Naomi Klein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2009. On the anniversary of the Seattle protests, anger mounts at collusion between corporations and governments. Perhaps our movement's time has come.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 12, 2009. The latest job numbers mock the smiley-faced claims of economists and polticos that the Great Recession is over.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. If the economic crisis taught us anything, it's that bringing to heel the whiz kids of finance is a top priority.
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."
Les Leopold, AlterNet. October 22, 2009. We force very low income single moms to jump through hoops to get their welfare checks, but we let Wall Street's welfare kings walk all over us.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 20, 2009. Welcome to post-meltdown America. One year and counting after last fall’s high-finance collapse, average Americans are reeling and Wall Street is rejoicing.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. October 12, 2009. Moyers interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a hero of Michael Moore's latest documentary, and former IMF head Simon Johnson on Wall Street's purchase of our democracy.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. October 2, 2009. The bankers who brought us the disaster of 2008 have created a new financial instrument called "life settlements" -- call it morbid capitalism.
Les Leopold, Huffington Post. September 30, 2009. The manufacturing sector accounts for fewer and fewer jobs each year, so why should we give a damn about it?
Arun Gupta, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009. Sorry, it's not over yet. This downturn will be severe and long-lasting, and profoundly re-shape our lives, culture, society and the world.
Nomi Prins, Wiley Press. September 29, 2009. To hear it from the big financial companies, the big crash started when poor people bought homes they couldn't afford. But that was at most 1% of the problem.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, September 25, 2009. Over a year ago, we suffered the most significant financial collapse since the Great Depression, and the result of that is massive unemployment and underemployment.
Naomi Klein, The Nation. September 25, 2009. Moore discusses his new documentary film, widely praised as a call for a revolt against capitalist madness.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 22, 2009. The Baucus proposal includes a tax intended to dupe the public into thinking it soaks the rich. In truth, it would stick it to millions in the middle class.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, September 18, 2009. Just the other day, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said "it is very likely that the recession has ended."
Nomi Prins, Mother Jones. September 16, 2009. Obama claims that govt. funding of the banking system saved the economy, but without reform he is playing an expensive and dangerous game.
Zaid Jilani, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009. Boortz used his Twitter account this morning to compare the President's visit to Wall Street to "sending a child molester to speak to a kindergarten class."
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. September 14, 2009. The Federal Reserve so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for economists.
Xan Brooks, The Guardian. September 9, 2009. Moore's latest documentary drew tumultuous applause at the Venice film festival, suggesting that the veteran tub-thumper has lost none of his power to whip up a response.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: World. August 10, 2009. I hope you’ll join me for my new show, Senator Sanders Unfiltered produced by Brave New Films. Follow my show on Twitter at SandersShow.
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. July 31, 2009. The winner of this month's Most Retarded Horsesh** Written In Defense of Goldman Sachs award goes to ... Heidi Moore.
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Pam Martens, CounterPunch. July 21, 2009. The National Arbitration Forum isn't impartial -- it's financially shackled to debt collection law firms representing major credit card companies.
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. July 17, 2009. That Goldman Sachs is getting away with robbery is bad enough -- that they're getting praised for being so smart is damn near intolerable.
Agence France Presse July 17, 2009. Revenues rose 60 percent from a year ago to 33.1 billion dollars, lifted in part by the acquisition of Wall Street brokerage Merrill Lynch.
