Articles Posted in 2009
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The Recovery Plan From Hell: What Wall Street Wants
By Michael Hudson, Counterpunch February 13, 2009 Tuesday’s announcement of the Obama-Geithner recovery plan is basically an extension of the Bush-Paulson plan – yet more giveaways to financial insiders, with a view to concentrating the…
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Israeli Elections Bodes Ill for Peace Negotiations
By Ralph E. Stone February 12, 2009 In the recent Israeli elections, the moderate Kadina party won one more seat in the Israeli Knesset or parliament than the right-wing Likud Party. Israel will end up…
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Daly Raises Yarne Conflict of Interest Question
Supervisor Chris Daly sent a Letter of Inquiry to City Attorney Dennis Herrera yesterday asking the question: “Is there a conflict of interest?” with Newsom administration Planning Advisor Michael Yarne. Photos by Luke Thomas By…
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Update on Injured San Francisco Firefighters’ Conditions
From the San Francisco Fire Department February 10, 2009, 4:20 p.m. Lt. James App, one of the six Firefighters injured at a fire on Felton Street in San Francisco on February 5, 2009, was released…
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Darwin’s 200th Birthday: His Theory of Evolution
Still ControversialCharles Darwin By Ralph E. Stone February 10, 2009 February 12 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Darwin’s theory of evolution as set forth in his “Origin of Species” published in 1859, and…
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Extraordinary Renditions: No Hope for Change
in Obama AdministrationBy Susan Vaughan February 10, 2009 A panel of judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments in a detainee abuse case Monday that tested the degree to which the…
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Connecting the Bridge to Nowhere
to the New RealityCommentary by Hector Garcia, MediaForum.org Feburary 9, 2009 Taxpayers around the globe have paid over $13 trillion (more than a quarter of the gross global product) to bail out financial, insurance and other organizations as…
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