Before the great mortgage collapse that plunged the U.S. and most of the rest of the world into the Great Recession the banksters, according to the L.A. Times, knew they were playing with fire. Jim Puzzanghera and Scott Reckard reported exactly two yea... »
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that Wall Street is so discomforted by-- and that their conservative allies in both parties are trying to destroy-- is flawed and imperfect in many aspects. Conservative Democrats threatened... »
The next bipartisan tag team to end the war on drugs?Perhaps you remember a couple weeks ago, right-wing culture warrior and religionist charlatan Pat Robertson advocating marijuana legalization. He broached the subject on The 700 Club and followed up ... »
God is great! Bill Moyers is back on PBS. The above clip features an interview with Byron Dorgan, the North Dakota populist who warned most strenuously about the sleazy corporatists-- of both parties-- repealing Glass-Steagall. That repeal is, undoubte... »
