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November 2, 2011

Too Big to Jail

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Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money? So why isn't former Citigroup Chairman Robert Rubin breaking a sweat?

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Published on November 02, 2011 23:41

October 26, 2011

Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed

It is class warfare. But it was begun not by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly but rather the financial overlords who control all of the major levers of power in what passes for our democracy.

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Published on October 26, 2011 23:46

October 20, 2011

Let Them Eat Keller

Funny, he doesn't look like Marie Antoinette. But when former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller asks his readers if they are "bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street," it displays the arrogance of disoriented royal privilege.

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Published on October 20, 2011 01:44

October 13, 2011

If a Republican Were President

If a Republican were president, there would be millions of properly coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy Wall Street marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want.

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Published on October 13, 2011 02:21

September 28, 2011

The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Why are Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama just now discovering that there is a jobs crisis in this country?

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Published on September 28, 2011 23:33

September 22, 2011

Murder Is Good Politics, Bad Justice

In my own experience as a journalist covering this issue, the vast majority of politicians who defend capital punishment do so out of rank opportunism.

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Published on September 22, 2011 02:28

September 14, 2011

One Betrayal Too Many

With a record 46.2 million Americans living in poverty, it's getting too late to give President Obama a pass on the economy.

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Published on September 14, 2011 22:07

September 8, 2011

How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11

For a decade, the main questions about 9/11 have gone unanswered while the alleged perpetrators who survived the attacks have never been publicly cross-examined as to their methods and motives.

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Published on September 08, 2011 01:20

August 30, 2011

Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue.

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Published on August 30, 2011 23:15

August 23, 2011

Amnesty for the Indefensible

The administration has rushed to the aid of the banks once again and is attempting to intimidate the few state attorneys general who have the gumption to protect the public interest they are sworn to serve.

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Published on August 23, 2011 22:59

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