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Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Nation, Grittv, The American Prospect, Employee Free Choice Act, Housing, Truthdig, Racial Equality, Economy, Scandal, Salon, Ubs, Weekly Audit, Net Work, Mortgage, Unemployment, The Media Consortium, Labor Laws, Bank, Zach Carter, Tmc, Politics News
The Media Consortium

The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

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Weekly Audit: Bigger Than "Too Big to Fail"

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Adam Schlesinger, Zachary Roth, Matt Taibbi, The Nation, Robert Reich, Goldman Sachs, Eyal Press, Air America, David Moberg, Salon, Weekly Audit, Mary Kane, The Media Consortium, Laura Flanders, JPMorgan Chase, Zach Carter, Grittv, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Independent, Tmc, In These Times, Business News
The Media Consortium

Congress should be writing regulations to curb risk in the financial system as fast as bankers are paying themselves bonuses. They're our representatives, after all, and it's our money.

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We Don't Care. We Don't Have To Care. We're Goldman Sachs.

Mike Lux | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Laura Flanders, Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Grittv, Financial Bailout, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Mike Lux

Goldman Sachs has openly, blatantly gone back to business as usual, knowing they will be bailed out by taxpayers if their high rolling gambles don't work, and they don't care who knows about it.

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Weekly Pulse: The Presidential Guilt Trip

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Grittv, Tmc, The Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, Barack Obama, Mother Jones, Politics News
The Media Consortium

President Obama reportedly complained that liberal advocacy groups are attacking Democrats instead of trying to pass whatever health care bill the Senate happens to cough up.

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The Great U.S. Political Party Tradition: Rally Yours, Disenfranchise Theirs

Colorado Independent | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Grittv, Voter Fraud, Voter Disenfranchisement, Laura Flanders, Voter Protections, Felon Vote, Voter IDs, Reading Tests Vote, Home News
Colorado Independent

From reading tests and ID challenges to felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls, the U.S. is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law.

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Listen to the Now Sayers - Live Stream From Denver at 3 pm Pacific.

Laura Flanders | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Grittv, Dnc, Democratic National Convention, Laura Flanders, Politics News
Laura Flanders

It's 6 am in Denver and the sky's beginning to light up. An anti-war march starts in a few hours. The hip-hoppers from yesterday's Rock the Bells show...

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Vanity Fair Misses the Point: It's not McCain's Physique -- It's his Politics!

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Flanders, Blue Grit, John McCain, New Yorker, Grittv, Vanity Fair, Cindy McCain, Media News
Laura Flanders

If Vanity Fair's cartoonist wanted to flip the New Yorker cover on the GOP, they'd have to portray the media's lies about the candidate. Not the true stuff.

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No Bail-Out, No Bail! The Mortgage Melt-Down as seen from MIAMI

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Mortgage, Housing, Countrywide, Flanders, Grittv, Foreclosure, Miami, Housing Crisis, Workers, Subprime Mortgages, Media Consolidation, Gentrification, Sustainability, Media News
Laura Flanders

As the Bush administration unveiled a publicly-financed plan to "save" mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, local residents at a town hall fo...

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The F Word: Homes not Hearings

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Live From Main Street, Grittv, Flanders, Gulf Coast, Trailer, Fema, Housing Crisis, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Democrats and Republicans played out a partisan fight Wednesday over who is to blame for housing hurricane victims in toxic trailers. Over one millio...

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The F Word: Celebration in Colombia? Not so Fast

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Us Hostages Rescued Colombia, Grittv, Flanders, John McCain, Farc, Colombia, Colombian Hostage, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Over 400 hundred labor organizers have been murdered during the Uribe regime alone. And for all those six years Washington has done nothing.

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The F Word: No Solar and No Clean-up

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Grittv, Flanders, Dod, Solar Energy, Superfund, Epa, Green News
Laura Flanders

I say it's time for some departmental renaming. What do you call a Defense Department that makes you sicker and an environmental protection agency that can't?

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The F Word: Shelling Out for Shell

Laura Flanders | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Total, Bp, Exxon Mobil, Iraq, Oil, Shell Oil, Grittv, Flanders, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had their eye on the first major oil deals in post-Saddam Iraq, guess who got the gig? Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Total and BP!

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