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The Calls to Fire Eric Holder Should Worry Wall Street
There’s recently been a sharp increase in the bipartisan calls to fire Eric Holder, an opinion we endorse. We want the Obama administration to fire Eric Holder and replace him with someone who will prosecute Wall Street.
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U.S. Injustice Department: "Collateral Consequences" Prohibit Prosecuting Criminals
The U.S. Justice Department has established that too-big-to-fail financial institutions are immune from federal prosecution. But the vast majority of individual corporate criminals are being protected as well.
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In AP Scandal, Mainstream Media Gets a Taste of Government Medicine
Corporate media just got nailed with a crackdown on whistleblowing, the kind activists have experienced in heavy doses. Lo and behold, mainstream journalists don't like what they're being told to swallow.
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Is Your Money Safe in a "Too Big to Fail" Bank?
The next crisis will likely be due to the staggering derivatives trade: the current exposure in derivatives at "too big to fail" banks exceeds the total world's gross domestic product.
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Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama
Obama's attack on civil liberties go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain. He doesn't gain anything from it – he doesn't get any political mileage out of it.
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Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Security Letters
Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
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Petition Power: More than 330,000 Reject Holder's “Too Big to Jail”
Activists on Tuesday delivered more than 330,000 signatures to U.S. Department of Justice offices calling on the Obama Administration to reject Eric Holder’s declaration that some financial institutions are too big to jail.
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When Our "Government of Laws" Is Above the Law
Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking for the administration with an alarmingly casual nonchalance, traduced the whole notion of a nation of laws.
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Fallout from "Untouchables": Another Wall Street Whistleblower Gets Reamed
Two very interesting and upsetting footnotes to the groundbreaking PBS documentary have emerged in the last weeks.
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The Incestuous Relationship Between Bankers, Business and Congress
The revolving door between Wall Street and Washington — where the same people who run our banks and financial institutions also run our government — has reached an intolerable level. This is not democracy: this is an incest fest.