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Exxon Mobil’s Exxcellent Adventure : Biggest Profit in U.S. History
‘The latest quarter’s net income equaled $1,865.69 per second, nearly $400 a second more than the prior mark.’By Aaron Smith / October 30, 2008 NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil Corp. set a quarterly profit record for a U.S. company Thursday, … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Profits, Economy, Exxon Mobil, Monopoly Capitalism, Oil Companies
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Surprise! : Banks to Use Bailout Bucks for Mergers
The Rag Blog reported yesterday, in a story titled Salary Bonuses Constitute 10% of the Bailout that pay and bonus deals for corporate bigwigs account for about ten percent of the government bailout package. Here’s more good news: Big banks … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank Bailouts, Banking, Congressional Bailout, Economy, Financial Crisis, Monopoly Capitalism
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Remember, the Money Was There All Along
The God That Failed: The 30-Year Lie of the Market CultBy Chris Floyd / October 11, 2008 Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash — or rather, by the reaction to it — is the staggering, … Continue reading
Juan Cole: Abolish Puritanism in Government Policy
The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing DownBy Juan Cole / October 15, 2008 The Republican Party that Nixon invented melded the moneyed classes of the Northeast with the white evangelicals of the South. This odd couple went on to … Continue reading
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Forbes publishes list of 400 wealthiest AmericansBy Tom Eley / September 24, 2008 Even as the US careens into its greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression, the financial aristocracy whose parasitism and criminality has brought on the crisis has … Continue reading
The Logical Conclusion to Deregulating the Markets
Has Deregulation Sired Fascism?By Paul Craig Roberts / September 24, 2008 Remember the good old days when the economic threat was mere recession? The Federal Reserve would encourage the economy with low interest rates until the economy overheated. Prices would … Continue reading
The Day the Neoconservatives Nationalized AIG
The AIG RescueBy Jon Taplin / September 16, 2008 A few months ago, neoconservatives were screaming bloody murder when Hugo Chavez nationalized the phone company. Today a neoconservative U.S. Government nationalized AIG, the largest insurance company in the world, because … Continue reading
When Medicine Meets Capitalism – Crony Politics
Peter Pitts (left) and Robert GoldbergThe FDA Guerillas of Wonky DrugWonksby Evelyn Pringle / August 8, 2008 Former Bush Administration officials have formed a pharmaceutical industry guerilla group called the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, described on its … Continue reading
Another Piece of What Iraq Was Really About
Iraq arms sales request worth over nine billion dollars: PentagonAugust 1, 2008 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Friday it has notified Congress of proposed military sales to Iraq valued at more than nine billion dollars, including helicopters, tanks and armored … Continue reading
Assurances Economists Gave Made No Sense
A Work Force Betrayed: Watching Greed Murder the EconomyBy Paul Craig Roberts / July 9, 2008 The collapse of world socialism, the rise of the high speed Internet, a bought-and-paid-for US government, and a million dollar cap on executive pay … Continue reading
An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky at WritersMugsIn which he discusses Iran, Irag andother matters of great importBy Wajahat Ali / June 17, 2008 “I’m absolutely deluged with requests right now, but I really would like to do this interview, I just don’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Freedom, American Hegemony, Capitalism, Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Intellectuals, Interview, Iran, Iraq, Journalism, Media, Monopoly Capitalism, Pentagon
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