Evening Briefing—7th Sept 2010

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Daily Briefing—2nd-3rd Sept 2010

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Daily Briefing—12th-13th Aug 2010

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Evening Briefing—6th July 2010

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Evening Briefing—24th June 2010

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Democrats Driving Nail in the Coffin of Financial Justice

Congress and the media further narrow the ‘Wall St. reform debate’ performance.

Weekend Briefing—15th-16th May 2010

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Daily Briefing—14th May 2010

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The Rape of Monopoly as Line Charts

Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America all completed the first quarter without one losing day.

Daily Briefing—11th May 2010

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‘America: The Sucker of Last Resort’ (Video)

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) tells you how you became part-owner of the toxic Red Roof Inn—but not really the owner at all, just the one covering the liabilities with your homes (10:58):

Daily Briefing—22nd April 2010

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Chomsky’s Lectern: ‘The Role of the Radical Intellectual—Some Personal Reflections’ (Video)

Earlier this month, in Madison, WI, Professor Noam Chomsky reflected on:

• His early personal exposure to anarchism and activism through people we wouldn’t today call ‘intellectuals’, but the insight of ‘everyday people’;
• The crushing of liberation ventures by “fascism, Stalinism and liberal democracies” and the “miraculous sympathy and humanity” of the most brutally oppressed from Vietnam to Palestine to Southern Colombia;
• His introduction to the “intellectual class” of “liberal democrat” gatekeepers during his graduate studies and its manipulation of the word “enemy” for “conquerors”, ‘radical rewrite’ of John F. Kennedy’s “legacy” to communicate him as a “dove” after the Tet Offensive, ‘liberal imperialists’  and their ‘unprincipled’ objection to the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a “strategic blunder” showing its ‘deeply rooted imperial mentality’;
• The validity of the “Tea Party Movement”, the “big business community” and their love for Obama, the “owners of society” and how policy is engineered for “their interests”;
• The “global shift in power” from the “workforce to multinational capital” making China a giant “assembly plant”, the financial community’s ‘rational externality’ of “systemic risk” for “institutional reasons” provided by the “Nanny State”, the “doom loop” of government bailouts that provide incentive for those in power to create “financial crises”;
• The “moving” and “articulate”, though “ridiculed”, “manifesto” of terrorist Joe Stack before his suicide bombing (57:48):

Daily Briefing—16th April 2010

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Poll: 19 of 20 Elitists Prefer Barack Obama to Ron Paul

It isn’t socialism and the status quo is most likely unjust when 95% of the whose who sympathize with the elite “clique that revolves around Washington, D.C. and Wall Street” prefer the corporatist president to the constitutionalist congressman, according to a recent poll.