Review: Wingnuts–How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America

John P. Avlon Theater–Follow the Money to Understand October 28, 2010 Unquestionable a great book, with one big missing piece: it does not follow the money back to Wall Street. Buckminster Fuller understood in the 1960’s that the White House had become theater, I did not understand his meaning until the economic meltdown and my …

Journal: Faux-Libertarian $6 Billion Anti-Government Fear Fund & Network, Corporate Media Fully Integrated

Poor Goebbels, if only he had access to DVDs and the internet, he could have run a fear mongering operation as effective as the one described so brilliantly by Pam Martens here (also attached below) — a thought which suggests a question: Is 21st Century American Crony Capitalism merely a way station on the road to …

Reference: How Goldman Sachs Looted America

Exclusive Excerpt: America on Sale, From Matt Taibbi’s ‘Griftopia’ Matt Taibbi’s unsparing and authoritative reporting on the financial crisis has produced a series of memorable Rolling Stone features. He showed us how Goldman Sachs, that “great vampire squid,” played a central role in creating not only the housing bubble but four other big speculative booms …