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Fighting the Greedy Defense Lobbyists
Our Schools vs. Their Worthless Weaponry http://tinyurl.co m/88qzx4 Greed has Pushed Political Credibility and Financial Trust into Freefall Recent scandals in America reveal a value system that puts... ...
World Faces "Total" Financial Meltdown: Bank of Spain Chief
By AFP The governor of the Bank of Spain on Sunday issued a bleak assessment of the economic crisis, warning that the world faced a "total" financial meltdown unseen since the Great Depression. http://www.in formationclearinghouse.inf o/article21518.htm With ... ...
The body count on Main Street
In These Times by Nick Turse 12/19/08 On Oct. 4, in Los Angeles, Karthik Rajaram, 45, shot his wife, mother-in-law and three sons before turning the gun on himself. In a suicide note, Rajaram wrote that... ...
Bush, Obama opt for corporatism
Cato Institute by David Boaz 12/17/08 We’ve always had some elements of the corporate state in America — subsidies, tariffs, monopoly privileges, regulatory cartels — but we’ve prospered because of the... ...
$1.6 billion went to bailed-out bank execs
Bozeman Daily Chronicle 12/21/08 Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits in the calendar year 2007, an Associated... ...
Capitalism Short Circuits Our Moral Hard-Wiring
By Gary Olson Perhaps not since the 1930s have our citizens been more skeptical of received wisdom about our socioeconomic system. That is, the carefully manufactured narrative of market capitalist identity... ...
Bailouts unconstitutional failures
OpenMarket.org by Hans Bader 12/17/08 Jacob Sullum’s recent column argues that Bush’s auto bailout plan is an unconstitutional violation of separation of powers. We earlier argued that it was either... ...
Obama looking at $850 billion “stimulus” scam
Salisbury Post 12/17/08 Anxious to jolt the economy back to life, President-elect Barack Obama appears to be zeroing in on a stimulus package of about $850 billion, dwarfing last spring’s tax rebates... ...
The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff
By Chris Hedges The multiple failures that beset the country, from our mismanaged economy to our shredded constitutional rights to our lack of universal health care to our imperial debacles in the Middle... ...
London Banker: "The market has failed, and officialdom is perpetuating that failure"
By Mike Whitney It is now clear to me that policy makers in the West are determined to apply every available resource to underpinning failure, misallocation and executive excess. As this discourages the... ...