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Jamie Dimon’s Loss Could Be America’s Gain

May 13, 2012
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Since the financial train wreck of September 2008, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, has fought tooth and nail against any new federal regulations of Wall Street. Now with his bank’s recent loss of $2 billion (and counting) involving the same credit default swaps (CDSs) that played a key role in bringing...

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Political Dog Tales: Fala, Checkers, Freckles, and Seamus

May 8, 2012
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The most famous dog story in American politics came from then vice-presidential candidate Richard Milhous Nixon (who was also the Republican Senator from the great state of California). Known ever since simply as the “Checkers speech,” the dog yarn that Nixon deployed on national...

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Protesting Students, Striking Faculty

May 2, 2012
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As the student loan debt in the United States surpasses $1 trillion for the first time in the nation’s history thirteen courageous students from six California State University campuses will be engaging in civil disobedience in the form of a hunger strike until university...

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Breaking the Code of Omertà at Goldman Sachs

March 19, 2012
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“It makes me ill how callously people still talk about ripping off clients,” the Goldman Sachs whistleblower, Greg Smith, wrote in his March 14th public resignation letter. The 33-year-old...

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Now is the Time to Leave Afghanistan

February 27, 2012
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Cultural insensitivity of the kind illustrated by the recent Koran burnings at Bagram Air Base might be an understandable lapse in the first months of a military occupation, but...

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The Republicans Used a Base Strategy in 2004 and 2010, Can it Work in 2012?

February 22, 2012
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The same corporate media pundits who assured us back in 2000 that George W. Bush, given the contested presidential election, would have to “move to the center” are today...

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