Navy Carriers Are Sitting Ducks | Hightower: 'Too Big to Fail' Is BS | Stunning Govt. Giveaway

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Stunning Government Billion-Dollar Giveaway to Paper Companies in the Works By Christopher Hayes, The Nation A tax loophole could let the ten largest paper companies rake in a whopping $8 billion. Where's the outrage? Read more »   Navy's Big Weakness: Our Aircraft Carriers Are (Expensive) Defenseless Sitting Ducks By Gary Brecher, AlterNet Every single change in technology in the past 50 years has had "Stop building carriers!" written all over it. But the Navy paid no attention. Read more »   New York Lightens Up on Some of the Harshest Drug Laws in the Country By Steven Wishnia, AlterNet Let's hope the changes mark the beginning of the end of New York's Rockefeller drug laws. Read more »   Brutal Law Strips Afghan Women of Rights -- Where's the Outrage? By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group Afghan President Hamid Karzai just signed a law consigning the women of Afghanistan to lives of terrible repression. Read more »   Stress Tests for Wall Street -- What About the Billions in off-the-Books Toxic Assets? By Danielle Ivory, American News Project & AlterNet We can't let the big financial houses like Citigroup get away with keeping their liabilities off the books. Read more »   'Too Big to Fail' Is Too Big -- Period By Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate The "too big" claim forms the rationale for the diversion of regular people's money into rich people's pockets. Read more »   Proof that Geithner's Bank Plan Is a Massive Giveaway to the Bastards Who Started This Mess By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Banks "colluding to swap assets at inflated prices using taxpayers' dollars." Read more »   Binghamton Is My Home Town: Reflections on the Shooting By Deanna Zandt, Deannazandt.com Economic distress might have been the thing that flipped this guy's sanity over to the dark side. And now people are dead. Read more »   Famed Gitmo Lawyer Facing Six Months in Prison For Writing Letter to Obama Detailing Torture of Client Comment Is Free Clive Stafford Smith is accused of 'unprofessional conduct' by Pentagon officials who monitor communication between Gitmo prisoners and their lawyers. Read more »   Startling Revelations about Three Mile Island Disaster Raise Doubts Over Nuke Safety By Sue Sturgis, Facing South A growing body of personal and scientific evidence contradicts the official story that the accident posed no threat to the public. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Hugo Chavez: Released Gitmo Prisoners Can Come to Venezuela By Liliana Segura, AlterNet "We wouldn't have any problem in taking in human beings," Chavez said this week, calling on the U.S. to "finish with that miserable prison." Read more »   Ward Churchill Awarded $1 in Wrongful Termination Suit By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet A jury found that Churchill was fired by the University of Colorado in retaliation for his controversial essay on 9/11. Read more »   Obama Calls Out European 'Anti-Americanism' and American 'Arrogance' By Sam Stein, Huffington Post Stressing a "renewed relationship for a new generation" his speech brought the crowd to applause on several occasions. Read more »

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