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risis was exacerbated years ago by a deal with Goldman Sachs, engineered by Goldman’s current CEO, Lloyd Blankfein.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Blankfein and his Goldman team helped Greece hide the true extent of its debt, and in the process almost doubled it. And just as with the American subprime crisis, and the current plight of many American cities, Wall Street’s predatory lending played an important although little-recognized role.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">In 2001, Greece was looking for ways to disguise its mounting financial troubles. The Maastricht Treaty required all eurozone member states to show improvement in their public finances, but Greece was heading in the wrong direction.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Then Goldman Sachs came to the rescue, arranging a secret loan of 2.8 billion euros for Greece, disguised as an off-the-books “cross-currency swap”—a complicated transaction in which Greece’s foreign-currency debt was converted into a domestic-currency obligation using a fictitious market exchange rate.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">As a result, about 2 percent of Greece’s debt magically disappeared from its national accounts. Christoforos Sardelis, then head of Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency, later described the deal to Bloomberg Business as “a very sexy story between two sinners.”</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">For its services, Goldman received a whopping 600 million euros ($793 million), according to Spyros Papanicolaou, who took over from Sardelis in 2005. That came to about 12 percent of Goldman’s revenue from its giant trading and principal-investments unit in 2001—which posted record sales that year. The unit was run by Blankfein.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Then the deal turned sour. After the 9/11 attacks, bond yields plunged, resulting in a big loss for Greece because of the formula Goldman had used to compute the country’s debt repayments under the swap. By 2005, Greece owed almost double what it had put into the deal, pushing its off-the-books debt from 2.8 billion euros to 5.1 billion.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">In 2005, the deal was restructured and that 5.1 billion euros in debt locked in. Perhaps not incidentally, Mario Draghi, now head of the European Central Bank and a major player in the current Greek drama, was then managing director of Goldman’s international division.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Greece wasn’t the only sinner. Until 2008, European Union accounting rules allowed member nations to manage their debt with so-called off-market rates in swaps, pushed by Goldman and other Wall Street banks. In the late 1990s, JPMorgan enabled Italy to hide its debt by swapping currency at a favorable exchange rate, thereby committing Italy to future payments that didn’t appear on its national accounts as future liabilities.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">But Greece was in the worst shape, and Goldman was the biggest enabler. Undoubtedly, Greece suffers from years of corruption and tax avoidance by its wealthy. But Goldman wasn’t an innocent bystander: It padded its profits by leveraging Greece to the hilt—along with much of the rest of the global economy. Other Wall Street banks did the same. When the bubble burst, all that leveraging pulled the world economy to its knees.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Even with the global economy reeling from Wall Street’s excesses, Goldman offered Greece another gimmick. In early November 2009, three months before the country’s debt crisis became global news, a Goldman team proposed a financial instrument that would push the debt from Greece’s healthcare system far into the future. This time, though, Greece didn’t bite.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">As we know, Wall Street got bailed out by American taxpayers. And in subsequent years, the banks became profitable again and repaid their bailout loans. Bank shares have gone through the roof. Goldman’s were trading at $53 a share in November 2008; they’re now worth over $200. Executives at Goldman and other Wall Street banks have enjoyed huge pay packages and promotions. Blankfein, now Goldman’s CEO, raked in $24 million last year alone.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Meanwhile, the people of Greece struggle to buy medicine and food.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">There are analogies here in America, beginning with the predatory loans made by Goldman, other big banks, and the financial companies they were allied with in the years leading up to the bust. Today, even as the bankers vacation in the Hamptons, millions of Americans continue to struggle with the aftershock of the financial crisis in terms of lost jobs, savings, and homes.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Meanwhile, cities and states across America have been forced to cut essential services because they’re trapped in similar deals sold to them by Wall Street banks. Many of these deals have involved swaps analogous to the ones Goldman sold the Greek government.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">And much like the assurances it made to the Greek government, Goldman and other banks assured the municipalities that the swaps would let them borrow more cheaply than if they relied on traditional fixed-rate bonds—while downplaying the risks they faced. Then, as interest rates plunged and the swaps turned out to cost far more, Goldman and the other banks refused to let the municipalities refinance without paying hefty fees to terminate the deals.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Three years ago, the Detroit Water Department had to pay Goldman and other banks penalties totaling $547 million to terminate costly interest-rate swaps. Forty percent of Detroit’s water bills still go to paying off the penalty. Residents of Detroit whose water has been shut off because they can’t pay have no idea that Goldman and other big banks are responsible.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Likewise, the Chicago school system—whose budget is already cut to the bone—must pay over $200 million in termination penalties on a Wall Street deal that had Chicago schools paying $36 million a year in interest-rate swaps.