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No Letup on Big Telecom and Big Media Companies Behaving Badly

Art Brodsky | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Universal Music Group, Federal Communications Commission, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Comcast NBC, Antitrust Law, Verizon Spectrum, Cartels, Antitrust, Collusion, Umg, Universal Music Group Consolidation, Verizon Spectrum Purchase, Technology News
Art Brodsky

The idea of big companies continuing to control their markets, and control the behavior of consumers, continues to march on. Even now, two major deals are proceeding apace, one in telecom and one in the entertainment world.

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Cartels Poised For One-On-One Battle To Control Drug Markets

AP | By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Felipe Calderon, Mexico Drug War, Drug War, Cartels, Drug Cartel, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, Veracruz, World News

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Five years after President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against Mexico's five main drug cartels, the nation is now domina...

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Under Pressure, OPEC Hammers Out Deal to Raise Oil Supply

Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Quota, Oil Barrels, Commodities, Oil Production, Oil Drilling, Opec, Cartels, Saudi Arabia, Oil Prices, Kuwait, Business News

VIENNA (Ramin Mostafavi and Alex Lawler) - OPEC producers on Wednesday hammered out a deal to raise oil supplies for the first time in four years...

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Weekly Diaspora: How Bad U.S.-Latin American Policy Fuels Unauthorized Immigration

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, Cafta, Central American Free Trade Agreement, Cartels, Wells Fargo, Mexico, Free Trade, Obama, Immigration, North American Free Trade Agreement, Chiquita, Nafta, Wachovia, Barack Obama, El Salvador, Immigration Reform, Colorlines, Colombia, New America Media, Panama, In These Times, Inter Press Service, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Too often, the immigration debate in this country ignores the role U.S. foreign policy plays in fue...

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3 Out Of 4 Guns In Mexico Crimes Come From U.S. Border States, Mayors Say

ABC News | Richard Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Gun Laws, California, Cartels, Gun Control, Mexico, Drugs, Arizona, New Mexico, Politics News

A shocking new report obtained by ABC News says that as many as three out of four guns used in crimes in Mexico can be traced to gun stores just acros...

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Cancun Bar Attack: 8 Killed In Molotov Assault At Castillo Del Mar

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Cancun, Molotov Cocktails, Molotov, Cartels, Francisco Alor, Mexico, Castillo Del Mar, World News

CANCUN, Mexico — Six women and two men died Tuesday in a fire at a bar frequented by locals in the Mexican resort of Cancun, and bar employees h...

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Bank Compensation Cartels

The 14th Banker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve, Banks, Executive Compensation, Cartels, Business News
The 14th Banker

Banks are run by Compensation Cartels. They buy the myth of superhero financial status, despite the fact that they consistently destroy long term value at banks.

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Help Wanted: Mexican Drug Kingpin

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico City, Arturo Beltran Leyva, Cartels, Juaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Assault Weapons, President Felipe Calderon, U. S. Drug Officials, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Tijuana, Cuernavaca, Drug Prohibition, Beheadings, Los Zetas, Ramon Arellano Felix, Mexican Drug Kingpin, Carnage, Supply and Demand, Copenhagen Climate Summit, War on Drugs, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Mexico's drug-related violence will not end with the death of drug kingpin Beltran Leyva. Until we recognize that the U.S.-led global war on drugs is the systemic cause of the carnage, violence will intensify.

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Gunmen Open Fire On AA Meeting In Mexico, Killing 1

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Trade, Chihuahua City, Cartels, Illegal Drugs, Mexico Violence, Mexico, Aa, Sinaloa, Drugs, Chihuahua, Esparza, Border, Ciudad Juarez, Alcoholics Anonymous, Rehabilitation Clinics, Juarez, Drug Rehab, Home News

MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...

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Obama's Oil Company Windfall Profits Tax and the Wall Street Journal's Celebration

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Obama Administration, OPEC Cartel, Cartels, Wall Street Journal, Windfall Profits Tax, Opec, Obama Windfall Profit Tax, Oil Prices, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The oil companies were not manipulating commodity prices. Their role has been limited to cheering on OPEC and lobbying our government to remain dangerously benign.

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