All Views Articles for 2010-01-15

Friday, January 15, 2010
Glenn Greenwald
Obama Confidant's Spine-Chilling Proposal
Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's head of the Office of Information...
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Brent Budowsky
If Massachusetts Goes Republican, All Hell Breaks Loose with Healthcare!
And that might not be a bad thing
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Mark Schuller
Starfish and Seawalls: Responding to Haiti’s Earthquake, Now and Long-Term
I was not in Haiti for the earthquake. Like everyone I know who has family, friends, or colleagues in Haiti, I was glued to the internet and Skype, desperate for word from our loved ones. Word began...
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Russell Mokhiber
Coakley's Corporate Connection
Martha Coakley is going down in flames. So is the Democratic Party. Why? We found the answer earlier this week at - of all places - The Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Robert Reich
Why Obama Must Take On Wall Street
It has been more than a year since all hell broke loose on Wall Street and, remarkably, almost nothing has been done to prevent all hell from breaking loose again. In fact, close your eyes and you...
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Mary Bottari
Too Big to Fail, Not Too Big for Jail
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today.
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Alan Nasser
Obama’s Latest Ruse: The Bank Tax
When president Obama was awarded Advertising Age's 2009 Marketer of the Year award, we were alerted to expect carefully crafted public relations posturing in defense of the reputation of Brand Obama...
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Dave Lindorff
Cuba is Missing... From US Reports on the International Response to Haiti’s Earthquake
There are only two US media outlets that have reported on Cuba’s response to the deadly 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti. One was Fox News, which claimed, wrongly, that the Cubans were absent from the...
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John Stauber
Where's the Outrage Over Obama's Health Care Propagandist, Jonathan Gruber?
US News and World Report blogger Peter Roff is comparing the Obama Administration 's payments to
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Matthew Rothschild
On the Disaster in Haiti, and the Coverage
The footage from Haiti is absolutely heartbreaking. If you’ve got a loved one in Haiti, my thoughts are with you. I can only imagine the anguish you must feel today. Every person there is precious...
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Paul Krugman
Bankers Without a Clue
The official Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission - the group that aims to hold a modern version of the Pecora hearings of the 1930s, whose investigations set the stage for New Deal bank regulation -...
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Kerry Trueman
Haiti: The Aid Masquerade
The horror in Haiti is beyond anything we can imagine in the U.S., but this apocalyptic catastrophe has something in common with Hurricane Katrina; in both cases, a terrible natural disaster was made...
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David Sirota
Newsflash: Right is Not Center
"War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength"-more than a quarter century after those oxymorons were supposed to pervade an Orwellian 1984, today's media make such newspeak even more...
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Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse
666 to 1: The US Military, al-Qaeda, and a War of Futility
In his book on World War II in the Pacific, War Without Mercy , John Dower tells an extraordinary tale about the changing American image of the Japanese fighting man. In the period before the...
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Chris Hayes
System Failure
There is a widespread consensus that the decade we've just brought to a close was singularly disastrous for the country: the list of scandals, crises and crimes is so long that events that in another...
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