Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
AlterNet Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
AlterNet: Only in America Could Misery Be Turned Into a Commodity
by Joe Bageant
Fri 2009-02-13 00:00 EST
AlterNet: Resistance to Housing Foreclosures Spreads Across the Land
by Ben Ehrenreich, The Nation
Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST
AlterNet: The Right Wing's Latest Argument Against Public Health Care -- We'd Like It Too Much
by Lindsay Beyerstein; Cato Institute, wherein Michael F. Cannon argues that blocking Obama's health plan is the key to GOP survival...once people start getting good health care from the government at a price they can afford, they want to keep re-electing the politicians who make that possible.''
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
AlterNet: The Best and the Brightest Have Led America Off a Cliff
Fri 2008-12-12 00:00 EST
AlterNet: Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising?
AlterNet: Noam Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising? ``what's happened to the country...is that there was extensive and very constructive activism in the 1960s...And the activism did civilize the country''; Tom Ferguson's investment theory of politics; Brand Obama; ``The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices...And when they turn to selling a candidate they do the same thing...So you undermine democracy pretty much the same way you undermine markets.''
Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST
AlterNet: Obama's Treasury Pick Has All the Wrong Ideas
Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST
AlterNet: Zombie Economics: Don't Bail out the System that Gave Us SUVs and Strip Malls
AlterNet; bailed; gave; Strip-Mall; SUV; Systems; Zombie Economics.
Thu 2008-07-10 00:00 EDT
AlterNet: 'Foreclosure Phil' Gramm: How John McCain's Closest Economic Advisor Helped Engineer the Morgage Crisis
AlterNet: 'Forclosure Phil' Gramm: How John McCain's Closest Economic Advisor Helped Engineer the Mortgage Crisis; Nomi Prins and David Corn
AlterNet; Foreclosure Phil; Gramm; John McCain's Closest Economic Advisor Helped Engineer; Morgage Crisis.
Fri 2008-07-04 00:00 EDT
AlterNet: Real Journalists Don't Make $5 Million a Year
by Chris Hedges; "The popular media are courtiers...They are the smiley faces of a corporate state that has hijacked the government and is raping the nation."
5; AlterNet; makes; Real Journalists; years.
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
AlterNet: The Wright Controversy Revealed America's Gutless, Panicky, Deeply Insecure Side
by Matt Taibbi; "A society at peace with itself wouldn't have reacted in the way it did to the partly true/partly crazy remarks of Obama's former pastor."
AlterNet; Deeply Insecure Side; panicky; Wright Controversy Revealed America's Gutless.
Mon 2008-03-24 00:00 EDT
AlterNet: NY Public Library 'Trades Naming Rights' to Greedy Hedge Fund Billionaire for Big Bucks
AlterNet: NY Public Library "Trades Naming Rights" to Greedy Hedge Fund Billionaire for Big Bucks, by David Morris; Stephen A. Schwarzman Library for $100 million
AlterNet; Big Buck; Greedy Hedge Fund Billionaire; NY Public Library; Trades Naming Rights.
Tue 2007-02-20 00:00 EST
AlterNet: 737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire
by Chalmers Johnson (excerpt from "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic")