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Adding New Floors to the Bailout House of Cards
By Phil Mattera | Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have added a few more floors to their ever-expanding bailout house of cards. Their two agencies kicked in another $800 billion
Read More »ALEXANDER COCKBURN: The Honeymoon is Looking a Bit Wan
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN | Two years without a single leak and suddenly, last week, Obama’s operation was like a sieve. That’s what happens when you pick up the phone and call one of the Clintons.
Read More »Noam Chomsky on the election
There was meeting on November 7, I think of a group of couple, of a dozen advisers to deal with the financial crisis. Their careers were, records were reviewed in the business press, and
Read More »Why Obama should end the criminal “war on terror”
By Gary Kamiya | Barack Obama will confront a daunting list of priorities when he takes office on Jan. 20. Rescuing the nation’s economy — if there’s anything left to rescue by then —
Read More »A catalogue of NHS data breaches
By Leo King | The NHS has lost confidential medical records and personal details of thousands of patients it has emerged in an investigation into how the health service handles data. Research showed that
Read More »Britain cannot afford ID cards
Telegraph | For the first time since 1952, the British government is issuing identity cards. In order to test the system and ease its introduction, there is to be a cynical requirement for foreign
Read More »Rumsfeld’s Attempts to Rewrite Himself on the Right Side of History Are Laughable
By Gary Brecher | The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his advice on Afghanistan. I’ve been following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from Go
Read More »No Amnesty for Bush Administration, Say Torture Opponents
By Ali Gharib | Judging by the rare leaks from President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, investigations and prosecutions of high-level George W. Bush administration officials for torture and war crimes are a distant prospect.
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