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Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy (Greg Kaufmann)
Nov. 3, 2010 (The Nation) -- On this Election Day, when Democrats stand to suffer at the polls, and fewer voters have registered than in previous midterm elections, it seems sadly ironic that ACORN ...
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The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy: How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections (Joshua Holland)
Oct. 27, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Election 2010 is being fought on a wave of campaign dollars unleashed on the American people by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United v. FEC decision. The court, led ...
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Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs? (Declan McCullagh)
Oct. 27, 2010 (CNET News) -- Forget China or Al Qaeda. In a twist that would have been inconceivable even a few months ago, the WikiLeaks.org Web site is being proposed as the first public target ...
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WikiLeaks and Assange Honored (Ray McGovern)
Oct. 25, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- You are not likely to learn this from the “mainstream media,” but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates ...
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Iraq War Logs: Secret Files Show How US Ignored Torture (Nick Davies, Jonathan Steele and David Leigh)
Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse. 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war Oct. 22, 2010 (the Guardian/UK) -- A grim picture of the U.S. and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a ...
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Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)
Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter (Josh Halliday)
Editor-in-chief of controversial whistleblowing website says US technology magazine 'has an agenda and is not to be trusted' Oct. 19, 29010 (guardian.co.uk) -- The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian ...
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Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)
Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, ...
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BOOKS: Empire for Liberty. By Richard H. Immerman (Jim Miles)
Empire for Liberty. Richard H. Immerman. Princeton University Press, 2010. Oct. 15, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- History takes on an interesting life when written as well as Richard Immerman’s new ...
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Wells Fargo: No halt to foreclosures (Mark Calvey)
Oct. 8, 2010 (San Francisco Business Times) -- Wells Fargo said Friday it has no plans to adopt a foreclosure moratorium despite Bank of America’s decision today to halt all foreclosures. “Wells ...
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Government had Been Warned for Months about Troubles in Mortgage Servicer Industry (Zachary A. Goldfarb)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, ...
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