Thursday, 19 May 2011


Debt Ceiling Breach 
Will Liberals Follow the Tea Party's Example? 

By Mike Whitney

Nearly every economist says the same thing. Congress is playing with dynamite. Continue


The People vs. Goldman Sachs
The Justice Department should bring criminal charges

By Matt Taibbi

They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it.Continue


One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street

By Robert Scheer 

The fix was in to let the Wall Street scoundrels off the hook for the enormous damage they caused in creating the Great Recession.... until last week when the attorney general of New York refused to go along. Continue


Strauss-Kahn Simply Had to be Eliminated. 
The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward

By Paul Craig Roberts

Strauss-Kahn, like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, was a threat to the system, and, like Eliot Spitzer, Strass-Kahn has been  deleted from the power ranks. Continue


Where the Bill of Rights Goes to Die

By Kevin Drum

So here's the story: police in Lexington, Kentucky, were chasing after some guy who'd just scored some crack. He went into an apartment building, but police didn't know what door he had gone into. So, smelling marijuana under one door, they pounded loudly and announced their presence. Continue


Highway Shakedowns
Tennessee Law Enforcement Stealing Money from Motorists

By Phil Williams


A major News Channel 5 investigation has uncovered serious questions about Tennessee's war on drugs. Among the questions: are some police agencies more concerned about making money off the drugs, than stopping them? Continue