Too Big Too Prosecute – the New Age of Barbarism

by Scott Creighton

When they declared that the certain banks who had colluded with each other, the housing industry, the rating agencies, and the government to create the newest depression we are facing, to be “Too Big Too Fail” what they did was in essence also declare that they were too big too investigate and certainly too big too prosecute.

These banks convinced Vishy politicians on the left and the right to support comprehensive Wall Street deregulation, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, and the unholstering of the derivatives market (derivatives were illegal in this country for 60 years or so after the last depression). Then they pumped and dumped the CDS and other toxic assets they created with their “liar loans” in sub-prime markets and profited off bets they placed on the failure of their own clients. Then they had the gall to threaten martial law if the people didn’t fork over 780 billion in bailouts (which they never used to ease lending restrictions) and got an additional 12 trillion or so in 0% interest loans (which they never used to ease lending restrictions).

And they did the same trick across Europe, wiping out their economies as well.

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist at this point to read the writing on the wall. After all, the TARP bailout was the most universally opposed piece of legislation that I can remember in my lifetime ( a close second being the FISA reform which gave retroactive immunity to telecom companies for helping Uncle Sam spy on all of us illegally). Everyone saw this coming and here it is.

No prosecution for Goldman Sachs and no prosecution for Jon Corzine for misplacing 1.2 billion dollars in his customer’s money. No prosecution for war crimes, no prosecution for torture, no prosecution for assassinations and the wanton murder of US citizens. No prosecution for waging acts of terrorism against innocent people across the globe on behalf of global corporations and the financial industry. No prosecution for stealing elections and murdering foreign leaders who oppose our corporate interests.

I don’t know what the word is too describe this. Maybe it’s “barbaric”.

1

a : of, relating to, or characteristic of barbarians b : possessing or characteristic of a cultural level more complex than primitive savagery but less sophisticated than advanced civilization

2

a : marked by a lack of restraint : wild b : having a bizarre, primitive, or unsophisticated quality

Synonyms: atrocious, cruel, barbarous, brutal, brute, butcherly, fiendish, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, sadistic, savage, truculent, vicious, wanton

The life and death of an Iraq vet

Also read Rebecca Burns’ new article “Suicide is anything but painless” about the hike in military suicides.

Watch a Chicago Tribune video about Anthony Wagner, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by his stint in Iraq and died of a suspected heroin overdose in November:

Wagner was also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Occupy movement. He died at an Occupy rally in November of last year.

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Obama’s FSA Admits to Bombing UN Observer’s Mission While US Public Opinion Shifts

by Scott Creighton

Let’s make this very clear to start with, the Obama administration (or the administration of “President Peace Prize” as I like to call the left cover product Obama) is running a proxy destabilization campaign in Syria which is causing untold harm and suffering to the people of that nation. The intention is to force regime change so that the neo-liberal Obama regime can come in and force their structural reforms (privatization, deregulation, opening up their markets to global interests, privatization of the Central Bank, increased unemployment, decimation of state workers, decimation of labor unions, seizure of mineral wealth for private companies)

Their cowardly and brutal efforts have met with a bit of resistance in the civilized world with 30 nations meeting the other day to work out a better plan to stop the aggression in Syria and to save lives, something that we don’t seem to be interested in these days. They are following the lead set by nations like Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, India, Pakistan and others who did not vote for the recent one-sided GA resolution in the UN and who have been working to block the imperialist aggression in Syria.

In spite of continued complicity from the globalist media corporations and fake left sites like Democracy Now! for instance, the general world opinion in this matter has shifted heavily in favor of the legitimate Syrian government as the people of the world reject the obvious propaganda being shoveled down their throats daily.

The Economic Collapse and the Neoliberal Onslaught

Professor Michel Chossudovsky explains how the IMF and World Bank worked in collusion with the Pentagon to overthrow nation states with their conditionalities and austerity measures for decades. What they used to do only to developing nations, they are now unleashing on the developed world through out Europe and the United States. What he forgets to mention is the fact that often, in order to set up nations to require these loans in the first place, the economic hit-men would go in and destabilize targeted nations through a variety of tricks many of which would be imposed on the country by complicit politicians and economic advisers who would strike deals with the hit-men for their own profit. Overall, a good analysis.

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