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By Brad Friedman

We'll look at the answers given by Edmonds during her deposition in regard to bribery and blackmail of current and former members of the U.S. Congress, including Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased) and an unnamed, currently-serving, married Democratic Congresswoman said to have been video-taped in a Lesbian affair by Turkish agents for blackmail purposes.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23442.htm

 

Words Matter

By Ralph Nader

Ever wonder what's happening to words once they fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists? Too often reporters and editors don't wonder enough. They ditto the words even when the result is deception or doubletalk.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23446.htm

 

Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows

By Thom Shanker

The United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 percent of all business in the global arms bazaar, up significantly from American sales of $25.4 billion the year before.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23443.htm

 

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Simon Johnson: We're Setting Ourselves Up For A Big Catastrophe, 'Crisis Is Just Beginning'

VIDEO

Simon Johnson, the MIT professor and economist who's long been a strident critic of "too big to fail" institutions, appeared on CNBC this morning and predicted that the next phase of the financial crisis could be precipitated by banks exploiting emerging markets like China

https://snipurl.com/u1qe2



US loses 85,000 jobs in December

The US economy lost 85,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department reported Friday, the same day new major layoffs were announced by UPS and Lockheed Martin.

https://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/jobs-j09.shtml



US 'in danger of recession relapse'

The economists say there is a 25 to 40 per cent chance of a 2010 crisis, a phenomena they call a "double dip recession".

https://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/20101113446788772.html


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Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/06-0

 

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Mark Brenner, Labor Notes: "Today's Great Recession should have been the curtain call for an economic model that has left most workers with less buying power than they had in the mid-1970s, swelled the ranks of the uninsured to 46 million, created income inequality not seen since the Great Depression, and left most of us drowning in debt. But apparently no one in Washington got the memo. The government's top economists have been preoccupied with nursing Wall Street back to health so that the speculators can continue on their merry way unchanged."

https://www.truthout.org/090609V?n

 

The CEO Pay Debate: Why Reform is Going Nowhere

Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati, The Institute For Policy Studies: "Would you let shareholders regulate their CEOs' reckless behavior? Your friendly local Fortune 500 company is dumping toxic chemicals into the river that runs through your town. You want the problem fixed. Who do you expect to do the fixing? The company's shareholders? Of course not. That same Fortune 500 company, you've just learned, is paying a woman who lives next door to you less than a man who does the same work? Who do you expect to end that discrimination? The company's shareholders? That thought would never enter your mind. No sensible American would expect shareholders, and shareholders alone, to fix problems like these. So why do we expect shareholders to fix executive pay?"

https://www.truthout.org/090609W?n

 

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have tough truths to tell, and it has been well demonstrated that the establishment media does not want to broadcast these. Given the lack of an outlet for anti-war voices in the corporate media, many contemporary veterans and active-duty soldiers have embraced the arts as a tool for resistance, communication and healing. They have made use of a wide range of visual and performing arts - through theater, poetry, painting, writing, and other creative expression - to affirm their own opposition to the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/090609R?n

 

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