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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/04/30

Corruption Threatening Global Steps to Combat Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/01-2

Banks Should Pay for Foreclosures
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/01-0

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Our chronic cronyism ? and corruption

Our Future Blog
by Sam Pizzigati

05/01/11

America s top bankers and CEOs don t have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. We Americans, former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman told a reporter last week, 'no longer have a democracy.' Instead, Stockman charged, we have 'crony capitalism,' a system that s rigging the economy to benefit the powerful few - at everyone else?s expense...

http://tinyurl.com/3e9bvqs



Who s right, Americans or economists?

Automatic Earth
by staff

04/29/11

There appears to be a huge gap between how Americans see the US economy, and how economists do. Indeed, there is such a widening chasm between the two that one could be inclined to think they can t both be taken seriously at the same time...

http://tinyurl.com/6258mgv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Reagan Budget Director: 'Absolutely' Raise Taxes, Just Like Reagan Did

Alex Seitz-Wald, Think Progress: 'As Washington considers ways to rein in the deficit, Republicans have obstinately demanded that any tax revenue increases be taken off the table, claiming that raising taxes during a down economy would doom the recovery. As evidence, they often point to the presidency of Ronald Reagan, claiming his massive 1981 tax cuts caused that decade s economic boom. But this anti-tax position makes it almost impossible to do anything serious about the deficit, since - despite GOP talking points - the country has a revenue problem, not a spending problem. On ABC s This Week today, Reagan s own budget director, David Stockman, exposed the GOP tax cut 'theology' for the ahistorical sham it is.'

http://www.truth-out.org/reagan-budget-director-absolutely-raise-taxes-just-reagan-did/1304355215



US Uncut New York City Teach-In at Bank of America

Video

US Uncut: 'US Uncut, a new decentralized direct action group, held teach-ins inside two Bank of America branches in New York City on Saturday. The classes were held to discuss the inherently corrupt bank bailouts, the 'tax-avoidance' of huge US corporations by which two-thirds of US corporations pay zero taxes and what kind of action we the people can take to stop the massive tax-payer funded transfer of wealth from the poor and to the rich.'

http://www.truth-out.org/us-uncut-new-york-city-teach-bank-america/1304349450



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