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The Health Care Racket – Ralph Nader

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012

Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions

Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 2, 2012

Matt 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 complex
in 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, 2012

FOCUS | Spain Proceeding With Bush Torture Case

Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 17, 2012

School-to-Prison Pipeline | Truthout

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 15, 2012

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 15, 2012

Credit Card Firms: They Don’t Just Steal From Cardholders | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies

Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 4, 2012

That $335 Million Bank of America Settlement: The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly

Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 23, 2011

  New Photos Released of Iraq Atrocity, With Documents and Video :  Information Clearing House

Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine

Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Hold Banks Accountable!

Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 12, 2011

William 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
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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, December 12, 2011

Euro Crisis Pits Germany and US in Tactical Fight

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 11, 2011

Why 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, 2011

The 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, 2011

Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement – Matt Taibbi

Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Was DSK framed? Great article in today’s FT

Posted by Alexander Harper, Saturday, November 26, 2011

UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, November 25, 2011

Suppressing 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
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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Long Shadows of Nixon and Hoover

Fascinating, how people like this get into power. mb
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, November 19, 2011

Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, November 19, 2011