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Financiers and Sex Trafficking

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas Kristoff - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - This emporium for girls and women — some under age or forced into prostitution — is in turn owned by an opaque private company called Village Voice Media. Until now it has been unclear who the ultimate owners are. That mystery is solved.

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Fair Game: W.T.O. and Barriers to Financial Change

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gretchen Morgenson - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - The battle to remake the financial markets faces new obstacles in — of all places — the World Trade Organization. Even now, after all we’ve been through, something is still wrong with Wall Street. That’s the takeaway from the extraordinary — and extraordinarily public — resignation of Greg Smith from Goldman Sachs last week. His criticism of Goldman, made in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times, suggested that some of the business practices and inherent conflicts in the financial industry are as troubling today as they were before all of those taxpayer bailouts.

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The Good, Bad and Ugly of Capitalism

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Joe Nocera - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - Goldman Sachs displayed one side of capitalism this week that seemed to strike a chord with many. Starbucks is displaying a different side.

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Mass incarceration and criminal justice in America.

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic—the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happ

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US crime and GDP: Falling together

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Sep. 28 (Editorial) - It may be of little comfort to their residents, but there was at least some good news for the American states hardest hit by recession, in the regional crime data recently released by the US Department of Justice. Nationwide, crime rates have been falling for two decades, a trend that continued through the recession. The latest figures reveal the surprising depth of the decline in property crime between 2007 and 2010. In the states which suffered the biggest drops in per-person income, such as Nevada, the rate of property crime has also come down most. If such crime is a rational act, one might expect it to increase as residents get poorer and more desperate for cash.

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SEC No Evil

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Countdown - By Keith Olbermann, Matt Taibbi - Aug. 19 (Interview) - 'In this 'Countdown' exclusive interview, Keith sits down with Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi to discuss breaking the story about the Securities and Exchange Commission destroying the records of promising cases in the years leading up to the financial meltdown.'

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Hate crimes are a national problem

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By J. Richard Cohen - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - The security camera footage broadcast by CNN shows a grisly scene: a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, being fatally run over by a pickup truck after he was viciously beaten in a motel parking lot on a Sunday morning in June. Prosecutors say a group of white teens chose the man at random. They say the alleged ringleader, an 18-year-old now charged with murder, laughed about it afterward and boasted in a phone conversation about how he "ran that n----- over."

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UK riots: political classes see what they want to see

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Aditya Chakrabortty - Aug. 10 (Opinion) - Like everyone else, I've spent most of the past week glued to news of the riots. In my case though, many reports have carried a tingle of nostalgia. You see, I grew up not far from the ground zero of the disturbances – in Edmonton, just north of where this week's violence began in Tottenham – and so the updates on looting and destruction have also summoned up memories of school trips, bus rides and teenage work experience. "Ah, yes," I would think while the radio burbled away over the weekend, "I know that (now burnt-out) carpet shop." Or: "Aren't there always boarded-up shops on Fore Street?"

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Tabloid's actions bring shame on Murdoch's empire

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 11 (Editorial) - SHAME on Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., News International, the new poster children for guerrilla tactics of the tabloid news business and a hideous lack of ethical and moral business values.

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Murdoch's malign influence must die with the News of the World

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jul. 10 (Editorial) - The scandal over phone hacking has exposed a rotten empire and the urgent need for stronger press regulation Suddenly, Rupert Murdoch seems much less a global mogul, much more a diminished man of glass. He flies into London this weekend from Sun Valley, Idaho, in time for the last rites of the most successful Sunday newspaper in Britain, the News of the World . One hundred and sixty-eight years ago, it pledged: "Our motto is the truth, our practice is fearless advocacy of the truth." After today, the tabloid will appear no more, felled not by one royal rogue reporter but by the arrogance, ambition and apparent tolerance of systemic criminal behaviour by members of the senior News International management. The loss of a newspaper, especially one with a proud history of award-winning investigative journalism, is a cause for sadness. The News of the World was the biggest-selling Sunday tabloid in the English-speaking world. The death of a paper in such rude health is unprecedented and ...

