Given that the U.S. is a major arms seller to Greece, Clinton will encourage the Greeks to slash workers’ wages and pensions, but not its enormous military appetite.
These aren't nice folks; their collective rap sheet includes fraud, sex discrimination, collusion to bribe public officials... even laundering drug money for Mexican drug cartels.
Unemployment is dismal, housing prices have fallen for four months in a row, but Obama's former budget director is having no problems cleaning up on Wall St.
The Federal Reserve chief has recklessly bailed out our financial system -- we shouldn't wait the 10 years before his term expires to toss him overboard.
The simple act of removing all of our money from the banks, and doing so in mass on the same day - December 7th - would put a huge scare in the financial barons.
Jan Frel, Lawrence Goodwyn, AlterNet. October 30, 2010.
An interview with legendary historian Lawrence Goodwyn on Obama, the larger currents in our political life, and the possibility of a rebirth in our democratic culture.
An interview with finance watchdog Warren, who attacks the pernicious influence of bank lobbies, and worries about the debt-fueled threat to America’s middle class.
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: PEEK. January 23, 2010.
One of the lessons of Tuesday's election is that voters don't want to see their elected leaders capitulating to the very people who brought the economy down.
Bernanke's defeat would be a repudiation of President Obama's close alliance with Wall Street -- but it would be extremely salutary for him and for the public.
It's been 10 years since Washington repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, the moment we got royally screwed by the banking system -- and we're still paying the price.
Joshua Holland, Nomi Prins, AlterNet. October 30, 2009.
An interview with Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs, now a razor-sharp financial muckraker and author of the new book, "It Takes a Pillage."
