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On Wed, 30 June, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will hold day long hearings on the topic of derivatives.
Session 1 will provide an overview of derivatives, and Michael Greenberger is scheduled to testify.
Session 2 will focus on AIG’s Derivatives, with Joesph Cassano scheduled to provide testimony.
Session 3 will focus on Goldman Sachs’ derivative products.

Net Neutrality affects you every time you log on to the Internet, pay your phone bill, or click a link. The FCC will play a key role in determining whether the Internet belongs to the public, or whether a few monolithic telecoms will control it.

Markets are the simplistic solution offered to solve most American problems, but they are not effective in distributing health care. Just because you can buy diamonds does not mean that you can purchase ‘a gallon of health’ at the store, which tells you quite simply that for-profit health insurance companies are not the most efficient means to deliver health care.

Did you realize that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska represents only 0.58% of all US citizens?
Did you realize that Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas represents only .93% of tall US citizens?
Would you call it Tyranny of the Itsy-Bitsy-Teenie-Weenie-Minority if you realized that health care reform is being held up by people representing about 4% of all US citizens?

In less than one minute, you can slide your mouse to get a sense of how your lifestyle and your choices affect the global environment — check out the Guardian’s new Interactive Carbon Calculator.

Need some tools to understand and take **constructive action** to fundamentally restructure the shameful legislation that led to bailouts, obscene bonuses, and economic fraud? Nine minutes and a good Internet connection are your ticket to a brief overview.

Just landed on a guest post at The Washington Note that anyone interested in better understanding how Cheney pulled off his institutionalized theft should read.

It’s unusual to hear a concise condemnation of torture from the point of view of American’s military. A link to this OpEd turned up on an comment at Emptywheel’s, and deserves much wider reading for it’s clarity, courage, and frankness.

EW and Greenwald have been slammed for their analysis of Cheney’s conduct.
Why is ‘media criticism’ the weapon being claimed by conservatives in this knife fight?

What’s the simplest, quickest way to create a snapshot of 50,000,000 uninsured Americans? If we ‘mapped out’ the population of uninsured Americans, how many state populations would we have to add in order to total that figure of 50,000,000?