Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-Hairs

Syria provides free education, free medical care and subsidized housing for everyone. But even more threateningly to Wall Street-style finance, it has state-owned central banks that issue national currency and are under government control.

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Ellen Brown: The Leveraged Buyout of America

Giant banks are buying up our country’s infrastructure, the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy. Aren’t there rules against that?

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We Are All Connected: Hearing The Message of Indigenous Tribes

In the current United States, from the Indigenous point of view, it is as though a chief can have 99 buffalo for himself while he looks down at the community trying to live on one buffalo. This is a model for community or Tribal extinction.

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The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks

The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011.

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Decline and Fall: How American Society Unravelled

Thirty years ago, the old deal that held U.S. society together started to unwind, with social cohesion sacrificed to greed. Was it an inevitable process – or was it engineered by self-interested elites?

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Bail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Another Argument for Publicly-Owned Banks

The deposits of U.S. pension funds are well over the insured limit of $250,000. They will get raided just as the pension funds did in Cyprus, and so will the insurance companies. Who else?

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Winner Takes All: The Super-Priority Status of Derivatives

Derivatives have “super-priority” status in bankruptcy, and Dodd Frank precludes further taxpayer bailouts. In a big derivatives bust, there may be no collateral left for the creditors who are next in line.

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Corporate Tax Betrayal: Ripping off the Public and Running with the Profits

Multinational corporations built their businesses on the backs of American taxpayers by depending on government research, national defense, the legal and educational systems and our infrastructure.

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