The New Private Tax Man From Ancient Rome
Anthony Freda Illustration William Alden Huffington Post Sheila Rice, who sold her Maryland home to avoid foreclosure, was surprised to learn JPMorgan Chase was her…
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These Rights Are Not Negotiable
Chuck Baldwin In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and…
Justices Scalia And Thomas’s Attendance At Koch Event Sparks Judicial Ethics Debate
Sam Stein Huffington Post Reports that two Supreme Court Justices have attended seminars sponsored by the energy giant and conservative bankroller Koch Industries has sparked…
Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping
Charlie Savage The New York Times WASHINGTON — Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a…
Big Banks, Hedge Funds Become Surrogate Tax Collectors
Youtube – HuffPostFund Wall Street titans have a new sweet spot — as surrogate tax collectors. They see profits in tacking on fees and threatening…
Iran Acknowledges Espionage At Nuclear Facilities
Ali Akbar Dareini Associated Press TEHRAN – Iran revealed for the first time Saturday that some personnel at the country’s nuclear facilities were lured by…
The Cost of Lack of Trust
Dr. Tibor Machan Daily Bell Over the last couple of days a bunch of announcements came from our government, including warning about travel to Europe…
5 Key Principles that Unite Populist Progressives and Tea-Party Libertarians
“Rise like Lions after slumber; In unvanquishable number; Shake your chains to earth like dew; Which in sleep had fallen on you; Ye are many;…
The 6 Monolithic Media Corporations that Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear and Read
The Economic Collapse Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the…
Welcome to the Black Market
Harris Kupperman Lew Rockwell A few years back, on a trip to some Third World nation, I remember asking a successful businessman why more small…
American People to Corporate Media: We Don’t trust Anything You Say
Gallup Poll shows record high have no faith in mainstream news sources Steve Watson Prison Planet A Gallup poll has revealed that a record majority…
Supreme Court to decide corporate privacy rights
Supreme Court to weigh whether corporations can claim personal privacy interests Associated Press The Supreme Court is getting involved in an unusual freedom of…
The Left Right Paradigm is Over: It’s You vs. the Corporations
Barry Ritholtz Every generation or so, a major secular shift takes place that shakes up the existing paradigm. It happens in industry, finance, literature, sports,…
The Illusion of Pension Savings
Mary Williams Walsh NY Times Earlier this year, Illinois said it had found a way to save billions of dollars. It would slash the pensions…