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June 7, 2011
The Bernanke Scandal: Full-Frontal Cluelessness
How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught emailing photos of his underwear-clad groin. Otherwise we don't stand a chance of reversing this administration's economic policy, which is shaping up to be every bit as disastrous as that of its predecessor.
June 5, 2011 Greek Economy
June 5, 2011 Playing With Default
May 31, 2011
Geithner and Goldman, Thick as Thieves
What was Timothy Geithner thinking back in 2008 when, as president of the New York Fed, he decided to give Goldman Sachs a $30 billion interest-free loan as part of an $80 billion secret float to favored banks? The sordid details of that program were finally made public this week in response to a court-ordered Freedom of Information Act release, thanks to a Bloomberg News lawsuit.
May 30, 2011 Plummeting Prices Deepen Crisis in U.S. Housing Market
May 27, 2011 No Resolution Reached at Greek Austerity Summit
May 24, 2011
Access Journalism: The Movie
It is not true, as a Wall Street Journal reviewer claimed, that the HBO movie version of Andrew Sorkin's book "Too Big to Fail" was "Too Boring to Watch." On the contrary, the problem with the film, as with the richly anecdotal book, is that it is all too effectively misleading.
May 23, 2011 Here Comes Tim Pawlenty
May 23, 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn
May 18, 2011
One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street
The fix was in to let Wall Street off the hook once and for all for its role in the Great Recession ... until last week when the attorney general of New York refused to go along.
May 17, 2011 Obama's Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?
May 17, 2011 Obama's Big Middle East Speech Will Avoid a Big Issue
May 10, 2011
What's the GOP Without bin Laden?
Pity Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the Republican right wing led by the forlorn slate of candidates gearing up to challenge Barack Obama in the next presidential election.
May 10, 2011 New Republican Front-Runner: Herman Cain
May 9, 2011 Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred
May 4, 2011
A Monster of Our Own Creation
When bin Laden turned against us, he morphed into a figure of evil incarnate, and now three decades after we first decided to use him and other imported Muslim zealots for our Cold War purposes, we feel cleansed by his death of any responsibility for his carnage.
May 3, 2011 Accomplish the Mission: Bring the Troops Home
May 3, 2011 Pakistan and America: The Bad Marriage
April 26, 2011
All the WikiLeaks Fit to Print
There is a craven disconnect between the eagerness of leading editors to exploit the important news revealed by WikiLeaks and their efforts to distance themselves from both the courageous website and Bradley Manning, the alleged source of documents posted there.
April 26, 2011 Holder Says WikiLeaks' Gitmo Documents Won't Affect Prosecutions
April 25, 2011 WikiLeaks' Guantanamo Files Released
April 19, 2011
The New Corporate World Order
Of course it will be argued that multinational corporations have the right to arrange their businesses as they see fit in order to maximize profit. But if that is the case, do beleaguered American taxpayers have to foot the bill?
April 19, 2011 Starship Amerika
April 19, 2011 Peanuts for the Rich
April 12, 2011
The False Debate on the Debt
In the ever-so-smug company of the rich and powerful it is a given that there is never to be any expression of remorse or other acknowledgement of the pain they have inflicted on the lesser mortals they so cavalierly plunder.
April 11, 2011 Mitt Tries Again
April 7, 2011 Advertiser Offers to Rescue Desperate Homeowners—for a Price
April 5, 2011
The Peasants Need Pitchforks
The delusion of a classless America in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by the moneyed elite that controls all the key levers of power in what passes for our democracy.
April 4, 2011 This Just In: Obama Running for President
April 3, 2011 No Taxes
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