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.
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
It took 36 years to confirm that Nixon lied. Do we have to wait another 36 years to find out whether the Bush administration lied to us too?
Posted on Nov 18, 2005
We know now that George W. Bush is not trainable. What we see is what we get -- and that's exactly what we're going to get for three more years unless we stop him.
Posted on Nov 15, 2005
In the French riots, it's poor immigrants making all the noise. Here, it will be American workers who had a taste of middle-class life, only to have it snatched away.
Posted on Nov 9, 2005
Bush's record of handling actual crises hardly inspires confidence, which is why his big plan to fight avian flu is just one more cause for worry.
Posted on Nov 3, 2005
Another generation of American kids are dying and being maimed for life because someone in high office lied and then covered it up -- or, in this case,
tried to cover it up.
Posted on Nov 1, 2005
Legal experts are already debating whether the Wilsons have a case. These are the same experts who thought Jones' case was going nowhere in court -- instead of leading to Clinton's impeachment.
Posted on Oct 29, 2005
Karl Rove may have more to worry about than prosecutor Fitzgerald, when even the most loyal members of Bush's clan get axed when they become a liability.
Posted on Oct 28, 2005
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