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.
Posted on Apr 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The right fears nothing more than unionized workers, and found a cunning way to scapegoat workers to derail a campaign to organize the TSA.
Posted on Apr 23, 2011, Source: The Nation
Before the landmark Citizens' United ruling, the kind of corporate propaganda Koch Industries is using wouldn't have been legal.
Posted on Jan 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The DC-Wall Street power circuit, with a big assist from the corporate media, is blindly pushing an agenda that could lead to massive social upheaval.
Posted on Nov 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
She's got billions, but Whitman has yet to perform a single significant charitable deed for the Golden State.
Posted on Oct 31, 2010, Source: eXiled Online
In the depths of America's decline, Liberals couldn't muster up a get-together for anything better than a mock-in meant to prove we're less stupid than the other side.
Posted on Oct 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Former CEO Whitman's record of gross incompetence, massive waste and personal enrichment is breathtaking. That the media isn't talking about it is incredible.
Posted on Jun 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Exposing how the Tea Party evolved out of the pro-offshore drilling astroturf movement in 2008, and the Koch billionaires' role in backing it.
Posted on Jun 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they've plundered at a safe distance.
Posted on May 21, 2010, Source: AlterNet
We're ruled over by people who despise us and think of us as prey and themselves as hyenas, busy devouring everything they can.
Posted on Apr 29, 2010, Source: eXiled Online
Fraud has become so endemic in this country that it's woven its way into America’s DNA.
Posted on Feb 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Her works are treated as gospel by right-wing powerhouses like Alan Greenspan and Clarence Thomas, but Ayn Rand found early inspiration in 1920's murderer William Hickman.
Posted on Feb 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet
There's a dangerous right-wing alignment in the making; race-baiters proposing 'civics literacy tests' and elite free market ideologues who see democracy as inefficient.
Posted on Jan 15, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Tim Geithner has a long history of caving to moral pressures and smoothing over colossal failures. But his personality is much like Obama. Maybe that's how he keeps his job.
Posted on Jan 9, 2010, Source: AlterNet
How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors, and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill.
Posted on Nov 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
That Maj. Hasan tried to get a military discharge before the massacre is largely being erased -- we're supposed to keep focusing on the Muslim part.
Posted on Nov 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
That alleged killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim is not enough to explain the attacks.
Posted on Oct 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala.
Posted on Oct 8, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
American billionaires keep cooking up scheme after scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the national wealth, as if the last one was too easy and boring.
Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Baldasci's shooting opens a window into Fresno, Calif.'s climate of soaring unemployment, scheming agribusiness oligarchs and Sean Hannity-inspired right-wing rage.
Posted on Sep 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It sounds too gruesome to be true, but the bankers have already shaken the silver out of everything that had value in America -- except for the elderly.
Posted on Sep 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Obama is doubling down in Afghanistan with more troops deployed now than the Soviets ever had, at a time when public support for it is sinking like a rock.
Posted on Aug 25, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
If you judge a person by the company they keep, then Obama's top economic advisor has some serious splainin' to do.
Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
This is a battle against people who want to protect a system that has killed more Americans than WW II -- not a debate tournament.
Posted on Aug 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The "libertarian" Atlantic Monthly writer rails against public health care, yet her family trusted government enough to make them rich.
Posted on May 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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 15, 2009, Source: The Nation
The Washington Post's editorial page is busy whitewashing Bush's disastrous wars, which the newspaper encouraged all along.
Posted on May 2, 2009, Source: Playboy.com
They chicken out at the last minute. Recounting the doomed bus tour of AIG executives' posh homes in Connecticut.
Posted on Apr 23, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
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 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The tea parties are AstroTurf -- fake grassroots. But there is a real movement growing against corporate greed and government malfeasance.
Posted on Mar 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
If you keep squeezing workers to fatten filthy-rich executives' already-obscene bonuses, there can be very violent consequences.
Posted on Mar 3, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
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 Feb 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Republicans are censoring their own anti-New Deal logic.
Posted on Jan 14, 2009, Source: The Nation
After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs?
Posted on Jan 1, 2009, Source: The Nation
Deconstructing Russia coverage on the Washington Post editorial page.
Posted on Dec 13, 2008, Source: Radar
The war in Georgia will be remembered as the place where the American Empire fell on its face.
Posted on Nov 12, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
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 7, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility" and its pitchfork-wielding audience.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008, Source: The Nation
Deconstructing the NYT fairy tale of the poor innocent small democracy of Georgia attacked by a cruel Cold War Russian monster.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: The Nation
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 Sep 21, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
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.
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