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">A deal involving interest-rate swaps that Goldman struck with Oakland, California, more than a decade ago has ended up costing the city about $4 million a year, but Goldman has refused to allow Oakland out of the contract unless it ponies up a $16 million termination fee—prompting the city council to pass a resolution to boycott Goldman. When confronted at a shareholder meeting about it, Blankfein explained that it was against shareholder interests to tear up a valid contract.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Goldman Sachs and the other giant Wall Street banks are masterful at selling complex deals by exaggerating their benefits and minimizing their costs and risks. That’s how they earn giant fees. When a client gets into trouble—whether that client is an American homeowner, a US city, or Greece—Goldman ducks and hides behind legal formalities and shareholder interests.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">Borrowers that get into trouble are rarely blameless, of course: They spent too much, and were gullible or stupid enough to buy Goldman’s pitches. Greece brought on its own problems, as did many American homeowners and municipalities.</p><p class="" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:15px;text-indent:30pt">But in all of these cases, Goldman knew very well what it was doing. It knew more about the real risks and costs of the deals it proposed than those who accepted them. “It is an issue of morality,” said the shareholder at the Goldman meeting where Oakland came up. Exactly.</p><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"></div></div></div><span class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;height:1px;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> </span><div id="jc" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><div id="comments" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:673px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px"><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(85,85,85);background-color:inherit;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(210,218,219)">Comments <a class="" href="http://readersupportednews.org/component/jcomments/feed/com_content/31368" title="RSS feed for comments to this post" target="_blank" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(78,78,78);background-color:initial!important;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;display:inline-block;background-image:url(http://readersupportednews.org/components/com_jcomments/tpl/default/images/jc_rss.gif)!important;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat!important"> </a><a class="" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31368-focus-how-goldman-sachs-profited-from-the-greek-debt-crisis#" title="Refresh comments list" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(78,78,78);background-color:initial!important;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;display:inline-block;background-image:url(http://readersupportednews.org/components/com_jcomments/tpl/default/images/jc_refresh.gif)!important;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat!important"> </a></h4><div style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:30px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:40px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;line-height:17px;font-size:14px;font:normal normal normal 1em/normal Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,Times,serif"><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-ri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div></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_1" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31353-focus-max-reads-moralizing-justification-for-gawkers-vile-article" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017328-greenwald-071815.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017328-greenwald-071815.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017328-greenwald-071815.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31353-focus-max-reads-moralizing-justification-for-gawkers-vile-article" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">FOCUS: Max Read&#39;s Moralizing Justification For Gawker&#39;s Vile Article</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">18 July 2015</div></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_2" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31336-focus-the-35-year-old-georgia-mother-who-was-shot-and-killed-by-police" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017312-killed-by-police-071715.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017312-killed-by-police-071715.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017312-killed-by-police-071715.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31336-focus-the-35-year-old-georgia-mother-who-was-shot-and-killed-by-police" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">FOCUS: The 35-Year-Old Georgia Mother Who Was Shot And Killed By Police</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Charles Pierce, Esquire</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">17 July 2015</div></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_3" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31344-in-defense-of-james-baldwin-why-toni-morrison-a-literary-genius-is-wrong-about-ta-nehisi-coates" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017313-west-071715.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017313-west-071715.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017313-west-071715.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31344-in-defense-of-james-baldwin-why-toni-morrison-a-literary-genius-is-wrong-about-ta-nehisi-coates" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">In Defense Of James Baldwin - Why Toni Morrison (A Literary Genius) Is Wrong About Ta-Nehisi Coates</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Cornel West, Cornel West&#39;s Facebook Page</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">17 July 2015</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:5px;padding-right:4px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:4px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(81,81,81);border-right-color:rgb(81,81,81);border-bottom-color:rgb(176,176,176);border-left-color:rgb(81,81,81)"><table class="" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:28px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:28px;padding-left:0px;height:22px;background-image:none;background-color:initial"><tbody style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial"><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_0" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31327-that-time-ronald-reagan-opened-iran-and-illegally-sold-khomeini-weapons" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017297-reagan-071615.