Chuck Spinney: How Bankers Own White House, Offer Clandestine Tax Evasion Services in USA

The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning Tuesday 24 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.” When we saw it on the website Gawker.com we had to smile — but the …

John Steiner: Iceland Defies Banks, Recovering Rapidly

Iceland Recovery – Rothko Play – Is Europe Over? cbcradio, Sunday, December 11, 2011 Hour One In the 2008 economic meltdown, Iceland nearly collapsed. Its three banks failed, it’s currency lost 50 per cent of its value and in an unprecedented display of anger, usually peaceful Icelanders took to the streets to protest. But Iceland …

Eagle: Stephen Lerner, Occupy, and Street Activism

Stephen Lerner’s 2011 Harold Meyerson American Prospect, 2 January 2012 “We must expand from one-day marches and demonstrations to weeks of creative direct action and activities,” wrote Stephen Lerner in New Labor Forum, a quarterly left-labor journal, several weeks before Occupy Wall Street took shape. One way to do that, he continued, “is to build …

Susan Lindauer: IRAQ – The Legacy of Deception and Its Costs

IRAQ: THE LEGACY OF DECEPTION AND ITS COSTS Susan Lindauer, Former CIA Back Channel to Iraq at the United Nations Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a “Real Politik” vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for …