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March 29, 2008

Treasury Dodgeball

By Nomi Prins, Mother Jones, USA - This week, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson promised an upcoming blueprint for regulatory reform. The Federal Reserve's "heroism" last week included purchasing $30 billion of Bear's riskiest securities, turning the Fed not into a provider of last-resort liquidity but a speculative hedge fund.

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Tribes Versus Terrorists

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Ban the Cluster Bomb

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Diction Matters

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The Rights of the Land

by Robin Kimmerer, Orion, USA - The Onondaga Nation of central New York proposes a radical new vision of property rights....