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017297-reagan-071615.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017297-reagan-071615.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31327-that-time-ronald-reagan-opened-iran-and-illegally-sold-khomeini-weapons" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">That Time Ronald Reagan Opened Iran And Illegally Sold Khomeini Weapons</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Juan Cole, Informed Comment</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">16 July 2015</div></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_1" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31319-focus-oppose-the-deal-with-iran-what-about-iran-contra" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017296-reagan-071615.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017296-reagan-071615.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017296-reagan-071615.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31319-focus-oppose-the-deal-with-iran-what-about-iran-contra" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">FOCUS: Oppose The Deal With Iran? What About Iran-Contra?</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">16 July 2015</div></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_2" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31352-focus-the-summer-of-killer-immigrants-brought-to-you-by-bill-oreilly" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017327-oreilly-071815.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017327-oreilly-071815.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017327-oreilly-071815.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31352-focus-the-summer-of-killer-immigrants-brought-to-you-by-bill-oreilly" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">FOCUS: The Summer Of Killer Immigrants, Brought To You By Bill O&#39;Reilly</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">18 July 2015</div></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_3" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31334-usisraelisaudi-behavior-problems" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017304-bibi-obama-071715.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017304-bibi-obama-071715.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017304-bibi-obama-071715.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31334-usisraelisaudi-behavior-problems" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">US/Israeli/Saudi &#39;Behavior&#39; Problems</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Robert Parry, Consortium News</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">17 July 2015</div></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><td valign="top" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center"><a id="thumb_4" href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31335-focus-the-chattanooga-shootings-can-attacking-military-sites-of-a-nation-at-war-be-qterrorismq" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://readersupportednews.org/modules/mod_thumbsup/image.php/017311-chattanooga-1-071715.jpg?width=147&amp;height=70&amp;cropratio=42:20&amp;&amp;image=/images/stories/article_imgs17/017311-chattanooga-1-071715.jpg&amp;docroot=/home/marcash/public_html" alt="017311-chattanooga-1-071715.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; float: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-color: initial; "></a><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31335-focus-the-chattanooga-shootings-can-attacking-military-sites-of-a-nation-at-war-be-qterrorismq" class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,105,110);text-decoration:none;text-transform:capitalize;clear:both">FOCUS | The Chattanooga Shootings: Can Attacking Military Sites Of A Nation At War Be &quot;Terrorism&quot;?</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:11px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;clear:left">Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept</div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;color:rgb(220,59,65)">17 July 2015</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;clear:both"> </div></div><div id="footer" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(152,153,157);clear:both;text-align:center;width:990px"><div class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:5px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:0px"><ul class="" id="footer" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:5px;padding-right:15px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:15px"><li class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:inline"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/privacy-policy" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:20px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11px"><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">PRIVACY POLICY</span></a></li><li class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:inline"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/terms-of-use" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:20px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11px"><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">TERMS OF USE</span></a></li><li class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:inline"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/contact-us" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:20px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11px"><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">CONTACT US</span></a></li><li class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;displ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