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.
They are blaming Obama for spending, after Bush's accomplishments: a crippled economy, two failed wars and environmental crisis?
Posted on May 7, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
The government scraps an expensive prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" -- a multimillion-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
Posted on Apr 26, 2008
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
Long before the Iseman controversy, John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal nearly ruined his Senate career.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008
Whew, has this been an irritating year, or what!
Posted on Jan 1, 2008
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
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
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
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
Is turning food into fuel as millions starve to death really the ethical answer to our oil addiction?
Posted on Jun 24, 2006
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The IRS's proposed rule change will allow tax preparers to sell -- uh, 'safeguard' -- your data.
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
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
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
The corrupt Republicans who took office on a mandate of fighting corruption have launched yet another dirty smear campaign.
Posted on Jan 19, 2006
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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