The Obama Justice Department vs Big Five Banks Settlement is Actually a Payoff for Services Rendered

by Scott Creighton Keep this information in mind as you read the following article: The largest banks made a combined 13 billion dollars in profits from 7.77 trillion dollars of undisclosed emergency loans from the Federal Reserve bank over and above the 780 billion dollar banker bailouts. The loans and the bailouts were a direct [...]

Neo-liberal Destabilization Plan for Syria Continues: How long till we are on that “Seven Countries” list?

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: Russia opposes ‘Libyan scenario’ in Syria and will block resolution Syrian government accepted Russian brokered peace talks with opposition The Syrian “rebels/activists” rejected a Russian brokered peace talks The Syrian “rebels/activists” sabotage state run natural gas pipeline and murdered a doctor —— “So, I came back to see him (in the [...]

Corporatist Shills at Prison Planet Deride Keystone Pipeline Rejection in Support of Big Government Eminent Domain Seizures of Private Property

by Scott Creighton The “libertarians” over at Prison Planet didn’t lift a finger to help kill off the “Big Guberment” SOPA Bill that seems to have been shelved at least for now no thanks to the “Info Warriors”. In yet another pro-corporatist move it seems they are a bit peeved that Obama has decided to [...]

Beyond Pretense: The Global Free Market Wars Finally Acknowledged (and another U.S.S. Liberty event on the horizon?)

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: After all attempts to frame Iran have failed thus far, a Jerusalem Post article (written by a former Israeli intelligence officer turned Operation Mockingbird style “journalist“) suggests Iran will provide the needed pretext for the war themselves by attacking a U.S. warship. Get that? They failed to frame Iran for everything [...]

American Everyman Imperialist War and Political Ticker

by Scott Creighton Things are speeding up and we are rushing headlong into 2012, the year of real “CHANGE” in America. Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta are busy prodding Iran, Syria and Russia into all-out war while the presidential race is neatly boxed in with all neoliberal candidates arguing about who would privatize Social Security [...]

MF Global bankruptcy-On the Edge with Max Keiser

Conspiracy Theory No More: Goldman Sachs in a Bid to Rule the World

Goldman Sachs is certainly a major player in the push to rule the world by financial insiders, but the real master has been and still is, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central banks of the network of privately owned central banks. Goldman was instrumental in creating the world financial crisis by developing, selling, [...]

Accused of Deception, Citi Agrees to Pay $285 Million

from the New York Times Citigroup has agreed to pay $285 million to settle a civil fraud complaint that it misled investors in a $1 billion derivatives deal tied to the United States housing market, then bet against the investors as the housing market began to show signs of distress, the Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

DEBTOCRACY (FULL – ENG Subs)

Neoliberalism is a crime, it’s a crime against humanity, and it is the now the established religion of the elite and political classes. As is pointed out in this film, even if this odious debt we face here is in fact completely legitimate, which of course it is not, but even if it is, it [...]

The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part I: The Eight Families

(Another must read. Also read the post below by Michael Hudson.) by Dean Henderson, Left Hook Blog The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European [...]

Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy

(A must read) by Michael Hudson, Information Clearinghouse Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In May 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the lead in rounding up €120bn ($180 billion) from European governments to subsidize Greece’s unprogressive tax [...]

The Strauss-Kahn Set-Up and the Globalist Assault on Greek Sovereignty

by Scott Creighton Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been successfully removed from the equation, the globalist financial institutions are free to cash in on the Great Recession they created.  They’re attempting to hammer the people of Greece into submission with new “unprecedented” levels of privatization of public assets and even calls for “outside institutions” to [...]

Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman promo

Order your copy of Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman here. Read what I wrote last October about “Waiting for Superman” – “Waiting for Superman” Is Just Neoliberal Propaganda Marketing Pinochet’s Class Based School System to the American Left

Corporate Martial Law: Public Schools Auctioned Off to Highest Bidder

by Julianne Hing, AlterNet If you’ve ever wondered whether the solution to a cash-strapped low-performing urban school district’s financial and education woes is the wholesale privatization of the public school system, you’re about to get your answer. Detroit, which is caught up in a state that has turned on its public workers, is auctioning off [...]

Wisconsin Union Law Passage To Be Examined By Judge

Todd Richmond, AP A week ago, Wisconsin Republicans thought they’d won the fight over the state’s polarizing union rights bill. They’d weathered massive protests, outfoxed Senate Democrats who fled the state and gotten around a restraining order blocking the law by having an obscure state agency publish it. They even started preparations to pull money [...]