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Russ Baker on Jan 4, 2012
Let’s look a little further at what ails Obama—and us. It’s about the pretty small part of the One Percent that really calls the shots, and keeps a president from doing what he surely knows he must.
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Russ Baker on Apr 17, 2011
If George Carlin were still with us, we’d have recruited him for the WhoWhatWhy advisory board. He had a certain clarity about the world that is sadly lacking. Accept no substitute….
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Russ Baker on Apr 13, 2011
Now’s the time to shake off the slumber and look—gasp—look at who’s really benefitting from the shutdown threat.
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Russ Baker on Mar 28, 2011
Here’s a quiz:
Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi: Good or bad? How about GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt?
Here are your answers, straight from the top: Qaddafi, way bad. And Immelt? Good guy, business and civic leader. Should be a key adviser to the president.
On Qaddafi, we already knew he was a...
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Russ Baker on Jun 28, 2009
Here’s a useful tool for finding out what US-based transnational corporations are doing around the world. Go to a website called Croctail, where you can search domestic and foreign subsidiaries of publicly traded companies. (Hat tip to www.dirtdiggersdigest.org which brought it to my attention, and to...