Secret pact covered jurisdiction of U.S. military crimes committed in Japan: In a 1958 secret agreement with the United States, the Japanese government effectively ceded the right to try U.S. military personnel for crimes committed in Japan, Foreign Ministry sources said
Ron Paul : Conservatives ‘like the empire’: He was met with both disapproval and applause during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference for describing conservatives as hypocritical when they call for a return to Constitutional values while supporting foreign wars.
Greece To Receive 30bn Euros For Bail Out: Eurozone countries have announced a 30bn euro (£26bn) aid package of loans to help debt-ridden Greece.
Risk of Japan going bankrupt is real, analysts say: Greece's debt problems may currently be in the spotlight but Japan is walking its own financial tightrope, analysts say, with a public debt mountain bigger than that of any other industrialised nation.
33 states out of money to fund jobless benefits: With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans.
Paul Krugman: Banks Gone Wild: Georgia on My Mind: I’m not sure how many people know that Georgia leads the nation in bank failures, accounting for 37 of the 206 banks seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation since the beginning of 2008. These bank failures are a symptom of deeper problems
The Guy Who Brought Down AIG - and Maybe the World Economy - Gets Off Scott-Free, and Gets to Keep $315 Million in Loot: Jospeh Cassano, the guy who brought down AIG - and maybe the world economy - with trillions in risky derivatives deals which AIG couldn't back up, is getting prosecuted ... and the government will claw back all the money he made, right? Uh, no.
Scheming to steal workers' pensions: Amy Muldoon looks behind the hype about how public-sector workers get "exorbitant" pensions--and finds a cabal of right-wing politicians and CEOs out to bash unions.
Chavez Fuels the South Bronx : CITGO’s profits have now funded numerous social projects in what is one of the poorest congressional districts in the United States.
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