Wednesday, 20 June 2012


By RT

President Obama once more departed from his campaign promise of a transparent presidency by granting executive privilege on behalf of Holder early Wednesday to keep Congress from obtaining documents involved in the gunwalking scheme. Continue


By Spencer Ackerman

The government has left a long, twisted trail of pretzel logic when it comes to all of the reasons you can’t know what it’s doing. Here are some of the lowlights. Continue


By George Monbiot

These summits have failed for the same reason that the banks have failed. Political systems that were supposed to represent everyone now return governments of millionaires, financed by and acting on behalf of billionaires. Continue


By Mike Whitney 

The Greek electorate has changed captains on the Titanic, but the ship is still sinking. So what difference did the elections make? None. Continue


By Ellen Brown 

JPMorgan Chase is the biggest campaign donor to many of the members of the Banking Committee. Continue


By Jim Hightower

In a nation of 313 million people and an electorate of 217 million, fewer than a hundred uber-wealthy individuals and corporations (a tiny fraction of a fraction of even the 1 percent) shaped the GOP presidential debate and nomination to their personal benefit. Continue


By Peter Edelman 

Half of U.S. jobs now pay $34,000 or less a year. A quarter of U.S. jobs pay less than $22,000, the poverty line for a family of four. Continue



How does Walmart keep its prices so low? : - Video - A look inside the C.J.'s Seafood plant in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where guestworkers on H-2B visas have been subjected to forced labor, threats against themselves and their families, constant surveillance, wage theft, and discrimination -- from which Walmart has profited.


The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness

By Nigel Farage 


"By any objective criteria the Euro has failed, and in fact there is a looming, impending disaster." Continue