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Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace Newsletter January 2nd, 2009 More from Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace »

Burger King Serves Up Cultural Imperialism By Jon Steinman, Deconstructing Dinner BK's new advertising campaign proudly celebrates the cultural imperialism that Americans have become so famous for. Read more »   A Happy New Year from everyone at AlterNet.     Was the 'Credit Crunch' a Myth Used to Sell a Trillion-Dollar Scam? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Even as the media continue to repeat the claim that credit has frozen up, evidence has emerged suggesting the entire story is wrong. Read more »   Conservatives' Insane Argument for Stalling on Economic Recovery By David Sirota, AlterNet More evidence that when history doesn't work in conservatives' favor, they just make it up. Read more »   Shopaholics, Big Spenders and People in Debt, Getting Smacked by Economic Reality By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet This is the season for how-did-we-go broke books, stories of shopping hangovers and life ripped down to the basics. Read more »   Helpers or Hucksters? A Look at 'Mortgage Mod' Firms By Paul Kiel, ProPublica Homeowners should be able to get loan modification help from nonprofits, which charge little or nothing for the service. Read more »   Madoff's Shocking Scheme Is Just a Microcosm of a Much Bigger Disaster By Maura Stephens, AlterNet All of Wall Street has been engaging in crimes and swindles like Madoff's against the American people, and the rest of the world, for decades. Read more »   Sex and Money: Are Women Regulators Different? By Dean Baker, TruthOut.org It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women. Read more »   The Humvee and the Bus: Why Not All Public Spending Is the Same By Sam Smith, CounterPunch Military capital spending is one of the least productive ways to use public funds because it has relatively few spin-off benefits. Read more »   The Right-Wing Economics That Got Us into This Mess Should Go the Way of Soviet Communism By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post It's high time we cast "free market" economic theory into the dustbin of history. Read more »   Financial Crisis Sends Tuition Costs Sky-High as Colleges Face Crunch By Pedro de la Torre III, Campus Progress Not everyone is suffering equally: low and middle income students are particularly vulnerable in the current economic environment. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Bernard Madoff Benefited From That Timeless Classic: The Old Boys Club By Digby, Hullabaloo The only two regulators over the past decade who actually did their jobs were women. Read more »   Bush Pushes Scary Midnight Regulations (Many to Last) By Harry Hanbury, American News Project George W. Bush is on pace to impose more last-minute changes to federal rules than any president in history. Read more »   Conservatives on the Economic Crisis: It's All Your Fault By Gavin M, Sadly, No! Confederate Yankee is here to explain the evils of organized labor. Read more »

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