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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Photography, Democracy Now!, Anonymous, David Koch, Collective Bargaining, Police, Civil Rights, Middle Class, Sanitation Worker, Ddos, Layoff, Kelda Helen Roys, Dc, Mother Jones, Matthew Rothschild, Scott Walker, Protest, Dues, Rally, Andy Kroll, Union, Quorum, Illinois, New York, Martin Luther King, Budget, Solidarity, The Progressive, George Warner, Care2, The Uptake, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Madison, Amy Goodman, Jessica Pieklo, Jon Erpenbach, Senate, Economy, Indiana, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the...

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Weekly Pulse: The Republicans' War On Women

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Gop, Bobbie Franklin, RH Reality Check, Gold Coins, Shutdown, South Dakota, Republican, Life, Government, Mother Jones, Scott Walker, Andy Kroll, Contraception, Tea Party, Title X, Daniel Tencer, Abortion, Women, Miscarriage, House, Medicaid, Care2, Robin Marty, Choice, Julianne Hing, Tapped, Birth Control, Nick Baumann, Wisconsin, Georgia, Lindsay Beyerstein, Raw Story, Home News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The entire federal government might shut down over birth control. Yes, birth control. This special e...

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Weekly Audit: What Will The GOP Cut?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Democracy Now!, Welfare, Richard Kim, Congress, Martin Luther King, House, Welfare Rights, Budget, State, The Nation, Frances Fox Piven, Alternet, Memphis, Cloward Piven, Mother Jones, Tax Growth, Roger Bybee, Andy Kroll, Working in These Times, Glenn Beck, Amy Goodman, Gdp, Sanitation Workers, Inequality, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The Republicans won control of the House and picked up seats in the Senate in the midterm election on ...

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Weekly Audit: We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Kari Lydersen, Gop, Recovery, Congress, Jobs, The Nation, Republican, Grittv, Unemployment, Public Sector, Private, Mother Jones, Chrystia Freeland, Elite, Tim Fernholtz, Bond, Andy Kroll, Class, American Prospect, Darrell Issa, Pension, Build America Bonds, Wages, Retirement, Public, Recession, Laura Flanders, Devin Nunes, Working in These Times, Paul Ryan, Atlantic Monthly, Class Warfare, Eric Alterman, Inequality, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Meet the new global elite. They're pretty much the same as the old global elite, only richer and more ...

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Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Home

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Market, Foreclosures, Democracy Now!, Edolpus Towns, Moratorium, The Note, Bank of America, Chris Hayes, The Nation, Alan Grayson, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage, Truthout, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Bond, Andy Kroll, Private Property, Liar Loans, Liar Liens, Dean Baker, Politics News
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Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Homeby Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Earlier this month, Bank of America (BOA), the country's larges...

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Weekly Audit: Will Obama Save Homeowners From Wall Street's Latest Fraud Scheme?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Obama, Andy Kroll, Bailout, The Washington Monthly, Foreclosure Crisis, Steve Benen, Annie Lowrey, Zach Carter, Laura Flanders, Wall Street, The Washington Independent, Grittv, Danny Schechter, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosures, Economy, Axelrod, Mother Jones, Tarp, Alternet, Business News
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger A massive foreclosure fraud scandal is rocking the U.S. mortgage market. Wall Street banks and their lawyer...

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Foreclosure Mills: Wall Street's Latest Fraud Scheme

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Citi, Foreclosures, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Economy, Mother Jones, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Fraud, Fraud, Bank of America, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure Mills, Wall Street, Bofa, Andy Kroll, Banks, Subprime, Wall Street Fraud, Business News
Zach Carter

Banks broke the law and hired other people to break the law for them, scoring big profits without being punished. Is it any wonder that they're still at it?

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Weekly Audit: Brown-Nosing Wall Street Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Scott Brown, Foreclosures, Right to Rent, Greg Kaufmann, The American Prospect, Annie Lowrey, The Nation, Mortgage Crisis, Alternet, Foreclosure Crisis, Wall Street Reform, Truthout, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Andy Kroll, Financial Crisis, Tim Fernholz, Subprime, Wall Street, The Washington Independent, Economy, Dean Baker, Home News
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger More than two years after the collapse of Bear Stearns, the House and Senate finally ironed out their differ...

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Weekly Mulch: Massey Energy coal costs the environment

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Massey Energy, The Washington Monthly, Mike Lillis, Don Blackenship, West Virginia Mine, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Safety Violations, Brooke Jarvis, Carbon Pollution, Colorado Independent, Bureau of Land Management, YES! Magazine, Methane Capture, Coal, Methane, Alternet, Washington Independent, Steve Benen, Nick Baumann, David O. Williams, Mother Jones, Andy Kroll, Clara Bingham, Mountaintop Removal, Kevin Connor, Green News
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger Coal consumption has costs -- this week's explosion at a West Virginia mine, which killed 25, made that cl...

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Weekly Audit: Congress to take up financial reform, but will it be strong enough?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Tarp, Noam Chomsky, Tbtf, American Forum, Christopher Hayes, Bailouts, Jobs, Federal Reserve, The Nation, Unemployment Rate, Wall Street Bailouts, Alternet, Steve Benen, Wall Street Reform, Unemployment, Mother Jones, Cfpa, Andy Kroll, Simon Johnson, Bank Bailout, In These Times, Wall Street, Chase, Occ, Financial Reform, JPMorgan Chase, Margaret Dorfman, Bank Bailouts, Mountaintop Removal, Too Big to Fail, Jpmorgan, Economy, Home News
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Next week, the debate over financial reform will begin in earnest when Congress returns from its Easter break...

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Weekly Pulse: "Racist" Tanning Tax and Other Absurd Objections to Health Care Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger While President Obama signed the final piece of the health care reform bill into law on Tuesday, oppon...

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The F Word: Better Uses for Bankers' Billions

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Morgan Stanley, Small Business, California, Banks, Pell Grant, Education, Economy, Recession, Jobs, Public, Grit Tv, Bailout, School, Goldman Sachs, Unemployment, Wall Street, Laura Flanders, Mother Jones, JPMorgan Chase, Crisis, Grittv, Bonuses, Andy Kroll, Politics News
Laura Flanders

What could be done with the $20 billion in Wall Street bonuses paid out this year? You could pay the salaries of more than 390,000 public school teachers across the country.

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Weekly Audit: More Jobs Please

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Home Affordability Modification Program, Foreclosures, Obama Jobs Bill, The American Prospect, President Obama, Republican Obstructionism, Financial Transactions Tax, Christopher Hayes, Institute for Policy Studies, Obama, Budget Deficit, The Nation, Linktv, Alternet, Steve Benen, Foreclosure Crisis, Mother Jones, Hamp, Andy Kroll, Recovery Act, Stimulus Package, Dean Baker, Afro-Netizen, The Washington Monthly, Economic Stimulus Package, Jobs Bill, Financial Speculation, Obstructionist Republicans, Sarah Anderson, Economic Policy Institute, Mortgage Crisis, Chris Rabb, Colorlines, Housing Crash, Michelle Chen, Center for Economic Policy and Research, Working in These Times, Economic Stimulus, Josh Bivens, Economy, Home News
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>By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger One year after President Barack Obama secured passage of his critical economic stimulus package, the U.S. Se...

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