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Edward Snowden is an American hero who has significantly raised public awareness about the United States' government's threat to global freedom by using extreme and illegal measures of surveillance.
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Obama’s Bogus Explanation For Troubles: Too Much Regulation
By Peter S. Goodman HUFFINGTON POST Now he has done it again, throwing a bone to financial lobbyists and their brethren in other industries while burying truth. Unable to point to real gains in fixing the economy, Obama instead engages … Continue reading
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Why You Should Feel Cheated, Deceived and Sickened by America’s Stunning Inequality, Even If You’re Doing Well
By Paul Buchheit AlterNet If middle- and upper-middle-class families had the same share of the economic pie as in 1980, they’d be making an average of $12,500 more per year. Why should a relatively prosperous upper-middle-class family care about inequality? … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks
By Ed Vulliamy GUARDIAN “What I am objecting to is not one particular bank, but a system of structures,” he told the Observer. “I have worked for major banks other than Julius Baer, and the one thing on which I … Continue reading
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The Progressive Case Against Obama’s New Team
By Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research HUFFINGTON POST This is the small matter that leads progressives to be unhappy with the renewed dominance of the Clinton economic team. If progressives had devised policies that … Continue reading
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The Bill Daley Problem
By Simon Johnson HUFFINGTON POST Top bankers, including Bill Daley, have pulled off a complete snow job — including since the crisis broke in fall 2008. They have put forward their special interests while claiming to represent the general interest. … Continue reading
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Economists: It Doesn’t Look Good For U.S. Economy In Next Decade
By Mark Felsenthal Reuters … the United States has failed to learn its lesson from the financial crisis and continues to implicitly back its largest financial institutions. To hear a number of prominent economists tell it, it doesn’t look good … Continue reading
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For The Jobless, Cold Comfort In “Improving” Economy
By Lila Shapiro HUFFINGTON POST New York — This week, the economy flashed multiple signs of improvement, from encouragingly brisk expansion on the factory floor to a slowdown in layoffs. Yet for the 15 million Americans still officially without work, … Continue reading
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Most Americans Say Tax The Rich To Balance The Budget: Poll
REUTERS Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday. President Barack Obama last month signed into law a two-year extension of Bush-era … Continue reading
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Fraud at Washington Post Inc.
At Kaplan University ‘Guerilla Registration’ Leaves Students Deep In Debt By Chris Kirkham HUFFINGTON POST Arlen Castillo had just begun an online associate’s degree program at Kaplan University when a family emergency forced a change of plans. Her mother in … Continue reading
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