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By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn
January 31, 2012 12:45 pm-
‘Egypt Unshackled’ Whips ‘Witchy’ O’Donnell, Maybe Johnston? Is Palin Hit Piece Next?It’s encouraging. People like you are buying this great story and I didn’t have to storm off a TV set in faux...by Denis G Campbell on October 2, 2011 9:45 pm -
ProPublica.Org Reader’s Guide to the Phone Hacking Scandalby Braden Goyette, ProPublica Rupert Murdoch’s News International just announced its decision to close News...by admin on July 9, 2011 3:45 pm -
SEC Loosens Rule, Lets Natural Gas Firms Recalculate Reserves, Potential Profitsby Marian Wang, ProPublica Previously, companies were allowed to count gas only from areas close to their active...by Marian Wang on June 28, 2011 4:45 am
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A Reader’s Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails
by Marian Wang and Sergio Hernandez, ProPublica Before Sarah Palin became a political pundit, reality TV star and household name, she did a whole lot of things in Alaska that raised eyebrows once she became a vice presidential nominee. Reporters began exploring some of those things at the time, and filing public records requests to more fully explore [...]
Oil Companies That Gave ‘Bonuses’ to Libya Also Lobbied Against Disclosure Rule
by Marian Wang, ProPublica Multinational companies operating in Libya have had to deal with many obstacles, including a government rife with corruption that often asked for what amounted to bribes. Sometimes those companies balked; sometimes they paid them, New York Times reported. The Times story doesn’t actually mention the word “bribes,” using instead the phrase “payoffs to keep [...]
Safety on the Cheap
by Robert Reich Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible? The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO’s Fukushima [...]
Guantanamo As Prison and Courtroom: Is a White House Policy Unraveling or Coming Together?
by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica.org Last August, President Obama’s national security advisers, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met in the White House situation room to decide whether and how to go forward with trials for some Guantanamo prisoners. Congress, even in the hands of Democrats, opposed [...]
Greenspan, Rubin and Herbert Hoover
by Robert Reich Herbert Hoover’s disciples are making noises even as America moves closer towards a double dip recession Fed Chair Alan Greenspan tells the New York Times all the Bush tax cuts should expire as scheduled, even those that benefit the middle class and not the rich. His reason: the nation’s looming deficit requires [...]
Joe Lieberman Is “Unbalanced”
by Charley James According to five clinical psychiatrists who describe themselves as being politically aware, Joe Lieberman’s behaviour over the last few weeks of the Senate health care debate reveals numerous signs that he is increasingly “unbalanced.” All five caution that, while it is difficult to make a specific diagnosis without seeing a patient in [...]
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