May 2012 Archive

Obama the Warrior

By Glenn Greenwald: A new NYT article sheds considerable light on the character of the Democratic Commander-in-Chief...

Embedded Examiners Always Married The Natives, But Now Their Bosses Do Hook Ups

By William K. Black: Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess have written an extraordinarily important column for the New York Times about embedded examiners at JPMorgan. Embedded examiners’ are federal regulators whose ...

The NYT Makes Excuses for Rwanda’s Genocide in Congo

By Michael McGehee: On page eight of the New York Times May 29, 2012 edition is a story about a leaked United Nations report which shows Rwandans were ...

Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission

By Karl Grossman: The resignation last week of the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is another demonstration of the bankrupt basis of the NRC. ...

David Brooks’ Awesome Upside-Down “Tour through History”

By Marie Burns: Today in his New York Times column, David Brooks takes what he calls “a tour through history” to assess the federal government’s role in American economic ...

Glorious Warrior Traders

By Masaccio: The New York Times served up another of those paeans to the victorious financial speculators on Sunday. This one glorifies a 38-year old Boaz Weinstein of ...