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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.

How Is it that the Wall Street Journal Editors Have Absolutely No Memory of the Last 8 Years?

They are blaming Obama for spending, after Bush's accomplishments: a crippled economy, two failed wars and environmental crisis?
Posted on May 7, 2009, Source: News for Real

For 8 Years, George Bush Turned America Into an Episode of Beverly Hills, 90210

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 22, 2009, Source: News for Real

Pissed Off at the Corporate Banking Industry? Here's an Easy Way You Can Hurt Them

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 Apr 1, 2009, Source: News for Real

The Wall Street Criminals Are Still Running Free, Stealing Billions

Why are the very people whose actions ignited a worldwide depression still sitting pretty, at least compared to their victims?
Posted on Mar 6, 2009, Source: News for Real

Rumsfeld Knew His Guys Were Torturing People to Death, Which Is a Serious Crime

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 Feb 13, 2009, Source: News for Real

The Inauguration Beer Goggles Are Coming Off and Our Ugly Economic Problems Are Still Here

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 Jan 24, 2009, Source: News for Real

Why I'm Rooting for 3 Big Economic Bubbles

We need a healthcare bubble, an infrastructure bubble and a green bubble right now -- or else the whole thing will pop.
Posted on Dec 26, 2008, Source: News for Real

We Paid What for That Virtual Border Fence?

The government scraps an expensive prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" -- a multimillion-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
Posted on Apr 26, 2008, Source: News for Real

Hillary Clinton's Campaign IEDs (Insinuations, Exaggerations and Distortions)

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 Mar 17, 2008, Source: News for Real

The Scandal That Nearly Destroyed John McCain

Long before the Iseman controversy, John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal nearly ruined his Senate career.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008, Source: News for Real

20 Annoying Things About 2007

Whew, has this been an irritating year, or what!
Posted on Jan 1, 2008, Source: News for Real

Vulnerable Helicopters Should Accelerate Iraq Exit

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 Feb 9, 2007, Source: News for Real

Don't Fall for Bush's Immigration Scam

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 Jan 31, 2007, Source: News for Real

Iraq Doesn't Need Any More Heavy Weapons

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 Dec 8, 2006, Source: News for Real

Incoming Missiles? Duck and Cover

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 Jul 6, 2006, Source: News for Real

Fill 'er Up -- With Food

Is turning food into fuel as millions starve to death really the ethical answer to our oil addiction?
Posted on Jun 24, 2006, Source: News for Real

Cut-and-Run Liberal, and Proud of It

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 21, 2006, Source: News for Real

Sixteen Bold Moves We Can Use

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 19, 2006, Source: News for Real

Congress Snivels While Bush Breaks Laws

Bush's propensity for wishy-washy 'signing statements' makes congressional legislation look disposable. Why aren't Congress members crying foul?
Posted on Jun 9, 2006, Source: News for Real

The Clownification of America

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 31, 2006, Source: News for Real

Will the Real U.S. Government Please Stand Up?

Are they the all-knowing Big Brother government? Or are they really the bumbling Maxwell Smart, last-to-know-anything government?
Posted on May 23, 2006, Source: News for Real

One Final GOP Rip-Off Before November

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 12, 2006, Source: News for Real

Investigate Big Dick

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 3, 2006, Source: News for Real

Campaign Finance Reform, NASCAR-style

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 May 1, 2006, Source: News for Real

Forrest Gump's Evil Twin

America at large is starting to realize -- finally -- that President Bush is exactly as stupid as he looks, sounds and acts.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006, Source: News for Real

Permission to Speak Freely, Sir

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 14, 2006, Source: News for Real

Fall of the Ring Bearers

Megaplayers like Tom DeLay will always grab for the ring of power -- and in the end, that power will destroy them.
Posted on Apr 5, 2006, Source: News for Real

All the 'Good News' From Iraq

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 25, 2006, Source: News for Real

Orwell's Internal Revenue Service

The IRS's proposed rule change will allow tax preparers to sell -- uh, 'safeguard' -- your data.
Posted on Mar 22, 2006, Source: News for Real

A Fool's Economic Paradise

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 27, 2006, Source: News for Real

Who's Counting Bush's Mistakes?

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 Feb 20, 2006, Source: News for Real

The Return of Bush's Brownshirts

The corrupt Republicans who took office on a mandate of fighting corruption have launched yet another dirty smear campaign.
Posted on Jan 19, 2006, Source: News for Real

Indian Gaming: More Corrupt Than Ever

While Democrats saw Indian gaming as supporting another downtrodden minority, the GOP saw it like the mob did: as a cash cow.
Posted on Jan 10, 2006, Source: News for Real

Spying and Torture: Don't Go There

If Bush wants to know where domestic spying leads, he should read some of the millions of files the East German Stasi compiled on its own citizens.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, Source: News for Real

The 'Retreat and Defeat' Dems

Maybe we need a new party, since the party that claims to support us has given up any pretense at actual opposition to Bush's war or anything else.
Posted on Dec 14, 2005, Source: News for Real

Don't Buy the B.S.

Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Energy are trying hard to convince us they really do care. And they do -- they care about keeping things exactly the way they are.
Posted on Dec 8, 2005, Source: News for Real

Donald Rumsfeld Is Mad As a Hatter

We now have a certifiable loon in charge of the most powerful military on the face of the earth. Shouldn't someone do something?
Posted on Dec 6, 2005, Source: News for Real

The GOP's Culture of Corruption

Only now is the general public starting to learn how corruption swept through the GOP after the party's rise to majority status in the '90s. But it didn't happen suddenly.
Posted on Nov 30, 2005, Source: News for Real

A Failed Presidency?

Instead of focusing on this administration's screw-up du jour, isn't it time for the mainstream media to start taking real account of the messes Bush has created already?
Posted on Nov 23, 2005, Source: News for Real

Dems, It's Now or Never

We must engage with Democrats now to help win control of the House and Senate in 2006's mid-term elections.
Posted on Nov 22, 2005, Source: News for Real

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