Stories by Stephen Pizzo
Stephen Pizzo is the author of numerous books, including Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, which was nominated for a Pulitzer.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012, Source: Smirking Chimp
Even though anti-trust laws say cable companies can't coordinate their business plans, they do.
Posted on Sep 25, 2011, Source: The Smirking Chimp
Tea Party simpletons wrap themselves in prideful ignorance, and treat matters of life and death, like global warming, with dismissive derision.
Posted on Mar 25, 2011, Source: BuzzFlash
It's reached epidemic levels in government. Isn't wanton ignorance among those we trust with nuclear policies, war, famine, jobs, the national debt and more, a concern?
Posted on Aug 17, 2010, Source: News for Real
When Obama asks General Petraeus how things are going in Afghanistan, he responds, "we are making solid progress, Mr.President."
Posted on May 19, 2010, Source: News for Real
Halliburton's failed cementing job likely led to oil blowout in the Gulf -- but there's no mess big enough to take the shine off these tumor-like companies.
Posted on Mar 10, 2010, Source: News for Real
We've gotta stop doing business with the enemy.
Posted on Mar 9, 2010, Source: News for Real
If the government can't protect people from would-be enemies AND provide basic social services, those leaders are in defacto default of their social contract with their own people.
Posted on Feb 21, 2010, Source: News for Real
Mr. President, take it from an ex-Marine: 'There is no fair fight. There is only the fight you win, or the fight you lose.'
Posted on May 7, 2009, Source: News for Real
They are blaming Obama for spending, after Bush's accomplishments: a crippled economy, two failed wars and environmental crisis?
Posted on Apr 22, 2009, Source: News for Real
In George W. Bush's America High, it was decided that the best way to deal with countries they decided were NOT cool, was to not talk to them.
Posted on Apr 1, 2009, Source: News for Real
We need to force the administration to do to these tumorlike institutions what they just did to GM. Moving our checking accounts will do the trick.
Posted on Mar 6, 2009, Source: News for Real
Why are the very people whose actions ignited a worldwide depression still sitting pretty, at least compared to their victims?
Posted on Feb 13, 2009, Source: News for Real
71% of Americans want to see Bush investigated, and it's about time Obama's team hightailed their way over to court to start doing it.
Posted on Jan 24, 2009, Source: News for Real
Progressives have been dry for so long that all that Obama bubbly went straight to our heads. But Obama or not, we're in for tough times.
Posted on Dec 26, 2008, Source: News for Real
We need a healthcare bubble, an infrastructure bubble and a green bubble right now -- or else the whole thing will pop.
Posted on Apr 26, 2008, Source: News for Real
The government scraps an expensive prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" -- a multimillion-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
Posted on Mar 17, 2008, Source: News for Real
The Clintons have built their entire political lives on the premise that if they can't win pretty, they'll settle for winning ugly.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008, Source: News for Real
Long before the Iseman controversy, John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal nearly ruined his Senate career.
Posted on Jan 1, 2008, Source: News for Real
Whew, has this been an irritating year, or what!
Posted on Feb 9, 2007, Source: News for Real
With the fifth helicopter shot down by Iraqi insurgents in three weeks, Congress must explain to the American people why they should make the sacrifice for more of our soldiers to be killed in those "flying coffins."
Posted on Jan 31, 2007, Source: News for Real
Pizzo argues that liberals are flummoxed by the issue of immigration and losing ground by being overly politically correct. He says our focus should be on common-sense regulations and enforcement.
Posted on Dec 8, 2006, Source: News for Real
The Baker-Hamilton report proposes to "beef up Iraqi military" with billions in new hardware -- the absolute last thing the war-torn country needs.
Posted on Jul 6, 2006, Source: News for Real
Hours after North Korea pushed the launch buttons, our commander in chief still had only the foggiest idea what was heading our way.
Posted on Jun 24, 2006, Source: News for Real
Is turning food into fuel as millions starve to death really the ethical answer to our oil addiction?
Posted on Jun 21, 2006, Source: News for Real
Karl Rove is right when he calls us 'cut-and-run liberals.' As you will see, the list of things we want to cut and run from is a long one.
Posted on Jun 19, 2006, Source: News for Real
America is starved for leaders with the audacity to take genuinely bold action. To help out, I've compiled a list of brave ideas we could desperately use now.
Posted on Jun 9, 2006, Source: News for Real
Bush's propensity for wishy-washy 'signing statements' makes congressional legislation look disposable. Why aren't Congress members crying foul?
Posted on May 31, 2006, Source: News for Real
Unless the loser on 'American Idol' pulls a gun and opens fire, that show belongs in the entertainment section and not on my front page.
Posted on May 23, 2006, Source: News for Real
Are they the all-knowing Big Brother government? Or are they really the bumbling Maxwell Smart, last-to-know-anything government?
Posted on May 12, 2006, Source: News for Real
The GOP knows their gig will be up in November, but that won't stop them from one final rush to top off their overflowing accounts with taxpayers' money.
Posted on May 3, 2006, Source: News for Real
Did Cheney and oil company execs lick their chops over Iraqi oil less than two years before we invaded Iraq? Shouldn't someone find out?
Posted on May 1, 2006, Source: News for Real
If we could slap corporate logos on politicians, like NASCAR drivers do with their cars, we could get to the bottom of where they really stand on the issues.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006, Source: News for Real
America at large is starting to realize -- finally -- that President Bush is exactly as stupid as he looks, sounds and acts.
Posted on Apr 14, 2006, Source: News for Real
Those who have never served in the military don't understand how extraordinary it is for career military officers to say the things they're saying.
Posted on Apr 5, 2006, Source: News for Real
Megaplayers like Tom DeLay will always grab for the ring of power -- and in the end, that power will destroy them.
Posted on Mar 25, 2006, Source: News for Real
For once, the president gave some solid advice on Iraq: If you want to know the truth about the war, read the internet. But the truth isn't as pretty as he hopes.
Posted on Mar 22, 2006, Source: News for Real
The IRS's proposed rule change will allow tax preparers to sell -- uh, 'safeguard' -- your data.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006, Source: News for Real
Bushonomics has been the most destructive set of economic policies to hit Americans since Herbert Hoover. No, wait. That understates the problem.
Posted on Feb 20, 2006, Source: News for Real
Given how ambitious and wide-ranging the incompetence of this administration has been, it's high time we started keeping track of its many failures.
Posted on Jan 19, 2006, Source: News for Real
The corrupt Republicans who took office on a mandate of fighting corruption have launched yet another dirty smear campaign.
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