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Iraq War Logs: Secret Files Show How US Ignored Torture (Nick Davies, Jonathan Steele and David Leigh)
Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse. 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war Oct. 22, 2010 (the Guardian/UK) -- A grim picture of the U.S. and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a ...
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Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)
Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter (Josh Halliday)
Editor-in-chief of controversial whistleblowing website says US technology magazine 'has an agenda and is not to be trusted' Oct. 19, 29010 (guardian.co.uk) -- The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian ...
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Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)
Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, ...
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BOOKS: Empire for Liberty. By Richard H. Immerman (Jim Miles)
Empire for Liberty. Richard H. Immerman. Princeton University Press, 2010. Oct. 15, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- History takes on an interesting life when written as well as Richard Immerman’s new ...
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Wells Fargo: No halt to foreclosures (Mark Calvey)
Oct. 8, 2010 (San Francisco Business Times) -- Wells Fargo said Friday it has no plans to adopt a foreclosure moratorium despite Bank of America’s decision today to halt all foreclosures. “Wells ...
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Government had Been Warned for Months about Troubles in Mortgage Servicer Industry (Zachary A. Goldfarb)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, ...
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Boiler Rooms, Foreclosure Mills: The Story of America’s Mortgage Industry (Michael Hudson)
Oct. 8, 2010 (Center For Public Integrity) -- The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents, false affidavits and “rocket ...
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Mortgage-Title Fraud: A National Catastrophe (Jeff Nielson)
Jeff Neilson Oct. 8, 2010 (Seeking Alpha) -- It is impossible to overstate the severity of the real estate crisis in the United States which has been caused entirely by the reckless fraud of the ...
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BofA Extends Freeze on Foreclosures to All 50 States (Michael J. Moore and Lorraine Woellert)
Oct. 6, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. lender, extended a freeze on foreclosures to all 50 states as concern spread among federal and local officials that homes are ...
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One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)
Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, ...
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