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Did Latin America Gradually Turn Left? Or Neoliberal?

To the superficial observer, it may be a blessing the despots and dictators, human rights abusers, like Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, Colombia’s Iván Duque; Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno; Chile’s Sebastián Piñera; to name just a few, are gone, have disappeared from the Latin American political arena, in what was made believe to be democratic elections. Good, you […]

The Hunter Biden Criminal Probe Bolsters a Chinese Scholar’s Claim About Beijing’s Influence With the Bidens

Professor Di Dongsheng says China’s close ties to Wall Street and its dealings with Hunter could enable it to exert more power than under Trump By Glenn Greenwald | December 9, 2020 Hunter Biden acknowledged today that he has been notified of an active criminal investigation into his tax affairs by the U.S. Attorney for […]

These Are the Banks that Own the New York Fed and Its Money Button that Has Reportedly Pumped $3 Trillion into Other Banks in Just 63 Days

The largest shareowners of the New York Fed are the following five Wall Street banks: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of New York Mellon. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley are also four of the five largest holders of high-risk derivatives.

Porkins Policy Radio episode 185 Jenna Orkin on the health effects of the WTC dust and the EPA’s coverup

This week writer and journalist Jenna Orkin joined me to discuss her book Ground Zero Wars: The fight to reveal the lies of the EPA in the wake of 9/11 and clean up Lower Manhattan, and the ongoing health problems caused by the World Trade Center dust. Jenna started off by telling us where she was on 9/11 and how the day unfolded for her. She talked about the fact that her son went to Stuyvesant High School at the time and how this led her to research the health effects of 9/11.

Thanks to Obama and Trump, America’s Five Largest Banks Raked in $583 Billion Since 2008 Crash

“With no jail time for executives and half a trillion in post-crisis profits, the big banks have made out like bandits during the post-crash period.” (CD) — The 2008 financial meltdown inflicted devastating financial and psychological damage upon millions of ordinary Americans, but a new report released by Public Citizen on Tuesday shows the Wall Street banks that caused the crash with […]

Big Banks Begin Imposing Gun Control on Their Customers

(ZHE) Seemingly following Andrew Ross Sorkin’s suggestions, and echoing the virtue-signaling from Dick’s Sporting Goods et al., megabank Citigroup is setting restrictions on the sale of firearms by its business customers. As a reminder, Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote in the NY Times that banks could control guns, if Washington won’t. Liberty Blitzkrieg’s Mike Krieger exclaimed that even in today’s world replete […]

Banks Spent A Staggering 2 Billion Dollars On Lobbying During 2016 US Election

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Financial Services Committee investigating Wells Fargo’s opening of unauthorized customer accounts.
Banks and other financial companies expecting to make more than US$200 billion from anticipated deregulation laws spent record amounts on lobbying in the last election cycle, according to an advocacy group report released Wednesday.