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[posted on corp-focus, September 14, 2006] Cesspool By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Ah, the cesspool. That would, of course, be Congress. Aka Capitol Hill. We caught a whiff of the cesspool the other day when a group of corporate liberals announced that they were going to launch yet another “newspaper” to cover the cesspool.…

It’s a grim day for the pharmaceutical industry. A federal monitor has forced out the CEO of Bristol-Myers-Squibb (BMS), for violating the terms of an agreement with prosecutors. The old agreement involved a major accounting manipulation, by which BMS pushed product to wholesalers to misleadingly boost earnings. Under the terms of the deal, BMS was…

The New York Times and Washington Post this morning both contain remarkable reports on Hezbollah’s reconstruction efforts in Lebanon. Suddenly, the guns are set aside, and Hezbollah members are surveying the wreckage, promising payment to victims and refugees, and sitting atop bulldozers pushing aside rubble. Reports the Times: While the Israelis began their withdrawal, hundreds…