Dave McGill
In the last three months, seven million people have filed initial claims for unemployment yet, over the past 13 months, only about 3 million jobs have been lost. Could temporary layoffs and technical reasons really explain this apparently huge discrepancy?

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by Bernard Schaer
The Obama stimulus package of currently $825 billion brakes down into three main parts. 33% of it – apparently to get the Republicans in Congress on board – in tax cuts. When will we learn that tax cuts don’t do near as much for the current economic situation as responsible and targeted spending [...]

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by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
I was shocked. For six years, I had been meeting secretly with the GOP mole I called “Shallow Throat”** — a high-ranking official in the Bush Administration — and each time, ST made sure to wear different wigs and scarves and dark glasses. Now, here was Shallow Throat in front [...]

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Dave McGill
Contrary to the impression most Americans are getting from the daily news, the government has been far from pro-active in reacting to the recession and stimulating a recovery.
We are at this point more than two years into the real estate collapse, over one year into the recession, and 17 months from the first troubling [...]

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Dave McGill
On Friday, the L.A. Times reported that an Army criminal investigator told the family of a soldier who died in Iraq that the death was a case of “negligent homicide” committed by a military contractor and two of its supervisors.

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