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1. The Incarceration of the American Consumer

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Mon Oct 6, 2014, 09:56 PM

Oct 2014

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October 06, 2014

How Do They Sleep at Night?

The Incarceration of the American Consumer

by RALPH NADER

How do corporate attorneys sleep at night considering that with the power of their large corporate clients, they often crush the freedoms of workers, consumers and small communities who are trying to break out of a complex web of shackles?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/06/the-incarceration-of-the-american-consumer/

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