Truthdig, Posted on Nov 2, 2011
Too Big to Jail
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/too_big_to_jail_20111102/
By Robert Scheer
Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money, and the fact that Citigroup agreed last week to pay a $285 million fine to settle SEC charges for “misleading investors” demonstrates a damning admission of culpability?
So why has Robert [...]
Bill Moyers: “Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy” | Truthout.
Truthdig, Posted on Oct 17, 2011
A Movement Too Big to Fail
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_movement_too_big_to_fail_20111017/
By Chris Hedges
There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to [...]
Abbas, Netanyahu, & Obama at the UN: Responses from a Palestinian and a Jew.
Marching In King’s Shadow
Op-Ed Contributor
Marching in King’s ShadowBy DIANE McWHORTER
Published: October 6, 2011
Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89 (October 6, 2011) IF you recognized the name of only one of the two greats who succumbed to cancer on Wednesday, that’s perhaps because the work of the Rev. Fred [...]
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace | Truthout.
Christianists on the March
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School and worked for many years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, warns that the Christian Right is the most dangerous mass movement in American history.
After two years reporting on the movement for his new book “American [...]
Truthdig, Posted on Jul 26, 2011
Fundamentalism Kills
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fundamentalism_kills_20110726/
By Chris Hedges
The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and those defined as our internal [...]
Charley Reese’s Final Column – “Why we have taxes and deficits”
by EDITOR REPOSTS
Charley Reese’s Final Column…Retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel…
Charley Reese is retiring. His last column is this one. I know many will miss this southern gentleman.. He had a great run and we are all better off for it.
Farewell, Mr. Reese, and thank [...]