Thu 2008-05-15 00:00 EDT
The Secret Bailout of J. P. Morgan: How Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns and the American Taxpayer
by Ellen Brown
American Taxpayer; Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns; J.P. Morgan; Secret Bailout.
American Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Sat 2008-04-12 00:00 EDT
Hillary's Flimsy Case : Rolling Stone
Hillary's Flimsy Case, by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone; Obama "running as a symbol of a new politics...But if it were to get out that he's not that...then he quickly morphs into a different kind of symbol, a symbol of how an essentially bankrupt political system can seamlessly repackage itself to a fed-up marketplace by making cosmetic changes, without altering its basic nature." "In American politics, always look for the worst possible scenario to emerge triumphant"
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
Capital - WSJ.com
Ten Days That Changed Capitalism, by David Wessel, WSJ.com; "U.S. government discarded a half-century of rules to save American financial capitalism from collapse"
capitalism; com; WSJ.
Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT
GlobalResearch.ca - Centre for Research on Globalization
State of Vermont: House resolution calling for the orderly withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Rebuttal of GaveKal's Bully ``Wealth & Platform Theory''
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Rebuttal of GaveKal's Bully "Wealth & Platform Theory"; platform companies "outsource American jobs to safe production locales like China and Thailand, who then pollute the global environment and fail to account for the negative externalities (true costs) of their production...the peculiar slash and burn notion that the US can just eat its young by outsourcing jobs to foreign polluters, while failing to invest in capex and just merrily borrowing from foreigners against its Bubble induced wealth."; 2006-12-26
economic; GaveKal's Bully; Market; Platform Theory; Rebuttal; watch; wealth; winter.
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him To Be Too Intellectual To Be President? | The Smirking Chimp
Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him To Be Too Intellectual To Be President? by John Dean | The Smirking Chimp; "Republicans have spent the past half century dumbing-down the American presidency, for it has helped them win the White House"; "Anti-intellectual Republican presidents have led this nation into a new age of unreason"
Barack Obama's Smart Speech; intellectual; Perfect Union; President; revealed; Smirking Chimp.
Mon 2008-02-11 00:00 EST
The Chicken Doves: Elected to end the war, Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq | The Smirking Chimp
The Chicken Doves: Elected to end the war, Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq, by Matt Taibbi; K Street astroturf "antiwar coalition" Americans Against the Escalation in Iraq, led by lobbyists Thomas Matzzie and Brad Woodhouse, DSCC consultants Hildebrand Tewes | The Smirking Chimp
Bush; Chicken Doves; Democratic; election; ending; Iraq; Smirking Chimp; surrender; war.
Tue 2008-01-08 00:00 EST
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> This is Not a Drill
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> This is Not a Drill: "...since transparency in American finance has to be at rock bottom, it appears lending is seizing up, and capital is being destroyed. Thats what we would expect at the terminal phase of a massive credit Bust."
Thu 2007-12-06 00:00 EST
Bear In Mind > Too Much Like 1929
Bear In Mind > Too Much Like 1929 (2007-04); chinese-american economic interconnections; similarities to pre-depression US-British conditions
Tue 2007-10-02 00:00 EDT
The Establishment Rethinks Globalization
by Willam Greider (The Nation 2007-04-30); Ralph Gomory "what established authorities teach Americans about global trade is simply wrong"
Thu 2007-05-10 00:00 EDT
The Black Commentator - Wanted: A Plan for the Cities to Save Themselves - Issue 52
"Rampaging capital lays waste to the nation and the world the principal source of war and the despoiler of American cities."
Thu 2007-05-03 00:00 EDT
Democracy Now! | Chalmers Johnson: "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic"
Democracy Now! | Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic; "one of the reasons we had no exit plan from Iraq is that we didn't intend to leave"
American republic; Chalmers Johnson; day; Democracy; nemesis.
Tue 2007-03-27 00:00 EDT
TomDispatch - Tomgram: Americans in the Opinion Polls, Not in the Streets
by Tom Engelhardt (Demobilizing America: Outsourcing Action in an Imperial World)
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")
Wed 2006-10-04 00:00 EDT