by Richard Eskow | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
After a big buildup, the hacker group Anonymous released its first batch of whistleblower emails regarding Bank of America. The result was ... confusion. Maybe they're real, maybe not. (We assume they are.) Maybe they're a letdown. Maybe not. Here's what we know and...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
People in Wisconsin are pulling their money out of Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Bank because they know it's been helping their Governor's crusade against public employees and the middle class. They might also like to know that M&I's executives ran one of the most...
by Bill Scher | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog
Last Thursday, I learned that Sen. Rand Paul hasn't had a functioning toilet in his home for 20 years. He seems to believe the federal government is not allowing him to own a functioning toilet. I found this strange, because I own a functioning toilet. And like the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog
If you think conservatism's war on America's working- and middle-classes is only happening in Wisconsin and a few other states, you're wrong. If you think that it's only a war against public employees, you're more wrong than you know. Dan Rather recently filed a story...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 13, 2011 | Blog
Has Jim DeMint, the right-wing senator leading the assault on federal domestic spending, finally gone too far? His corporate executive benefactors may soon come to think so. Even hypocrites can sometimes have a point. Take Jim DeMint, for instance, the U.S. senator...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 11, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Today we saw state troopers in Madison tearing peaceful protesters out of their own capitol after the Senate voted to deprive them of their rights. Video footage of that event should come with a label: Brought to you by the State of Wisconsin, a wholly owned...
