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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
According to Citizens for Tax Justice, which maintains a model that shows how the American tax structure affects taxpayers across the income spectrum, 34 million taxpayers will get no rebate at all this year. However, 2 million upper-income taxpayers who are not supposed to benefit from the new 10% tax bracket will get rebate checks anyway. Source: Citizens for Tax Justice.

Fuming: The honeymoon between the Bush administration and the press may have ended (Ryan Lizza, New Republic Online).

Trying Times: can an executive from Cisco Systems inject new life into a struggling left-wing journal? (Danielle Svetcov, Chicago Tribune)
Clean Elections at Stake: Will the Massachusetts Democratic Party renege on a commitment to real campaign finance reform? (Micah Safry, The Nation Online)
Citizen Kane on Steroids: In Italy, when Berlusconi won, democracy lost (Martin Lee, In These Times).
Hug Your Customer: As much as they might try, multinational corporations can never really be our good friends (Naomi Klein, The Guardian).
Surprise Party: The movie Pearl Harbor ignores how colonialism had a large role in starting the Pacific War (Mickey Z., ZNet, via OnlineJournal.com)

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