BP CEO Hayward Trying not to Step in it
In this one self-protective gesture, BP CEO Tony Hayward totally gives himself away.
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Construction is Booming! The Recovery has Arrived!
The construction industry has recovered. It's just a little further east than anybody at home would like.
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How Many News Stories Do You See About It When Haitians Get Pissed Off…
Not Seeing Quite As Many Reports Of Those Haitians Getting Pretty Pissed Off In a Constructive Way.
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Haiti: "Nobody in Charge" (As Far As U.S. Is Concerned)
It's like "Where's Waldo?" -- except the guy we can't find is René Préval.
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The Particular Darkness of Our Great Recession
With Larry Summers schmoozing the unemployment numbers, and with the administration jawboning the banks to somehow self-police themselves while otherwise enabling them to maintain business as usual, the fallout continues desperately, disasterously and mostly under-the-radar.
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Birther Attack Gets a Fort Hood Twist
By tying in Fort Hood, Phil Wolf's birther billboard constructed at his Colorado auto lot takes the "Obama as a closet Muslim" (or "Obama as secret Jihadist") scare tactic to a whole new and much sicker level.
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Outside the Pittsburgh G20: Bats in Hand
Police action at the Pittsburgh G-20 proves more than a game.
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Salud
If a health bill, in the form of an "ode to the Republicans," passes the Congress and all pipelines to services for illegal (and even less-than-five year legal) immigrants are cut off, does the next version of this story offer men simply keeling over in "our" spinach?
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Obama’s Speech, The Health Care Wars and The Fluorescent Light of the Here-and-Now
As the health care debate alternately evolves and devolves, I savor every image infusing right-wing myth-making with a jolt of reality.
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End of Life: A Process, Not An Act
Just like the Remote Area Medical clinic images a few weeks back provided a sobering counterpoint to the townhall cranks, Getty's John Moore delivers a series offering a dose of reality to the "death panel" hysteria.
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Health Care: Passing Look at a Remote Area
Pardon the break from the public hysteria over health care for this sobering dose of reality.
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Health Care Sandwich
If you watch the video from the local news station, you can tell how tense the scene was with Perlmutter -- at one point -- having to cajole the mob elements to settle down. With hostility all around and picture captions identify most of the citizens present as critics...
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Arnold Watch: Oh Captain, My Captain
The beauty of Getty photographer John Moore's image of Schwarzenegger's press conference/photo op as he blasts the legislature while upping state worker furloughs and issuing tax refund, bank and vendor IOU's?
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Eviction Update
One has only to glimpse this image to intuit the question: how many people suffering the recession are just barely keeping their heads above water?
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More Unraveling
This post is a follow-up to one featured yesterday, offering the powerful images of photojournalist John Moore, powerful evidence of this cruel recession, and one family's unwarranted eviction.
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The Great Unraveling
Mary Ann Smith collects some belongings after an eviction team removed the furniture from her foreclosed house. This is a scene of personal desolation.
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