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Impending Chicago Teachers' Strike Adds Power to Nationwide Movements Again=
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism:</strong> The battle over the future of Fannie and Freddie, and who controls government subsidies to housing, is ongoing. The presidential candidates don't seem to have much to say on this issue, but rest assured it will come to the fore not all that long into a new administration.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords:</strong> As lawmakers scurried to keep the government open and head home for the holidays, they wrapped spending and tax deals into a monster bill, extending tax incentives for wind and solar power while lifting a ban on crude oil exports that began during Jimmy Carter's presidency.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!:</strong> Reporters have uncovered accounts that in May 2012 members of a Navy SEAL team stationed at an outpost in Kalach, in southern Afghanistan, abused detainees that had been rounded up as suspects after a bomb exploded at a military checkpoint. Four US soldiers at the outpost witnessed the abuse.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Michael Grabell, ProPublica:</strong> Using its economic leverage - combined with time-honored wining and dining and behind-the-scenes arm-twisting - Tyson has helped steer legislative changes through several states in the South and Midwest. It has urged officials, often successfully, to remove or appoint workers' comp judges.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News:</strong> This week marks 10 years since Operation Streamline took effect. The policy significantly increased caseloads in criminal courts along the southern US border by criminalizing what used to be a civil offense: illegal re-entry into the United States.</p>
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