No one is willing to sign a serious climate agreement. The Americans can't even given an indication of how much they'll cut. When asked, they say nope – because Congress still has to debate the issue.
Big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail, a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank proposes.
Dark pools, private venues used to match large trades, have triggered concerns that stock pricing may not be transparent and that a privileged few are benefiting. There are more than 40 U.S.
Barack Obama promised a sharp break from the Bush era, yet he seems to have stepped into the shoes of his disgraced predecessor. But why? How?
This article is about the demise of the dollar, a move that's been in the works for years and was propelled forward by the collapse and printing of money on the watch of "Hank" Paulson, the 74th United States Treasury Secretary, during the waning days of the Bush administration.
Cold water absorbs more carbon than warm water. As a result, the Arctic Ocean is turning into a corrosive acid eating away the shells of mollusks and other animals supporting the food chain (including salmon).
The UK became the 16th country to report contamination of its food chain on Monday, when the UK Food Standards Agency reported the illegal GMO in cereals and bakery products on the European Food Safety Authority's Rapid Alert System web site
Progressives will pressure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Public Option.
Bundling life-insurance policies will make billions for Goldman Sachs and other corporations and wealthy investors but will raise the price of life-insurance for the person buying life-insurance.
High-ranking government officials are usually protected from claims that they violated a person's civil rights. In lawsuits stemming from law enforcement and intelligence efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks, three federal courts have left open the possibility that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a lieutenant may be held personally liable.
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A thoughtful essay on how telling lies is part of the public expectation and what the public actually gets. Lying is easier, since the liar knows ahead of time what people want to hear... and then gives it to them.
The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year is simple: What constitutional rights should corporations have? The Supreme Court seems poised to give corporations even more rights.
The Nemesis of the right, of capitalism, and the Champion of Working Men and Women, Michael Moore: criticized by liberals for being impolite, avoided by those who shun exposure, and now the new movie!
The Iraqi man who threw his shoe at then-President Bush explains why he did it. He was moved by the destruction and the hatred of the American occupation across Iraq.
In his new tape bin Laden warns that unless the US changes its support of Israel occupying Palestinian lands, and unless the war in Afghanistan ends, the war against America will continue.
In 2008, the 20 financial chief executives whose firms have received the most bailout money received average pay packages worth 34 times the president's $400,000 annual salary--319 times more than average American workers.
Young folks in college are using meditation as a way of countering the stress of daily life. The article tells the story of one meditation center in Massachusetts having retreats restricted to young adults.
This shocking story presents evidence that Israeli forces capture Palestinians allegedly to take out their organs and sell them and also take Palestinians they just killed and helicopter the body into Israel.
Greenland's ice is melting more rapidly than anyone predicted. f the Greenland ice sheet disappeared sea levels around the world would rise by seven metres, as 10% of the world's fresh water is currently frozen here.
The basic story of the banking industry is that these folks have the system set up so that they should make money pretty much regardless of interest rates or bad speculative bets because all the risk falls on the taxpayers.
The new CEO of AIG has $10 million in remuneration for the job of running a company the Feds gave $180 Billion of taxpayer dollars to support. There has been no reform in the financial industry which was the promise explicit in the bailout.
Capitalists, as my friend Father Michael Doyle says, should never be allowed near a health care system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice.
Obama wants the case dismissed and one judge says he feels like Alice in Wonderland. This case illustrates even the present administration's desire to keep the American public in the dark about the degree to which we have been illegally spied upon...
Robert Wright, whose most recent book is "The Evolution of God," sings the praises of doing meditation for a week in Western Massachusetts and describes some of the attitudinal changes he experienced.
David Swanson points out in this short video that the public option is essential to an Obama Health Care Reform bill.
A brutal report issued Monday by a government watchdog holds Timothy Geithner -- then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now the nation's Treasury Secretary -- responsible for overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Stree …
No one is willing to sign a serious climate agreement. The Americans can't even given an indication of how much they'll cut. When asked, they say nope – because Congress still has to debate the issue.
A Free Credit Report that is not free.
" After three days of encounters with America-bashing Pakistanis - who rejected her contention that the U.S. and Pakistan face a common enemy - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that "we're not getting through."
Big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail, a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank proposes.
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