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The Health Care Racket – Ralph Nader
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 2, 2012Matt Stoller: Lanny Breuer, Task Force Leader, Doesn’t Bother Showing Up For Mortgage Fraud Press Conference
Stoller in nakedcapitalism .... the FBI has assigned 10 agents and analysts to work with the group immediately. In the coming weeks, another 30 attorneys, investigators, and support staff from U.S. Attorneys’ Offices will join the Group’s work. So that’s a total of 55 people, 10 of whom are FBI agents. Let’s do a few comparisons. During the Savings and Loan crisis, Bill Black reminds us that there were about a thousand FBI agents working on the various cases. That’s one hundred times the number of people working on a scandal that is about forty times larger and far more complexin a related story, Matt Taibbi asks "Is Obama's 'Economic Populism' for Real?" - short answer: No - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 28, 2012
Getting Rid of an Anti-Israel President
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 22, 2012FOCUS | Spain Proceeding With Bush Torture Case
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 17, 2012School-to-Prison Pipeline | Truthout
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 15, 2012Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 15, 2012Credit Card Firms: They Don’t Just Steal From Cardholders | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 10, 2012Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 4, 2012That $335 Million Bank of America Settlement: The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 23, 2011New Photos Released of Iraq Atrocity, With Documents and Video : Information Clearing House
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 20, 2011Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 14, 2011Hold Banks Accountable!
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 12, 2011William Rivers Pitt: The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America
Pitt on the revelation that the Air Force dumped the remains of 274 American troops in a landfill ..This program of indecent disposal of dead American service members began, and concluded, during the administration of George W. Bush .. {Soldiers] are turned away from VA hospitals for lack of funds or insurance coverage, foreclosed upon by predatory lenders, left to shrift for themselves if alive, buried in the cold ground of a soldier's grave if not, or simply tossed into a landfill like a bag of household garbage. If anyone ever needed to see and fully encompass the true sum and substance of the administration of George W. Bush, and of all that has gone wrong in America, this despicable scandal tells you all you need to know.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, December 12, 2011
Euro Crisis Pits Germany and US in Tactical Fight
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 11, 2011Why banking works one big confidence trick
"Banking is one large, clever, and finely tuned, confidence trick. On the one hand are bank notes which are “legal tender for all... "Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 9, 2011
License to Profit: Legalized Corruption in the US Congress
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 7, 2011The Lost Opportunity of Iran-Contra | Consortiumnews
When you review what Johnson. Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush have on their records, sure seems like a bunch of crooks.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, December 3, 2011
Massachusetts Files Major Foreclosure-Abuse Lawsuit
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, December 3, 2011Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement – Matt Taibbi
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, November 30, 2011Was DSK framed? Great article in today’s FT
Posted by Alexander Harper, Saturday, November 26, 2011UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, November 25, 2011Suppressing Nonviolent Dissent – An anthology of police brutality at encampments across America
Adbusters gives us all the highlights ..Veterans assaulted with truncheons, women dragged through the streets by their hair, grandmothers pepper sprayed in the face, peaceful protestors bludgeoned while sitting. Sound like something authorities in Egypt, Tunisia or Syria would order and condone? Think again. It's happening here in the US.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, November 20, 2011
The Long Shadows of Nixon and Hoover
Fascinating, how people like this get into power. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Saturday, November 19, 2011