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Crime Victims United of California: A powerful voice in state politics

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Joshua Page - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - If policymakers continue to follow the voices of expressly punitive victims rights advocates and ignore the opinions of those who promote alternative, less punitive conceptions of justice, California will not shrink its $9-billion prison system or alleviate its correctional crisis. The status quo will prevail. Let's hope this harrowing prediction doesn't come true.

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Goldman Sachs Executives Lied To Their Customers And Congress

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Henry Blodget, Matt Taibbi - May. 17 (Interview) - Taibbi argues that Goldman Sachs executives lied when they testified in front of Congress in the aftermath of the crisis. Unlike other commentators who grouse about how Wall Street execs should be tossed in jail, Taibbi actually provides specifics. He takes quotes from some of the Goldman execs who testified, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein and CFO David Viniar, and then juxtaposes them with what he believes to be the truth at the time.

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After Osama bin Laden’s death, imagining a world without DNA evidence

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Brandon L. Garrett - May. 14 (Opinion) - How did the United States make sure that Osama bin Laden was dead? Facial-recognition software offered only 95 percent certainty. To be 99.9 percent sure, according to federal officials, it took DNA testing.

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The People vs. Goldman Sachs

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - May. 13 (Editorial) - To recap: Goldman, to get $1.2 billion in crap off its books, dumps a huge lot of deadly mortgages on its clients, lies about where that crap came from and claims it believes in the product even as it's betting $2 billion against it. When its victims try to run out of the burning house, Goldman stands in the doorway, blasts them all with gasoline before they can escape, and then has the balls to send a bill overcharging its victims for the pleasure of getting fried.

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Police Union President Charged with Assault

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Bryan P. Sears - Mar. 29 (Opinion) - Cole Weston faces second-degree assault and reckless endangerment charges.

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Another Inside Job

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Mar. 14 (Opinion) - The rich are different from you and me: when they break the law, it’s the prosecutors who find themselves on trial.

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Why is the United States torturing Private Manning?

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Ron Smith - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - Ten months after his arrest on charges of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is systematically being stripped of his humanness by his warders at the brig inside the Marine base at Quantico, Va.

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Julian Assange is very likely to be extradited, says Matrix barrister

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Joshua Rozenberg - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - It is "very likely" that a senior district judge will order the extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden to face sexual assault charges, a barrister at Matrix Chambers predicted this week.

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US economics: One big Ponzi scheme

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - By Danny Schlecter - Feb. 20 (Opinion) - While Bernie Madoff languishes in jail, bankers continue to profit as the poor lose their homes and hope.

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Simon responds to Bealefeld's criticism

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton, David Simon - Jan. 18 (Comment) - "The Wire" creator David Simon responds to comments made recently by Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III that the HBO show was a "smear that will take decades to overcome":It is my understanding that Commissioner Bealefeld -- by finally choosing...

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Nine days since Tucson

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Keith Olbermann - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the nine days since Tucson. That awful night, I said this: We need to put the guns down. Just as importantly we need to put the gun metaphors away and permanently. Left, right, middle — politicians and citizens — sane and insane. This age in which this country would accept "targeting" of political opponents and putting bullseyes over their faces, and of the dangerous blurring between political rallies and gun shows, ended.

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Violence and threats have no place in democracy

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Keith Olbermann - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - In the aftermath of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reminds Americans that “violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our democracy.”

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Vaccine-autism researcher should be prosecuted

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Alex B. Berezow - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - Finally, after 13 years of needless controversy, the British Medical Journal determined that Andrew Wakefield's vaccine-autism link constituted an "elaborate fraud."

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Climate of Hate

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?

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The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the killing of six innocents outside a Tucson Safeway has bolstered the ongoing argument that when speaking of things political, we should all avoid using inflammatory rhetoric and violence.

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