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Foreclosure deal near as banks win more immunity (Aruna Viswanatha)
Oct. 19, 2011 (Reuters) -- Talks between U.S. states and top banks over mortgage abuses are nearing agreement on a major sticking point that has bogged down settlement negotiations for more than a ...
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My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Hit bankers where it hurts (Matt Taibbi)
Protesters with the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement demonstrate in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oct. 12, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- I've been down to "Occupy Wall Street" twice now, and I love ...
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Freedom Plaza Is Now Ours (David Swanson)
David Swanson David Swanson -- World News Trust Oct. 11, 2011 -- And we're never giving it back. Our permit for Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., expired, we refused to leave, and the Park Police ...
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Why the Elites Are in Trouble (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 10, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17. She had a tent, a ...
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Attorneys General Settlement: The Next Big Bank Bailout? (Matt Taibbi)
A foreclosure sign hangs on a fence in front of a foreclosed home in Richmond, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Oct. 5, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Amidst all the bad news coming out of Wall ...
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Occupy Together: The Best Among (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Sept. 30, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or ...
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Is The War On Terror A Hoax? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Paul Craig Roberts Sept. 30, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, all ...
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Amnesty for the Indefensible (Robert Scheer)
Aug. 23, 2011 (TruthDig) -- They will get away with it, at least in this life. “They” are the Wall Street usurers, people of a sort condemned in Scripture, who have brought more misery to this ...
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SEC may have destroyed documents, senator says (Ronald D. Orol)
Aug. 18, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission may have destroyed documents and compromised enforcement cases involving activity at large banks and hedge funds ...
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Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 1 (William D. Cohan)
Illustration by Ian Michael Rousey & Chris Nosenzo Aug. 7, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- What will it take for Americans to finally get the message that much of Wall Street, in its current form, is a corrupt ...
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Colombia: Pillage, Promise and Peace (James Petras)
Aug. 6, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- We live in a time of great destruction and grand economic opportunities and Latin America is no exception. In the global context, the U.S. Empire is ...
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