Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)

Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, wh ...

BOOKS: Empire for Liberty. By Richard H. Immerman (Jim Miles)

Empire for Liberty. Richard H. Immerman. Princeton University Press, 2010. Oct. 15, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- History takes on an interesting life when written as well as Richard Immerman’s new b ...

Wells Fargo: No halt to foreclosures (Mark Calvey)

Oct. 8, 2010 (San Francisco Business Times) -- Wells Fargo said Friday it has no plans to adopt a foreclosure moratorium despite Bank of America’s decision today to halt all foreclosures. “Wells Farg ...

Government had Been Warned for Months about Troubles in Mortgage Servicer Industry (Zachary A. Goldfarb)

Oct. 10, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, o ...

Boiler Rooms, Foreclosure Mills: The Story of America’s Mortgage Industry (Michael Hudson)

Oct. 8, 2010 (Center For Public Integrity) -- The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents, false affidavits and “rocket do ...

Mortgage-Title Fraud: A National Catastrophe (Jeff Nielson)

Jeff Neilson Oct. 8, 2010 (Seeking Alpha) -- It is impossible to overstate the severity of the real estate crisis in the United States which has been caused entirely by the reckless fraud of the nati ...

BofA Extends Freeze on Foreclosures to All 50 States (Michael J. Moore and Lorraine Woellert)

Oct. 6, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. lender, extended a freeze on foreclosures to all 50 states as concern spread among federal and local officials that homes are being ...

One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)

Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, a ...

US Top Court Refuses to Hear Guantanamo Wiretap Case (Agence France Presse)

A member of the US military mans the guard post before sunrise at Camp Delta. (AFP) Oct. 4, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a plea by 23 lawyer ...

War (on drugs) is over (John Sinclair)

Sept. 29, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Detroit Metro Times) -- Highest greetings from Amsterdam. My name is John Sinclair and I've been a marijuana legalization activist ever since I founded Detroit LEMAR (LEg ...

The Triumph of Evil (Prof. John Kozy)

Above painting by Claudia Markovich at ClaudiaM.com Sept. 3, 2010 (Global Research) -- Modern societies have justified their adoption of criminal activities by claiming that such techniques are neces ...