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Thursday, Jan 28
Headlines for January 28, 2010
Obama Stresses Job Recovery in State of Union AddressZelaya Leaves Honduras As New President Takes OfficeReport: U.S. Military Spending in Haiti More Than Triples Assistance to Haitian Gov'tHaiti Postpones Parliamentary Vote, Suspends Orphan FlightsSurvivor Found Beneath Rubble...
Monday, Jan 25
Headlines for January 25, 2010
150,000 Bodies Buried in Haiti; Death Toll Could Top 300,000Oxfam Calls for International Community to Cancel Haiti's $890 Million DebtHope for Haiti Telethon Raises $57 MillionObama Assails Supreme Court Campaign Finance RulingEmails Show Fed Tried to Keep Details of AIG Bailout...
Friday, Jan 15
Headlines for January 15, 2010
Red Cross: Up to 50,000 Feared Dead in HaitiWFP: Food Supplies Looted in Port-au-PrinceBush to Co-Chair Haiti Relief; Cut Aid, Backed Coup Against AristideAristide Seeks Return to Haiti16 Killed in US Drone Attack in Pakistan16 Killed in Afghan BombingObama Proposes Bailout Tax on W...
Thursday, Dec 31
Headlines for December 31, 2009
Suicide Bomber Hits CIA Base in Afghanistan, 8 DeadRoadside Bombing Kills Four Canadian Troops and Canadian JournalistAfghan Investigators Accused Int'l Forces of Killing SchoolboysCanadian PM Harper Accused of Shutting Down Torture ProbeDutch Court OKs Nigerian Suit Against S...
Tuesday, Aug 25
Podcast: Who is Obama Playing Ball With?
It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s pre...
Wednesday, Mar 25
Podcast: "Lessons of the Exxon Valdez"
With the global economic meltdown and welling public outrage over the excesses of executives at AIG as well as over other bailout beneficiaries, now just might be the time to expand public engagement over the imbalance of power between people and corporations that has undermined our de...
Wednesday, Mar 18
Podcast: "Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout"
Taxpayers’ bailout money for AIG bonuses has rightfully provoked a massive backlash against AIG, Wall Street, President Barack Obama and his economic advisers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers. The U.S. public now owns 80 percent of AIG. The outrage is bipartisan: I...
Wednesday, Dec 17
Podcast: "Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff"
The $700-billion financial bailout package, TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program), was supposed to mandate the elimination of exorbitant executive compensation and “golden parachutes.” As U.S. taxpayers pony up their hard-earned dollars, highflying executives and corporate boar...
