The OTHER Reason that the U.S. is Not Regulating Wall Street (George Washington)

Feb. 7, 2010 (Naked Capitalism) -- Sure, American politicians have been bought and paid for by the Wall Street giants. See this, this and this. And everyone knows that the White House and Congress – ...

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows (David Reilly)

Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After ...

Howard Zinn -- 1922-2010 (Mr. Fish)

Wall Street Will Be Back For More (Chris Hedges)

Jan. 10, 2010 (TruthDig) -- Corporations, which control the levers of power in government and finance, promote and empower the psychologically maimed. Those who lack the capacity for empathy and who ...

The Other Plot to Wreck America (Frank Rich)

Frank Rich Jan. 9, 2010 (New York Times) -- There may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Chris ...

America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)

History repeating itself? President Obama has been accused by some economists of making the same mistakes policymakers in the US made in the Great Depression, which followed the Wall Street crash of ...

Bubble Warning (Economist)

Markets are too dependent on unsustainable government stimulus. Something’s got to give Jan. 7, 2010 (Economist) -- The effect of free money is remarkable. A year ago investors were panicking and the ...

The Year Ahead: 2010 (Glen Allport)

The Illusion of Normalcy Fades to Black Jan. 8, 2010 (Strike The Root) -- I wrote the first of these "Year Ahead" columns two years ago because I expected the coming collapse (described earlier in De ...

The True Meaning of 2012 (John Perkins)

Dec. 7, 2009 (Huffington Post) -- The movie 2012 has generated a tsunami of controversy over an ancient Mayan prophecy. We can thank Hollywood for stirring up our interest. Perhaps we needed a film l ...

The Battle for Tora Bora (Peter Bergen)

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Copenhagen Negotiators Bicker and Filibuster While the Biosphere Burns (George Monbiot)

George Monbiot despairs at the chaotic, disastrous denouement of a chaotic and disastrous climate summit Dec. 18, 2009 (Guardian) -- First they put the planet in square brackets, now they have delete ...