Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Flawed Foreclosure Review Replaced with Vague $8.5 Billion Settlement
Banking regulators admitted the Independent Foreclosure Review was a big expensive mess and shut it down. But many details about the $8.5 billion settlement that replaces it remain murky.
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Unveiling Greece's Rotten Oligarchy
The Lagarde List - roughly 2,000 Greek citizens with Swiss bank accounts - implicates a corrupt group of officials with offshore companies, friends and relatives of government ministers, bankers, publishers and those involved in the black market.
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New Documents on Activist Surveillance "Just the Tip of the Iceberg"
The security and surveillance state overseen by Barack Obama has empowered the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to obstruct the activity of citizens who question corporate power.
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Debtor Nation: The Financial War Against the Economy At Large
The weapon in today's financial warfare is no larger military force, but a tactic to load economies (governments, companies and families) with debt, siphon off their income as debt service, then foreclose when debtors lack the means to pay.
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Can We Get on Obama’s Ass Now?
We have to hold President Obama accountable with more than just our words. Unless he hears us loud and clear, don’t expect him to do us any favors.
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Cancer Risk Tied to Oil Sands
The development of Alberta’s oil sands has increased levels of cancer-causing compounds in surrounding lakes well beyond natural levels.
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Britain's National Health Service Being "Atomized" by Private Sector
Over 100 private healthcare firms in Britain will be allowed to provide basic care, prompting fears among senior doctors that public hospital services may go out of business.
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Surprise, Surprise: The Banks Win
A settlement reportedly in the works with big banks will soon end a review into foreclosure abuses, and it means more of the same: no accountability for financial institutions and little help for borrowers.
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Renditions Continue Under Obama
The Obama administration has embraced rendition despite widespread condemnation of the tactic.
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Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
It’s not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We’re talking about a fight between human beings and physics.
