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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
The Center for Responsive Politics reports that among the top twenty contributors (counting both corporate political action committees and affiliated individuals) to the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign were: Enron (#11); Arthur Andersen, its accounting firm (#5); and Vinson and Elkins, its law firm (#2). Source: Center for Responsive Politics.

Crime in the Suites: The rot in America's financial system is structural and systemic (William Greider, The Nation).
Exploring a Deal to Offer Sex Videos: When things looked bad for Enron, it tried to fall back on pornography (John Schwartz, New York Times).
There is an Alternative: Radical conservatism has been orthodoxy for 40 years. The left must steel itself to challenge it. (Serge Halimi, Le Monde-Diplomatique).
We Will Not Tolerate the Abuse of War Prisoners: England and the United States have different views about what is just (Hugo Young, The Guardian).
Veep Tried to Aid Enron: Dick Cheney tried to help Enron collect a $64 million debt from a giant energy project in India (Timothy Berger, New York Daily News).
Arms Buildup is a Boon to Firm Run by Big Guns: The Carlyle Group has done very well thanks to the recent surge in military spending (Mark Fineman, Los Angeles Times).
Nobel Laureates Centennial Appeal: 18 winners—excluding, for some reason, Henry Kissinger—of the Nobel Peace Prize urge the formation of an International Criminal Court (The Nation).

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