation - by William Greider - Jun. 9, 2009 (Opinion)
If not now, when? That question ought to haunt the Democratic Party and President Obama, who has been missing in action himself on key issues. Congressional Democrats are ...
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