Scotland Should Declare Its Independence From Alex Salmond
I mean, what’s the bloody point? Why pretend to declare your independence only to chain yourself to a coin with a British snout on it and simultaneously beg to
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The Vulture: Chewing Argentina’s Living Corpse
Vulture investor Paul Singer has forced the nation of Argentina into default. Here’s the real story, from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits by
Time to Change Bernanke’s Medication?
Secret White House letter to G-20
I still get a thrill whenever I get my hands on a confidential memo with “The White House, Washington” appearing on
The House I Live In
America is a nation of losers. It’s the best thing about us. We’re the dregs
Brown’s Fixer Explains How It’s Done:
Jon Mendelsohn and the Secret Tape
Boasted £11 million donated by Tesco cut tax bill by £20 million. It was a stunning admission
Are U.S. Corporations Going to “Win” The Iraq War?
Guest Column By Antonia Juhasz Upon his return from Iraq on October 5, Senator John Warner, Republican of Virginia, remarked “There is progress being made in certain areas, but you just find that so many communities don’t even have drinking water. It seems to me…
George Bush Should Get Down on his Knees
and Kiss Hugo Chavez' Behind
Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. In my interview with the president of Venezuela on March 28, he made…
Today’s Pig is Tomorrow’s Bacon
Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation “Enterprise Zone,” your kids will ask you, “What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?” The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they’re under attack. That’s how, little by little,…
Screwed: Hartmann on the War Against the Middle Class
An excerpt from Air America Radio’s Thom Hartmann’s new book, “Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It Labor goes back a long way in U.S. history. In 1874 unemployed workers were demonstrating in New York City’s…