Self Defense for Radicals: Collective Soul + Activist Heart (Mickey Z)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 14, 2010 -- In his book, Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats, author Gwynne Dyer presents a series of scenarios that could potentially play ...

Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now (Ted Rall)

Oct. 21, 2010 -- SAN FRANCISCO (Information Clearing House) -- What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so. In one case in Florida, an ...

Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)

Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. The Washingt ...

Jim Rogers Says Bank Balance Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff (CNBC)

Oct. 20, 2010 (CNBC) -- The problems banks have with mortgages will take a long time to be solved and bank stocks are not attractive despite the recent drop in price following fears over problems wit ...

Why The Paperwork Appears 'Sloppy' (Neil Garfield)

Oct. 20, 1010 (Livinglies) -- After centuries of lending money and preparing loan documents it seems that the least likely suspect for screwing up the paperwork on tens of millions of “loans” would b ...

When Banks Are the Robbers (Amy Goodman)

Oct. 20, 2010 (TruthDig) -- The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in who ...

America's False Consciousness (Charles Sullivan)

Oct. 20, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- An essay authored by Patrick Martin, and published at the World Socialist Web Site Oct. 13, 2010, revealed some interesting findings regarding the approv ...

Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)

Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, wh ...

Global Systemic Crisis: LEAP/E2020’s analysis of 39 countries’ risks 2010-2014

Global systemic crisis - LEAP/E2020’s analysis of 39 countries’ risks 2010-2014: A collective but contrasting dive into the phase of world geopolitical dislocation Oct. 16, 2010 (LEAP/E2020) -- Publi ...

The War On Terror (Paul Craig Roberts)

Oct. 15, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50 billion-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone r ...

Bernanke Ponders The 'Nuclear Option' (Mike Whitney)

Oct. 15, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Ben Bernanke's speech on Friday in Boston could turn out to be a real barnburner. In fact, there's a good chance the Fed chairman will announce changes i ...