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Lee Wrights: Communist Party chair endorses ‘lesser of two evils’

August 6th, 2011 · 10 Comments

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (Aug. 7) – Even though he said he was “disappointed” by “some aspects” of President Obama’s domestic and foreign policy, the chairman of the Communist Party has endorsed the President for reelection in 2012. Writing in The People’s World, CPUSA chair Sam Webb said, “In our view, the differences [...]

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Nader’s warnings to rating agencies

August 6th, 2011 · 8 Comments

Ralph Nader quotes conservative writer Holman Jenkins in telling the S&P and other ratings agencies, “it is foppish in the extreme of S&P to imagine its opinion is needed or valued, and one more reason to expedite a rare useful provision of Dodd-Frank – it’s requirement that federal law be purged of language requiring investors to act on the opinions of rating agencies.”

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