or just making my life more difficult. We blogspotters have been forced onto an interface that looks more like Wordpress, which as far a...

A little long, but a wonderful ride; via notbored.org .

Great article by Sara Robinson at Alternet , summarizing three important kinds of shift we may now face: Per Joseph Stiglitz , we should sto...

John Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker. He has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his document...

in Rolling Stone . (Seems like they and The New Yorker are among the few print media left in the U.S. doing real journalism anymore. Wonde...

Great charts etc. here . Via HuffPo .

IT'S NOT THE BONUSES. Ok, the bonuses are bad; but they're the LEAST of the problems with what's going on. AIG is insolvent; it ...

Excellent article in The Nation , by John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney (much more at the link): "Our founders never thought that f...

Dunno know 'bout you, but I'm keeping a close watch on Obama; and so far, his picks aren't totally reassuring. When I was 10, I ...

good summary of where we are, how we got here, and how to fix it, here (6:50 min.)

"It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be." -- Warren Buffet, CNN Interview , May 25 2005, suggestin...

(For an inspirational soundtrack for this post, click on the video in the post two below this one, titled "Human Anthem.") In a re...

From Bloomberg . "A push by the richest U.S. universities to unload their stakes in private-equity funds is flooding the market, drivin...

(Thanks apricotX ; via thanks snarky !).

If you're wondering how Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson came out so quickly with detailed proposals for a complete consolidation and overhau...

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the ban...

Apologies for the repeat, but I think Klein's insights are of critical importance, and too few people are aware of them. We've alrea...