Ellen Brown
Remember when Goldman Sachs - dubbed by Matt Taibbi the Vampire Squid - sold derivatives to Greece so the government could conceal its debt, then bet against that debt, driving it up?
In November 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Bank of North Dakota (BND), the nation's only state-owned bank, is more profitable than Goldman Sachs Group
Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken
Scottish voters will go to the polls on September 18th to decide whether Scotland should become an independent country
Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warren's support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs
Welfare payments, health care for the poor, and benefits for the elderly and disabled have been slashed. State workers have been downsized
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed-from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th centuries, to the mid-nineteenth century "potato famine" that was really a holocaust
Reports are that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a massive, covert military buildup, writes Ellen Brown
In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, US Representative Alan Grayson and three co-signers expressed concern about the expansion of large banks into what have traditionally been non-financial commercial spheres
In an August 2013, journalist Greg Palast posted evidence of a secret late-1990s plan devised by Wall Street ans US Treasury officials to open banking to the lucrative derivatives business