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IRS, Benghazi “Scandals” Won’t Hurt Dems in 2014

Randy Shaw: Democratic success in 2014 hinges not on the impact of the IRS and other “scandals” but on passing comprehensive immigration reform, rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline, and avoiding a budget deal that undermines Social Security.

Will JPMorgan Chase Bankers Finally Pay the Piper?

By Richard Eskow

RJ Eskow: Will Kamala Harris hang tough in her new lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, the first to target individual bankers accused of defrauding the public? If so, it would be the first time in five years that executives at a major bank have personally paid a price for their misdeeds.

Supercommittee Sins

By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: The sin of the supercommittee is that it has merely mirrored the old-think politics it was created to rise above.

From Casey Anthony to Wall Street: Crime Pays

By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: One of the great sources of outrage in our age is that again and again, crime pays. The victims, from young girls who die while vermin eat their corpse to embezzled investors who lose their money, from tortured prisoners to jobless workers to homeless victims of mortgage fraud, pay the price.

Civilian Casualties: Hundreds of Thousands in Iraq, Tens of Thousands in Afghanistan But Who’s Counting?

By Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden: One of the great scandals of the Long War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is the often-deliberate fog of confusion smothering public knowledge of civilian casualties.

The Great Collapse of the Chicago Climate Exchange

By Patrick Henningsen

Patrick Henningsen: Plagued by a free fall in carbon emissions prices and the perennial failure of Washington to pass any binding Cap and Trade Bill, it seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last leg, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.

Catholic Church: Safe Haven for Criminals?

By David A. Love

David A. Love: I have concluded that any nonreligious organization with such a track record of abuse would have been indicted under the RICO Act a long time ago, for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. Racketeering, pedophilia, rape, assault, and criminal conspiracy to cover up all of the above—these are the things for which prisons were made.

Turning Hoes into Housewives

By K. Danielle Edwards

Tattered and fractured relationships have so become the norm, that we have placed conventional labels on these incredibly conditional arrangements.

Stop “Crimes Against Humanity and Geological Scandals”: Give AFRICOM a Chance In Congo

By Georgianne Nienaber

linton’s uncompromising condemnation of perpetrators of sexual violence has not been thoroughly emphasized or analyzed, but sniping has already begun about AFRICOM’s involvement in her initiative.