Review (Guest): Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis – Parasitic Finance Capital

Ismael Hossein-azdeh Review of Hossein-zadeh, Ismael. 2014. Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital., May 16, 2014 By Isaac Christiansen Ismael Hossein-zadeh has done a masterful job in explaining the causes of the 2007-08 financial collapse and in identifying what must be done in response. He sets out in Beyond Mainstream Explanations …

Patrick Meier: Live Crisis Map of Disaster Damage Reported on Social Media

Live Crisis Map of Disaster Damage Reported on Social Media Digital humanitarian volunteers have been busing tagging images posted to social media in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda. More specifically, they’ve been using the new MicroMappers ImageClicker to rate the level of damage they see in each image. Thus far, they have clicked over 7,000 images. Those that …

Future Release (7 January 2014): Company Man: Thirty Years of Controvbersy and Crisis in the CIA

Release date: January 7, 2014 Book Description From the “most influential career lawyer in CIA history” (Los Angeles Times) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the U.S. government’s intelligence program (1976-2009). In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury …

NIGHTWATCH: Financial Crisis Now a Crisis of Fundamentals

Europe:  Updates. In an interview with a French daily on 25 December, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde stressed that Europe’s financial crisis is turning into “a crisis of confidence in public debt and the solidity of the financial system. Greece: According to an IMF source involved in discussions with Greece, the situation in …

Interviews: Bill Black & Yves Smith Our Financial Fraud Crisis

Audio of Bill Black featured on “Le Show” with Harry Shearer “Bill Black fraud” at DuckDuckGo Bill Black is an expert on white-collar crime. Audio of Yves Smith featured on “Le Show” with Harry Shearer Yves Smith’s (author of ECONned) Naked Capitalism Review (Guest): ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism