Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now (Naomi Klein)

I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others c ...

Attorneys General Settlement: The Next Big Bank Bailout? (Matt Taibbi)

A foreclosure sign hangs on a fence in front of a foreclosed home in Richmond, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Oct. 5, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Amidst all the bad news coming out of Wall Stre ...

Occupy Together: The Best Among (Chris Hedges)

Chris Hedges Sept. 30, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or yo ...

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace (Chris Hedges)

Sept. 19, 2011 (Truthdig) -- Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, play ...

The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass (Matt Taibbi)

The entrance to UBS headquarters in Zurich. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images Sept. 15, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The news that a "rogue trader" (I hate that term -- more on that in a moment) has soake ...

American Decline: Causes and Consequences (Noam Chomsky)

US soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter. (Photo: AFP - Johannes Eisele) Aug. 26, 2011 (al- ...

Amnesty for the Indefensible (Robert Scheer)

Aug. 23, 2011 (TruthDig) -- They will get away with it, at least in this life. “They” are the Wall Street usurers, people of a sort condemned in Scripture, who have brought more misery to this nation ...

Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 1 (William D. Cohan)

Illustration by Ian Michael Rousey & Chris Nosenzo Aug. 7, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- What will it take for Americans to finally get the message that much of Wall Street, in its current form, is a corrupt e ...

Economy Close to Stall Speed May Signal Renewed U.S. Recession (Peter Coy)

Aug. 3, 20111 (Bloomberg) -- Economics isn’t rocket science, but the U.S. economy is a little like a rocket. If it has enough thrust, it can escape the tug of economic gravity. Not enough, and it jus ...

Next Up: Pakistan -- Ominous signs of a major new war (Justin Raimondo)

July 11, 2011 (AntiWar.com) -- I see someone besides myself has noticed all the “leaking” going on in the upper echelons of Washington over our rocky relationship with Pakistan. Suddenly Islamabad is ...

How the bubble destroyed the middle class (Rex Nutting)

Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money July 8, 2011 (MarketWatch) -- A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the 9+ ...