by Richard Eskow | Mar 3, 2011 | Blog
Bernie Madoff's talking and we are, too. Here's an interview on RT Television, discussing Madoff's comments about the US government and Wall Street crimes:
by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
There's been a lot of confusion over the last few days about a possible deal with US banks to settle a fifty-state lawsuit over widespread and massive foreclosure fraud. Attorneys general from all the states have been working together, and the latest word is that the...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
In Part I of this series we discussed the media's failure to accurately report the scope and nature of the banker crime wave around foreclosure fraud, and talked about the confusion over reports that the Administration has proposed a framework for settling the...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog
Call it a "general strike" ... from above. Republicans in Congress are trying to paralyze the government with their new budget bill, using a "disrupt and defeat" strategy to prevent it from delivering services promised to the the nation's citizens and required under...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog
George Orwell would be proud. The latest Washington catchphrase deserves a place of honor in the 1984 lexicon, right between "War Is Peace" and "Love Is Hate." It's a virus of the language that's spreading faster than the stomach flu. "The President's budget punts on...