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By Eliot Spitzer, Slate Magazine
Some people on Wall Street, and at the Wall Street Journal, speak as if the financial crisis never happened.
The art of the "big lie" is to repeat something often enough, and with a powerful enough megaphone, such that your distortions are not challenged. So it is with the Wall Street Journal's obsession with attacking and misrepresenting the multiple cases that I brought against both AIG and its former chairman and CEO, Hank Greenberg.Read more »
By Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog
Portrait, Michael Moore, 04/03/09. (photo: Ann-Christine Poujoulat/Getty)Read more »
By JOE NOCERA - New York Times.
You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them.
These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took. Read more »
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - New York Times.
The veteran global investor Mohamed El-Erian, who runs Pimco and has lived through many a financial crisis, recently issued a report describing the new, perilous state of today’s global economy. He described it like this: “The world is on a journey to an unstable destination, through unfamiliar territory, on an uneven road and, critically, having already used its spare tire.”Read more »
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN -- New York Times.Read more »
By Natasha Chart -- OurFuture.org
Jonathan Hiskes at Grist has written up a Copenhagen 101 primer for anyone who's just tuning in to the latest round of world climate talks, so I don't have to. Which is great, because there were three main points I wanted to go over.
First, the imperative: the planet is likely on track to lose life support ability for 5 billion people below current levels and our window to prevent this outcome is closing rapidly.Read more »
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