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		<title>Missing from Occupy Wall Street: Barack Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story originally appeared at MotherJones.com. At Zuccotti Park, the shoebox-shaped spit of land in lower Manhattan that for three weeks Occupy Wall Street has called home, there are signs everywhere—strewn on the ground, taped to trees, thrusted skyward, hand-painted on the bulging belly of a pregnant mom. Their messages run the gamut: &#8220;We Are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 01:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Ronald Reagan and funded by the right's richest donors, a web of free-market think tanks has fueled the nationwide attack on workers' rights.]]></description>
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		<title>TomDispatch: Union-Busting or Republican-Busting in Wisconsin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hundred years ago, 146 people, mostly young immigrant women, died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in downtown New York City, a building lacking sprinkler systems, fire walls, or adequate fire escapes. Onlookers watched horrified, writes historian Steve Fraser, as many of the trapped workers jumped to their deaths from upper-story windows. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Big Labor&#8217;s Epic Battle in Wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at MotherJones.com. They piled off of buses and out of cars, filling the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, and surrounding the towering Capitol. Thousands crowded inside the building’s beautiful rotunda, their cheers echoing throughout the domed structure. An estimated 100,000 people had descended on frigid Madison to protest Republican Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s &#8220;budget repair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The GOP&#8217;s Campaign Finance &#8220;Sneak Attack&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at MotherJones.com On Wednesday, House Republicans plan to rush to the floor a bill that would eliminate the federal government&#8217;s presidential financing system—in the process, violating recent pledges by the GOP&#8217;s leadership of increased transparency and debate in Congress. Not one hearing has been held on the legislation, nor has a single commitee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Bailouts: A Success Story?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flickr/illuminea (Creative Commons) What began as the ugliest of government bailouts—the rescue of General Motors, Chrysler, and the financing company GMAC/Ally—is now shaping up to be one of the success stories of financial crisis. In its latest report, released on Thursday, the bipartisan Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) revisits the $60-billion dollar bailout of two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie and Freddie&#8217;s Foreclosure Barons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest investigative piece at MotherJones.com. A few days after this story came, the Florida Attorney General&#8217;s Economic Crime division opened an investigation to the David Stern law firm. Read more about that here. *** LATE ONE NIGHT IN February 2009, Ariane Ice sat poring over records on the website of Florida&#8217;s Palm Beach County. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Lobby Blitz Targets Elizabeth Warren</title>
		<link>http://www.andykroll.com/uncategorized/she-will-build-that-agency-in-her-image</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my latest from MotherJones.com, on the bank lobbying quietly underway to block Elizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate and bailout watchdog, from leading the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (which, of course, was her idea). *** &#8220;She Will Build That Agency In Her Image&#8221; That&#8217;s why banking industry reps are lobbying against Elizabeth Warren, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Won&#8217;t the GOP Criticize BP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published at MotherJones.com. Elected Democrats haven&#8217;t been shy about slamming BP for the horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Last month, Senate majority leader Harry Reid emotionally declared on the Senate floor that the oil company&#8217;s &#8220;greed led to 11 horrific and unnecessary deaths. It has harmed an enormous tourism industry, threatened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re All Bernie Madoff: Welcome to the Ponzi Nation</title>
		<link>http://www.andykroll.com/subprime-meltdown/were-all-bernie-madoff-welcome-to-the-ponzi-nation</link>
		<comments>http://www.andykroll.com/subprime-meltdown/were-all-bernie-madoff-welcome-to-the-ponzi-nation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade—call it the Ponzi Era—has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first years of the new century. Then, [...]]]></description>
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