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Matt Taibbi and Bank Whistleblower on How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy, Avoid Prosecution A year ago this month the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the banking giant JPMorgan Chase would avoid criminal charges by agreeing to pay $13 billion to settle claims that it had ... Read More → Guests Alayne Fleischmann, JPMorgan Chase whistleblower. She was a deal manager at the bank, where she says she witnessed "massive criminal securities fraud" in its mortgage operations during the period leading up to the financial crisis. Matt Taibbi, award-winning journalist with Rolling Stone magazine. His latest article is headlined "The $9 Billion Witness." He is author of the book The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. Related All the Presidents’ Bankers: Nomi Prins on the Secret History of Washington-Wall Street Collusion Apr 08, 2014 | Story Part 2: Barlett and Steele on Media, Govt. Failure to Hold Wall St. Accountable for Financial Crimes Aug 01, 2012 | Web Exclusive Noam Chomsky: 2012 GOP Candidates Views are "Off the International Spectrum of Sane Behavior" Sep 19, 2011 | Story Links Read: "The $9 Billion Witness" by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone) Follow Matt Taibbi on Twitter Watch all Democracy Now! interviews with Matt Taibbi

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Matt Taibbi | The $9 Billion Witness

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn't take it anymore."
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Republican Hawks Already Have a War Plan for ISIS, Ukraine and Obama
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Lake writes: "The Republican victory in the 2014 midterms is less than 24 hours old. But already, the hawkish wing of the GOP is planning an ambitious battle plan to revamp American foreign policy."
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Jane Ayers | Oregon's GMO Labeling Defeated? Not So Fast; Results Not In
Jane Ayers, Reader Supported News
Ayers writes: "Big Ag monies might have broken State of Oregon records for pouring the most amount of money into a state initiative, but Oregonians have held their own in the highly charged vote on GMO labeling (Measure 92)."
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Fed Issues New Rule to Prevent Banks From Becoming Too Big to Fail
Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters
Lynch writes: "The U.S. Federal Reserve unveiled a final rule on Wednesday designed to prevent large financial firms from becoming so big that their failure could shake the core of the U.S. financial market."
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The Call for Mexico's President to Resign Is Growing Louder
Jorge Ramos, Fusion
Ramos reports: "Above all, many Mexicans are demanding that Peña Nieto resign because they are outraged at his response to the disappearance of 43 college students who were reportedly rounded up in September by local authorities in the state of Guerrero."
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Charles Pierce | A Ray of Light
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Ordinarily, I don't have a lot of patience for not-in-my-backyard issues. The one exception I make is when people's actual backyards are at stake."
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Russian Actor and Outspoken Critic of Vladimir Putin Found Dead in His Home
Howard Amos, Guardian UK
Amos reports: "Alexei Devotchenko, an actor and outspoken critic of the president Vladimir Putin, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Wednesday evening."
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Elections a 'Bloodbath' for Environmental Policy, Advocates Say
Peter Moskowitz, Al Jazeera America
Moskowitz reports: "Just days after a United Nations panel warned that failure to dramatically and quickly curb the burning of fossil fuels would do "irreversible damage" to the planet, the U.S. electorate on Tuesday voted in a Congress even more committed to the carbon status quo. "
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