Capitalism
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BROTHERS-IN-ARMS: CAPITALISM AND CORPORATE JOURNALISM
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned. Continue reading
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Rick Wolff, “Economic Crisis, Greek Theater, Our Drama”
Political theater now grips Greece. As with ancient Greek plays, today’s drama also reaches and touches everyone else. We sense Greece’s dilemmas becoming our own. Her rulers declare that a crisis now threatens Greece. They blame it on the masses. To overcome it, they must impose great suffering on the masses. The rulers’ chorus intones… Continue reading
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Bilderberg plays into conspiracy theory by keeping silent
The Bilderberg Group is an unofficial conference of around 150 invitation-only guests who are insiders in politics, banking, business, the military and the media. The group’s meetings are held in secret and are closed to the public; activities supposedly range from strategizing world affairs to playing golf. The current conference is being held at a… Continue reading
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The Gods of Money – German style By F. William Engdahl
The German banks played casino with Wall Street and now demand austerity from Greece Continue reading
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Goldman Sachs, Undeclared Enemy of the State By Stacy Herbert
We look at the scandals of naked short selling, supplementary liquidity providers and the conspiracy of banks. And we also mention the financial terrorist playing cards. In the second half of the show, Max interviews Jim Rickards about naked short selling and overwhelming the specialist system, Wall Street banks undermining Greece and Goldman Sachs as… Continue reading
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Taking Back the Money Power: How Hidden Pools of Government Money Could Help Save the Economy By Ellen Brown
For over a decade, accountant Walter Burien has been trying to rouse the public over what he contends is a massive conspiracy and cover-up, involving trillions of dollars squirreled away in funds maintained at every level of government. His numbers may be disputed, but these funds definitely exist, as evidenced by the Comprehensive Annual Financial… Continue reading
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MELTUP – The Beginning Of US Currency Crisis And Hyperinflation
21 May, 2010 — The Viral Video | zero hedge http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.5738163 more about “MELTUP – “The Beginning Of US Currenc…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Be nice to America, or we'll bring democracy to your country By William Blum
14 May, 2010 — Killing Hope http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.5651377 more about “Be nice to America, or we’ll bring de…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Lost on the Fearless Plain
The investing class has put thousands of billions into movies, TV and other media to keep the hologram lit up over the past six decades. Which is to say, keep the public in an entertained stupor, awed, mislead, and most importantly, distracted. But the payoff probably runs in the trillions. Continue reading
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Video: Fault Lines – Arundhati Roy
Fault Lines presenter Avi Lewis sits down for a one-on-one interview with author, Arundhati Roy Continue reading
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Danny Schecter on Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is to “sue for peace” in the fraud trial bought by the Securities Exchange Commission and offer to admit to a lesser charge of negligence if the main charges are dropped. Continue reading
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Restructuring the Bretton Woods Twins: Jayati Ghosh Interviewed by Prabir Purkayastha
The problem with the IMF, with the World Bank, with the WTO, with the policies of the United States is that they have reflected the interests of large multinational capital. What we have now with more people at the high table, more countries represented at the high table, is that larger segments of international large… Continue reading
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Cochabamba: Climate Justice Has a New Program and New Hope for Victory By Ian Angus
Following the failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where Barack Obama tried unsuccessfully to impose a toothless backroom deal, Bolivian President Evo Morales invited “the peoples of the world, social movements and Mother Earth’s defenders, … scientists, academics, lawyers and governments,” to attend a conference “to define strategies for action and mobilization to defend… Continue reading
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Democracy Now Interviews Danny Schechter on His New Film “Plunder”
We speak with investigative journalist, filmmaker, and author Danny Schechter, ‘the News Dissector.’ His latest film features interviews with industry insiders to reveal how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity. It’s called “Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time.” Continue reading
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Keiser Report No.36: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert wonder why Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud spared the victims of banking fraud; they also look at the scandals behind the Fabulous Fab Tourre’s “monstrosities,” Gordon Brown’s “shock” at Goldman’s “moral bankruptcy,” and at the political markets shocking the currency markets. In the second half of the show, Max talks… Continue reading
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Keiser Report with very special Hollywood guest
Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at a handful of the many Goldman Sachs fraud metaphors; the scandals of what the US bankers, regulators and government knew about Repo 105 before it helped take down Lehman Brothers, and of President Clinton’s big mistake on derivatives. In the second half of the show, Stacy interviews… Continue reading
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Ending structural blackmail? By Gerald Epstein
Epstein: None of the measures being considered will end “too big to fail” Continue reading
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On the edge with Max Keiser: Wall Street Fraud
24 April, 2010 — PressTVGlobalNews Max Keiser is on the edge of the financial news where future financial scandals, market crashes and monetary crisis begin. Be there before it happens. Part 1 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.3486271 On the edge with Max Keiser-Wall Street Fraud-04-23-2010 (Part 1) Part 2 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.3486279 On the edge with Max Keiser-Wall Street Fraud-04-23-2010 (Part2)… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: There ain’t no escape from collapse
I don’t think it’s possible to ‘hang out’ until the collapse is over. For starters, it could take 50 years. Or it could take five years. If we knew, more people would probably get off their asses, even in America. But I don’t think it will be all at once, or even recognizable at any… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 