McCain's campaign co-chair and economic adviser was Swiss bank lobbyist
during
mortgage crisis; two Supreme Court decisions offer workers legal
protections
in workplace retaliation cases; US businessman testifies to loaning
Israel's
Prime Minister Olmert large sums of cash for political and personal
expenses;
European leaders and economists call for rethinking of financial market
regulation and governance in the name of "social morality"; Sha**** Tharoor
on
the illusionary benevolence of McCain's proposed "league of democracies";
and
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t r u t h o u t | 05.28
McCain Economic Policy Shaped by Lobbyist
http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-economic-policy-shaped-lobbyist
Jonathan Larsen re****ts for MSNBC News: "Republican presidential candidate
Sen. John McCain's national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a
Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the US mortgage crisis at the same time
he
was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal records show ...
lobbying disclosure forms, filed by the giant Swiss bank UBS, list
McCain's
campaign co-chair, former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, as a lobbyist dealing
specifically with legislation regarding the mortgage crisis as recently as
December 31, 2007."
Workers Can Sue Firms Over Retaliation, Supreme Court Rules
http://www.truthout.org/article/workers-can-sue-firms-over-retaliation-supreme-court-rules
The Christian Science Monitor's Warren Richey re****ts: "In two decisions
announced on Tuesday, the US Supreme Court embraced an expansive view of
certain civil rights laws that do not explicitly outlaw acts of
retaliation
... The majority justices ruled that employees can claim legal protections
against retaliation even if the law does not specifically bar acts of
retaliation."
US Businessman Testifies He Gave Olmert $150,000 Over 13 Years
http://www.truthout.org/article/us-businessman-testifies-he-gave-olmert-150000-over-13-years
Isabel Kershner re****ts for The New York Times: "A Long Island businessman
at
the heart of a corruption case involving Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told
an
Israeli court on Tuesday that he gave about $150,000, mostly in cash
stuffed
into envelopes, to Mr. Olmert over the course of 13 years... the
businessman,
Morris Talansky, said that much of the money was earmarked for election
campaigns but that some was for Mr. Olmert's personal expenses."
Jacques Delors et al. | Mad Finance Must Not Rule Us
http://www.truthout.org/article/mad-finance-must-not-rule-us
Several former European heads of state and government, along with former
economics and/or finance ministers from a handful of countries, publish an
impassioned call in Le Monde for a dramatic rethinking of financial market
regulation and governance - in Europe and globally. They write, "Free
markets
cannot make a mockery of social morality."
Sha**** Tharoor | Mini-League of Nations Would Cause Only Division
http://www.truthout.org/article/mini-league-nations-would-cause-only-division
Sha**** Tharoor writes for The Guardian UK: "Amid the continuing brouhaha
about
issues of race and gender in the US presidential campaign, we may be in
danger
of losing sight of the most im****tant question that has arisen in the
candidates' skirmi****ng over international affairs. That relates to John
McCain's advocacy of the establishment of a 'league of democracies,' and
the
mounting clamour for Barack Obama to espouse the same idea as his own."
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