Stories by Mark Ames
Read more of Mark Ames at eXiledonline.com. He is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond.
Why did Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley steer millions to a company Larry Summers directed while he administered "stress tests" on them?
Posted on May 29, 2009
The Washington Post's editorial page is busy whitewashing Bush's disastrous wars, which the newspaper encouraged all along.
Posted on May 15, 2009
They chicken out at the last minute. Recounting the doomed bus tour of AIG executives' posh homes in Connecticut.
Posted on May 2, 2009
Why does Larry Kudlow still have a job? He's gotten everything wrong, and his irrational anti-Obama rants are truly borderline.
Posted on Apr 23, 2009
The tea parties are AstroTurf -- fake grassroots. But there is a real movement growing against corporate greed and government malfeasance.
Posted on Apr 15, 2009
If you keep squeezing workers to fatten filthy-rich executives' already-obscene bonuses, there can be very violent consequences.
Posted on Mar 13, 2009
Debate heats up: How much are Rick Santelli and the Tea Party protests he inspired part of a project orchestrated by right-wing groups?
Posted on Mar 3, 2009
The Republicans are censoring their own anti-New Deal logic.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009
After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs?
Posted on Jan 14, 2009
Deconstructing Russia coverage on the Washington Post editorial page.
Posted on Jan 1, 2009
The war in Georgia will be remembered as the place where the American Empire fell on its face.
Posted on Dec 13, 2008
In light of all of the corruption and cronyism that have marked the career of Lawrence Summers, why is Obama considering him for treasury secretary?
Posted on Nov 12, 2008
A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility" and its pitchfork-wielding audience.
Posted on Nov 7, 2008
Deconstructing the NYT fairy tale of the poor innocent small democracy of Georgia attacked by a cruel Cold War Russian monster.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008
He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's advisers have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions and made good money on the side.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008
John McCain's critical of the bailout of AIG. But it turns out the insurance giant is one of the largest donors to his pet think tank.
Posted on Sep 21, 2008
The war between Russia and Georgia has been framed as a tale of David versus Goliath. But it's far more complex than this, morally and historically.
Posted on Aug 16, 2008
Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America.
Posted on Feb 16, 2008
Stupefied by the excitement over the Democratic contest, an American expat asks us, "What's gotten into you people?"
Posted on Feb 1, 2008
By hyping the so-called first massive cyberstrike by a superpower on a tiny, defenseless neighbor, the Western media have played into a sleazy Estonian PR stunt, designed to deflect the world's attention from the country's mistreatment of its Russian-speaking minority.
Posted on Jun 2, 2007
Media: Cho Seung-Hui did it because he was crazy and "evil." History: Schoolyard massacres are rebellions against oppressive and bullying environments by students who can't take it anymore.
Posted on Apr 20, 2007
Nothing could make America's decline as a global power more embarrassing for the national psyche than the fact that Russia is on the rise -- and USA's patriotic press going bezerk in the process.
Posted on Sep 29, 2006
More than a quarter of working Americans won't take time off, while Europeans enjoy two months of holiday. Did the Reagan revolution make us forget how to relax?
Posted on Sep 8, 2006
A disgruntled and bullied Safeway employee is the latest to commit a workplace massacre. The press and co-workers are blaming the attacker -- but the real culprit is a corporate culture gone bad.
Posted on Jul 31, 2006
Cheney's brazen oil grab strategy in Central Asia has launched a new Cold War with Russia -- and this time we're losing.
Posted on Jun 1, 2006
Western countries are shrieking about Vladimir Putin's crackdown on foreign NGOs, but in the case of Freedom House, it is an act of self-defense.
Posted on Jan 13, 2006
The first rage killing in an American post office wasn't the work of a psychopath, but a man who was abused by his employer and couldn't take it anymore.
Posted on Oct 3, 2005
It wasn't Marilyn Manson or lax gun control laws that prompted Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to open fire at Columbine High School. It was life at Columbine.
Posted on Oct 3, 2005
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Nightline interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev is consistent with the Pentagon's 'accidental' bombings of three Al Jazeera bureaus -- and proof that U.S. government uses the media for foreign policy.
Posted on Aug 11, 2005
America has been at war with Russia for nearly two decades; a grossly one-sided war in which the U.S. is quietly conquering more and more territory with the kind of tireless efficiency not seen since the days of the Golden Horde.
Posted on Jun 29, 2005
