Sunday, 14 June 2009

How The Spooks Took Over the News

By Nick Davies

Shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale. Continue


America's Socialism For the Rich

By Joseph Stiglitz 

The US has a huge corporate safety net, allowing the banks to gamble with impunity, but offers little to struggling individuals. 
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US says no recovery, ‘too early’ to cut stimulus: “I don’t think we’re at the point yet where we can say we have a recovery in place,” Geithner said following two days of talks between the G8 finance ministers in Lecce in southern Italy.

Senators held stock in bailed-out banks: According to the reports detailing senators’ finances in 2008, nearly half of the members of the Senate Banking Committee had holdings in financial institutions that have taken funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).