Stories by Mark Ames

Read more of Mark Ames at eXiledonline.com and Not Safe for Work Corporation. He is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond. subscribe to Mark Ames's feed

Why the Media and Power Establishment Prevented the Public from Understanding the Tsarnaev Bomber Brothers' Motives

Posted on: Jun 13, 2013, Source: Not Safe for Work Corporation

The Boston Bombers' ties to Chechnya and Dagestan must come to light if we're ever going to get to the bottom of "why" they did it.

Inside the Collapsing Media Empire of Deceased GOP Sleaze-Peddler Andrew Breitbart

Posted on: May 5, 2013, Source: Not Safe for Work Corporation

In the year after Breitbart's death, his heirs have produced a string of grotesque episodes that have embarrassed even their own impossible-to-shame allies on the right.

How Planet Money, This American Life and NPR Have Become Key Players in the Bankers’ Propaganda War on What's Left of Our Social Contract

Posted on: Apr 26, 2013, Source: Not Safe for Work Corporation

Welcome to what passes for the "liberal" media.

What Led Chris Dorner to Go Off the Edge: Workplace Abuse, Racism, and Unfair Firing

Posted on: Feb 21, 2013, Source: Not Safe for Work Corporation

The media as usual is looking at all the wrong clues to get to the bottom of what set Chris Dorner's rampage.

American Assassination History for Dummies

Posted on: Feb 20, 2013, Source: Not Safe for Work Corporation

The idea that President Obama’s extrajudicial drone-assassinations of American citizens is "unprecedented" and "radical" is to ignore decades of recent history.

Amazing Investigation: How a Real Life James Bond Got Whacked by a Bag Lady Assassin

Posted on: Dec 2, 2012, Source: Salon

New clues and a powerful Wall St. skeptic challenge the official story of a CIA financier's brutal murder.

Romney's Supposed 'Liberal Republican' Father Attacked Women's Rights Advocates as 'Moral Perverts'

Posted on: Oct 4, 2012, Source: Not Safe for Work Corporation

Former Gov. George Romney's forgotten past: Equal Rights Amendment campaign was a homosexual conspiracy.

Has NPR's Adam Davidson Betrayed His Listeners? Serious Conflict of Interest Issues Exposed

Posted on: Aug 9, 2012, Source: eXiled Online

Davidson is a shrewd propagandist with a long, consistent history of shilling for powerful interests—and failing to disclose his financial ties to the companies he reports on.

As Labor Struggles, Have the Big Rights and Liberties Groups Like the ACLU Deserted Unions?

Posted on: Jun 25, 2012, Source: The Daily Banter

While labor is under powerful battering from conservatives, a strong case can be made that they aren't being supported by some of our most prominent human rights groups.

What Happens If We Wake Up With a Mormon in the White House? What Joseph Smith's Run for President Suggests About Mitt Romney

Posted on: Jun 22, 2012, Source: Punch!

The truth about the man with 33 wives -- and what that tells us about Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

How Shameless Oligarchs Plunder Our World: From 1990s Russia to Present-Day Oklahoma

Posted on: May 28, 2012, Source: The Daily Banter

The ruthless pursuit of self-interest by the world's wealthy oligarchs utterly demolishes the public good.

The Super "Connected" 1% CEO: The Incredible Tale of Billions of Dollars of Failure

Posted on: May 21, 2012, Source: The Daily Banter

Citgroup's outgoing chairman Dick Parsons' career is the perfect example of how 1 percenters reward utter failure at the expense of the rest of us.

Murder, Suicide and Financial Ruin: How the Class War Is Destroying Americans' Lives

Posted on: Apr 17, 2012, Source: Consortium News

The financial fraudsters, the One Percenters, fleece the most vulnerable -- military families, minorities, low-income people -- to generate their fast riches.

The Making of a Rampage Murderer: What the Brutal Life of Oakland Shooter One L. Goh Says About America

Posted on: Apr 9, 2012, Source: Consortium News

The cruelty, predation and concentration of wealth today has sparked a new type of murder that has more in common with insurgency violence than serial murder.

America's Outrage Over TSA Naked Body Scanners Fits Right into Libertarian PR Project to Prevent Workers from Unionizing

Posted on: Apr 27, 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.

How the Koch Brothers Indoctrinate Their Employees with Right-Wing Anti-Worker Propaganda

Posted on: Apr 22, 2011, Source: The Nation

Before the landmark Citizens' United ruling, the kind of corporate propaganda Koch Industries is using wouldn't have been legal.

Stop the Austerity Craze! Massive Budget Slashing Can Lead to Economic Disaster, Violence and Repression

Posted on: Jan 24, 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.

8 Signs Meg Whitman May Lack a Human Heart

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.

Jon Stewart Rally: Just an Exercise in Gen X Self-Indulgence?

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.

How Meg Whitman Failed Her Way to the Top at eBay, Collecting Billions While Nearly Destroying the Company

Posted on: Oct 25, 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.

Tea Party Flacks Are Drill, Baby, Drill Messengers Too

Posted on: Jun 10, 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.

The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles

Posted on: Jun 1, 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.

Top Billionaire Hedge Funder Sees Himself As a Hyena Devouring Wildebeests

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.

10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud

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.

Ayn Rand, Hugely Popular Author and Inspiration to Right-Wing Leaders, Was a Big Admirer of Serial Killer

Posted on: Feb 25, 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.

Republicans at Highest Levels Really Want to Do Away with Democracy for All

Posted on: Feb 11, 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.

Do Obama and Geithner Have the Same Flaw: Accommodation Instead of Moral Action?

Posted on: Jan 14, 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.

Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions

Posted on: Jan 8, 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.

The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives

Posted on: Nov 22, 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.

Focusing on Fort Hood Killer's Beliefs Is an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre

Posted on: Nov 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet

That alleged killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim is not enough to explain the attacks.

After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally

Posted on: Oct 23, 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.

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $

Posted on: Oct 7, 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.

Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses and Economic Devastation Are Behind America's Latest Workplace Shooting

Posted on: Sep 27, 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.

"Death Bonds": Wall Street’s Shocking New Plan to Reap Billions off Dying Americans

Posted on: Sep 9, 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.

Obama Is Leading the U.S. Into a Hellish Quagmire

Posted on: Sep 2, 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.

Meet Larry Summers’s Ex-Boss, a Billionaire with a Blood Feud

Posted on: Aug 24, 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.

If Right-Wingers Get Their Way, 22,000 Americans Will Continue to Be Killed by Lack of Health Care Each Year

Posted on: Aug 12, 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.

Anti-Government Ideologue Megan McArdle's Amnesia About Her Privileged, Govt.-Funded Upbringing

Posted on: Aug 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The "libertarian" Atlantic Monthly writer rails against public health care, yet her family trusted government enough to make them rich.

Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From the Banks He's Bailing Out?

Posted on: May 28, 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?

Corruption Galore at the Washington Post

Posted on: May 14, 2009, Source: The Nation

The Washington Post's editorial page is busy whitewashing Bush's disastrous wars, which the newspaper encouraged all along.

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