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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>
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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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		<comments>http://www.andykroll.com/uncategorized/inside-big-labors-epic-battle-in-wisconsin#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.andykroll.com/uncategorized/the-gops-campaign-finance-sneak-attack</link>
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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>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>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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Chris Dodd&#8217;s Race to the Bottom</title>
		<link>http://www.andykroll.com/american-politics/chris-dodds-race-to-the-bottom</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from Mother Jones.com In just six months, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the stately front man of the Senate&#8217;s campaign to crack down on Wall Street, has transformed from financial-reform avenger, scourge of the Federal Reserve, and ally of the average consumer to a GOP pushover. Last fall, the veteran Senator and chairman of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, rhetorical fisticuffs, and the new &#8220;jobs surge&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a new, short piece of mine—an introduction, to be precise, to Steve Fraser&#8217;s most recent piece for TomDispatch.com, &#8220;The New Deal in Reverse: How the Obama Administration Ended Up Where Franklin Roosevelt Began.&#8221; Fraser&#8217;s piece compares the first years of Obama and FDR, and unlike any other historian, he describes how the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers, Guns, and Money: How Banks Snooze and Arms Dealers Profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CROSS-POSTED FROM MOTHERJONES.COM Among Bank of America’s 50 million customers, Pierre Falcone was far from ordinary. An infamous global arms dealer who unlawfully sold weapons to Angola for its civil war and an international fugitive, Falcone was convicted of tax fraud and illegal arms dealing in 2007 and 2009 and is currently serving six years [...]]]></description>
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