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Dennis Kucinich: My Battle With the Banks
Dennis Kucinich, Truthdig: "Once they were as gods, but the deities of the American banking system are now in ruins, plunged from their pedestals into the maw of taxpayer largesse. Congress voted to give... ...
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... ...
Dude, where’s my $700 billion?
Salon by Mike Madden 12/17/08 Oh, for those flush days of October. This won’t be news to anyone with a 401K or without a winning lottery ticket, but even though Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has burned... ...
The Looming Tragedy of Carbon Markets Paying to Destroy Ancient Forests
Light REDD: The Looming Tragedy of Carbon Markets Paying to Destroy Ancient Forests Using carbon funds, the world's governments are poised to subsidize ancient forest logging, claiming it benefits the... ...
The mystifying persistence of Dear Leader-ism
Our Future by David Sirota 12/05/08 Back in October, I wrote a column about how the economic pressure to compete against foreign autocracies was pushing our political system to subjugate democracy in... ...
7.7 Trillion Dollars And Counting
The Cost Of "Rescuing" The US Financial System By Hamilton Nolan US government has pledged more than $7.7 trillion of our tax dollars to "rescue" the financial system. How much is 7.7 trillion? http://www.info rmationclearinghouse.info/ article21311.htm... ...
The Reckoning: Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk
Eric Dash and Julie Creswell, The New York Times: "Even as the first shock waves of the subprime mortgage crisis hit Bear Stearns in June 2007, Citigroup's top executives expressed few concerns about their... ...
Bailing out the ruling class
The Partial Observer by James Leroy Wilson 11/13/08 [T]he bailout solution is attractive to the Political Class, because it increases their power over our lives. But their mismanagement can’t go on forever.... ...
The US Government Will Default On Its Debt
A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy By Amit R. Paley The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the... ...
Financing Poverty: Rescuing the Rich instead of the Poor
ISIS Press Release 03/11/08 Taxpayer's money is being misused in the global financial crisis to rescuing those that have grown super-rich by draining the real economy, creating poverty, and fuelling... ...