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Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis
Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. Faced with increasing difficulty in selling …
Our Weird and Wanton Wars
Many citizens in Britain are puzzled. Why do we always seem to be at war? How can this come about? What does it mean? At the same time, we …
From Churchill to Petraeus
“I have not become her Majesty's first minister to preside over the dissolution of the British Empire.” It was hard not to remember this proud declaration of Winston Churchill, …
Motive Behind Slaying of 72 Mexican Migrants Still Unclear
Mexico City - President Felipe Calderon on Friday accused the gunmen who killed 72 illegal migrants in northern Mexico this week of “incalculable savagery” as his government attempted to …
Speculation and the New Commodity Price Crisis: Separating the Wheat From the Chaff
Wheat prices had been climbing prior to the August 5 announcement of a Russian wheat export ban. Kansas Board of Trade wheat futures contracts had gone from $4.92 a …
Living in New Orleans After Katrina
A Crisis of Democracy: Real Solutions to the BP Oil Spill
For Gulf residents, the BP oil spill has made the problem of unchecked corporate power painfully clear. Exxon Valdez survivor Riki Ott on why this may be the moment …
No “Home Sweet Home“
Note from Greg Palast: Matt Pascarella and I encountered Patricia Thomas while she was breaking into a home at the Lafitte Housing Project in New Orleans. It was her …
Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq's oil-rich south. A shamefaced …
News in Brief: Bernanke Says Recovery on Track as GDP Falls, and More
Bernanke Says Recovery on Track as GDP Falls