Obama's Big Sellout (Matt Taibbi)

The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway Dec. 9, 2009 (Rolling Stone) -- Barack Obama ran for president as a man of ...

Liberals Are Useless (Chris Hedges)

A woman in Germany selects a candy box with President Barack Obama’s face on it. Credit: AP / Jens Meyer Dec. 7, 2009 (TruthDig) -- Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to ...

Goldman/AIG Conspiracy Theories: There’s a Reason They Won’t Go Away (Thomas Adams)

Note: this post is by Thomas Adams, at Paykin Krieg and Adams, LLP, and a former managing director at Ambac and FGIC, with some minor additions by yours truly. This is a significant piece of some puz ...

Still Doing God’s Work on Wall Street (Robert Sheer)

Nov. 25, 2009 (TruthDig) -- Jail, anyone? Perhaps that’s too harsh, and at any rate premature, but is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed t ...

Fifty-Five Real Things To Worry About, If You Must (Kathy McMahon)

Nov. 27, 2009 (Peak Oil Blues) -- Peak Oil, Climate change and the Greater Depression will pose many challenges to our way of life but let’s get real, for a moment: Golden Hordes aren’t one of them. ...

The Oceans are Coming (Keith Farnish and Dmitry Orlov)

Oct. 18, 2009 -- This article is the first part of a three-part series, which considers the effect of global warming on ocean level rise, and examines life with constantly advancing seas from two per ...

Do Businesses Hate Their Workers? (Income Disparity Myths Edition) (Yves Smith)

Nov. 10, 2009 (Naked Capitalism) -- In America, it isn’t hard to answer the question in the headline “yes.” The oft recited, “Our employees are our greatest asset” is pure Orwellian prattle; most com ...

Obama's Real Death Panels (Ted Rall)

Oct. 27, 2009 -- NEW YORK (uExpress) -- Shortly after 9/11, George W. Bush secretly signed two executive orders. Both violated basic constitutional protections as well as U.S. obligations under intern ...

An interview with Stoneleigh - The case for deflation (Ilargi)

Dorothea Lange Family Travel June 1938. Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, bound for Krebs. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County. ...

Take America back from the banks (Dean Baker)

Reining in the financial industry's power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought Oct. 12, 2009 (Guardian) -- The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large nu ...

Afghanistan - The Proxy War (Andrew J. Bacevich)

Oct. 12, 2009 (Boston Globe) -- No serious person thinks that Afghanistan - remote, impoverished, barely qualifying as a nation-state - seriously matters to the United States. Yet with the war in its ...