Looting the Lives of the PoorBarbara Ehrenreich, Op-Ed: The predatory activities of local governments give new meaning to that tired phrase “the cycle of poverty.” Poor people are more far more likely than the affluent to get into trouble with the law, either by failing to pay parking fines or by incurring the wrath of a private-sector creditor like a landlord or a hospital. |
Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says StudyBy Christine Shearer, Truthout | Report |
ALEC’s next target: state AGs who go after companiesBeth Hawkins | MinnPost: “Just as a private attorney cannot bring a suit on behalf of a client without the client agreeing and authorizing such action, and then only within the guidelines allowed by the client, so it should be with the attorney general. Rather than an attorney general deciding on his or her own what authority the office may have to bring a lawsuit, the authority should be defined by the state as reflected by the specific decisions of the legislature via statute. The legislature, not the attorney general, is best positioned to balance the competing concerns that go into the decision of whether to allow a cause of action and under what circumstances.” |
ALEC and corporate fingerprints are all over national push for online learning
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ALEC Has Deep Ties, Big Money in Wisconsin Lawmakers and Governor
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Romney Defends JP Morgan’s $3 Billion Trading Debacle After Collecting Millions From the Financial Industry
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Kucinich on NDAA: Is this Who We Are as a Nation?
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In U.S. Steel Town, Fatal Gas Explosion Goes Unpunished by OSHA
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Monsanto’s Mass ‘Super Weeds’ Force Sustainable Farming
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Twenty-Two States File Brief Asking Supreme Court to Back Off Citizens United
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The Derivative Economy: Can High Finance Get Any Lower?
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How Rural America Got Fracked
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Official List of 29 2B2F Banks Released
The Official list of the 29 banks that are considered too big to fail was released this morning. The list, as determined by a G20 cabal known as the Financial Stability Board, are the members of the Globally Systemically Important Financial Institutions club.
- Bank of America (US)
- Bank of New York Mellon (US)
- Citigroup (US)
- Goldman Sachs (US)
- J.P. Morgan (US)
- Morgan Stanley (US)
- State Street (US)
- Wells Fargo (US)
- BNP Paribas SA (France)
- Banque Populaire (France)
- Crédit Agricole SA (France)
- Société Générale SA (France)
- Barclays PLC (UK)
- HSBC Holdings PLC (UK)
- Lloyds Banking Group PLC (UK)
- Royal Bank of Scotland PLC (UK)
- Mitsubishi UFJ FG (Japan)
- Mizuho FG (Japan)
- Sumitomo Mitsui FG (Japan)
- Commerzbank AG (Germany)
- Deutsche Bank AG (Germany)
- UBS AG (Switzerland)
- Credit Suisse AG (Switzerland)
- Dexia SA (Belgium)
- Bank of China (China)
- Unicredit Group SA (Italy)
- ING Groep NV (Netherlands)
- Banco Santander SA (Spain)
- Nordea AB (Sweden)