US President Donald Trump’s Christmas tweetstorm:
I am in the Oval Office & just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another large section of the Wall in Texas. We are already building and renovating many miles of Wall, some complete. Democrats must end Shutdown and finish funding. Billions of Dollars, & lives, will be saved!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2018
Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the rise of…
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GrayzoneProject — Barack Obama urged bankers to thank him for helping make them so much money during his tenure as president. He also boasted of turning the US into the world’s largest oil producer.
Obama made his appeals for elite adulation at a lavish gala hosted by former Secretary of State James Baker and surrounded by wealthy Republicans in tuxedos.
“Just say thank you, please,” former President Obama told a room full of bankers, and boasted of making the US the…
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Back in 1998, during the twilight years of the Clinton Administration, Pam Martens, a former Wall Street employee turned activist warned America about the growing corruption in finance and government. It was too late however, as Bill Clinton was already locked on course to give Wall Street a parting gift that would eventually ruin the lives of millions of working Americans, as well as Greeks, Icelanders and so many others globally.
Wall Street On Parade writes:
I was at a city hall meeting in Beaverton, Oregon, the other day when a few questions I had for the presenters dropped jaws. We’ll get to that later, the jaw-dropping effect I and those of my ilk have when we end up in the controlled boardrooms and chambers of the controllers – bureaucrats, public-private clubs like Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and both political operatives and those who liken themselves as the great planners of the world moving communities and housing and public commons around a giant chessboard to make things better for and more efficient in spite of us.
Bankster by Nancy OhanianIt's great when is reasonable and understanding when they ensnare someone for bending the rules, especially if-- the classic example-- it's a man who steals some milk to feed his staving baby or a loaf of bread for a starving family. Leniency may well be in order. But not from a tough conservative law-and-order regime. At least not for individuals.
With Jair Bolsonaro’s electoral victory in Sunday’s runoff election for president of Brazil, a global resurgence of the radical right is indisputable. Mr. Bolsonaro is a particularly ugly representative of this movement, both politically repressive and culturally intolerant.
The question being asked in the bourgeois press is: what psychological malady is taking hold that could persuade voters to elect such a person?
