Attorneys for RFK convicted killer Sirhan push ‘second gunman’ argument – CNN.com

Who Stole the American Dream in Broad Daylight?

Livin’ in a Bankster’s Paradise

Jane Hamsher: Schneiderman Victims, Share Your Thoughts on the Settlement

As former Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Kouril said on FDL this morning, “The court system will be permanently corrupted by forged and perjurious documents…This settlement is an incredible breach of the social contract between the government and the governed.” We are especially disappointed in the “Justice Democrats” — particularly Attorney Generals Eric Schneiderman and Kamala Harris — whose complicity proves that any faith in their moral fiber or independence was misplaced. When Timothy Geither and the Obama White House pressed them to fold, they did so. At a time when America needs leaders to fight for justice and accountability, they chose to advance their own careers by protecting the corporations and bankers of the oligarch class — hoping that a few press releases filled with platitudes echoed through an expensive propaganda machine will fool a credulous public. It won’t.

Obama’s Guiding Principle: Leave No One Accountable

The Obama Administration has followed a predictable pattern we now recognize. It has consistently functioned like criminal defense counsel, whose mission is to get their criminal clients, the major corporations and executives who fund their elections, off with no admission of guilt, no forced resignations, and as little harm to their reputation, or that of the counsel, as possible. To do this, they neutralize anyone with an ounce of public purpose in their veins. Its role is then to convince the public that whatever you thought or feared was going on in America, and whoever you believed had caused the collapse of America’s economy, caused millions to lose their jobs, their homes and their retirements and continued to loot the country, it’s time to look forward. Because everyone who matters — and that’s not you — now agrees, they say, to function in the public interest, even though it’s a bald face lie, since nothing has changed and the looters and their complicit overseers are still in charge

The Health Care Racket – Ralph Nader

Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions

Matt Stoller: Lanny Breuer, Task Force Leader, Doesn’t Bother Showing Up For Mortgage Fraud Press Conference

.. 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

Getting Rid of an Anti-Israel President

FOCUS | Spain Proceeding With Bush Torture Case

School-to-Prison Pipeline | Truthout

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

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

Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies

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

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

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine

Hold Banks Accountable!

William Rivers Pitt: The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America

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

Euro Crisis Pits Germany and US in Tactical Fight

Why banking works one big confidence trick

License to Profit: Legalized Corruption in the US Congress

The Lost Opportunity of Iran-Contra | Consortiumnews

Massachusetts Files Major Foreclosure-Abuse Lawsuit

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