Did The Romneys’ Auto Bailout Bonanza Violate Federal Ethics Law?
This week, Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio to
Industry
The House I Live In
America is a nation of losers. It’s the best thing about us. We’re the dregs
From Ecuador
Good and Evil at the Center of the Earth
A Conversation with Ecuador’s New President
Admit it
You don't know where the Tajikistan is
You don’t know where the Tajikistan is. Or Kyrgyzstan. Or Turkmenistan
South Carolina Primary Colors: Black and White?
South Carolina 2000: Six hundred police in riot gear facing a few
“I have Karl Rove’s emails”
Read the Interview with Palast from the Dollars & Sense magazine spring issue about to hit the streets
Hillary’s Mother-F’ing Tour Business
Before his untimely death in a plane crash, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown said
Tinker Bell, Pinochet and The Fairy Tale Miracle of Chile
Chile’s former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet has died at the age of 91 – a week after entering hospital in Santiago to receive treatment for a heart attack. En espanol Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Tinker Bell and General Augusto Pinochet had much in common. All…
Enron’s Skilling Sentenced; Bush Walks
Update of the original report for Truthout [October 24, 2006] Don’t kid yourself. If you think the sentencing of Jeff Skilling, former Enron CFO (criminal financial officer), to twenty-four years in the slammer means that justice has been done, think again. First, Skilling got away…
Lawyers, Guns and Money
“Just Put Down That Law Suit, Pardner, and No One Gets Hurt.”
There are 200 million guns in civilian hands in the United States. That works out at 200 per lawyer. Wade through the foaming websites of the anti-Semites, weekend militiamen and Republicans, and it becomes clear that many among America’s well-armed citizenry have performed the same calculation. Because if there is any hope of the ceasefire that they fear, it will come out of the barrel of a lawsuit.