PORTUGAL: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AUSTERITY DOESN’T WORK… (New York Times) Greece is in flames, with hundreds of thousands of citizens taking to the streets and clashing with authorities over more mandated austerity measures that bankers and financiers claim are a vital step on the path to economic recovery for Europe. Greece is in bad shape, [...]
The federal government’s case against banks for duplicitous and potentially illegal mortgage practices may be reaching an unsatisfactory final settlement even as one of the largest perpetrators of foreclosure fraud takes outrageous steps to block further investigation into their actions at the height of the housing crisis. Tens of millions of homeowners remain “underwater,” owing [...]
FIDEL CASTRO: LOOKING INTO THE ABYSS. (Global Research) The former head of the Cuban government, still ostracized as a “dictator” by world governments and media, pens for Global Research a message for the year 2012, the year of the 50th anniversary of the October 1962 revolution that swept his movement into power. The 85-year-old Castro [...]
House padlocked? Pet bird kidnapped? Threatening letters arriving in the mail for no apparent reason? Be careful, because America’s biggest bank is also its biggest perpetrator of fraudulent foreclosures, and it may be coming after you… Bank of America, already neck-deep in litigation and fallout from rampant fraud and mistakes relating to its booming post-recession foreclosure business, has another [...]
CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT OBAMA CREATE LEGAL PROTECTION FOR THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS: HAPPY NEW YEAR, AMERICA! (Huffington Post) Hear that sound? “Riiiiip…” Yep; it’s our United States Constitution being shredded by Congress with passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, a piece of legislation that gives the government unprecedented legal authority and protection [...]
“GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO” THROWS A SHAFT OF LIGHT ON THE “BANALITY OF EVIL” IN SWEDEN. (Counterpunch) The recently-released movie features a graphic depiction of torture and rape by police agents in the “liberal” country. A U.S. investigative journalist living in Sweden, Ritt Goldstein, uses the movie’s theme to comment on what seems to [...]
AS WORLD PRAYS FOR PEACE ON EARTH, PENTAGON PREPARES FOR FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE OF THAT EARTH (Global Research) Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham, for Global Research, review the history across presidential administrations from Truman to Obama, and embracing the leadership of both major U.S. parties of an agenda of promoting what George H.W. Bush called [...]
CRISIS IN PAKISTAN: “THEY DEMONSTRATE COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN LIFE, AND ARE IN STARK VIOLATION OF PAKISTANI SOVEREIGNTY.” The already-crumbling relationship between the United States government and Pakistan was dealt a new blow over the weekend when 25 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an air strike launched by US forces. It was [...]
“THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT PEOPLE LIKE WARREN BUFFETT PAY AT A 17 PERCENT RATE, IT’S THAT THEY CAN USE COMPLEX TRANSACTIONS NOT AVAILABLE TO MOST AMERICANS TO GET CASH FROM THEIR APPRECIATED STOCK WITHOUT PAYING ANY TAXES AT ALL.“ That America’s wealthiest taxpayers enjoy their lowest tax rates in decades is only a fraction [...]
“MAKING EVIL ACTS SEEM ENTERTAINING.” (Black Agenda Report) This is Margaret Kimberley’s view of the “mission accomplished” Veterans Day appearance by President Obama on the U.S.S. Vinson, the ship used to carry the body of Osama bin Laden to its summary burial at sea. His appearance coincides with the news that several NCAA basketball games [...]
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