The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis has been a failure. The banks welcome public money to remove toxic assets from their books, insured by we-the-taxpayers, as well as the hundreds of billions in direct handouts, but they’ve hardly returned the favor. They’ve used these funds to pay mega salaries and prop up stock values, choices that obviously benefit them. They needed public support, no one wanted the system to collapse. But how much? We’re

“In Baghdad, a bomb planted on a car in Amil killed the driver; he may have been a suicide bomber. Last night, police killed two gunmen after they had killed a civilian. Five civilians were wounded in a blast in Doura, while another blast wounded five, including three policemen, on Palestine Street. In Mosul, a sticky bomb killed cleric who was a member of the al-Hadba Sunni Arab party. Police found a man who was lynched. Three policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb attack. Gunmen killed a p

Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it. Tryck på pilen för att spela videon A my Goodmand Democracy Now! grundades 1996 och är USA:s främsta progressiva nyhetskanal. Democracy Now! är syndikerad över stora delar av USA och innehåller nyheter och intervjuer med akademiska experter, författare och människor som man sällan ser på de vanliga kommmersiella tevekanaleerna här i USA Dagens löpsedlar Honduran Coup Leaders Blo

I think it’s a bit silly to be making end-of-decade lists this early (there is still 2.5% of the decade yet to be lived), but Pitchfork has gone ahead with their “ Top 200 Albums of the 2000s ” list, so I figure I might as well put mine out there now too. I’ve been adding and subtracting to this list for years now, and doubtless the list will change with time (in a month, some album might come out that outshines everything… and so I’ll adjust this list accordingly). But for now, in the waning

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