Look at this chart! It says everything one needs to know in a single graphic. The problem is orders of magnitude worse than it was before the 2008 financial crisis. Many many many times worse! No, our banking system is not “sound” as your fearless leaders would like you to believe. And the problem this […]
The three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago — one continuous, extended scream of outrage — are, paradoxically, brilliant, bitter, disbelieving and infused with awe: awe at the strength characterising the best among us, in the worst of all situations. In that monumental text, published in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn conducted “an experiment in literary investigation” — a hybrid […]
What Obama is doing now with his Drone strikes is a war crime and needs to be stopped. Just like Bush needed to be stopped with the Iraq war.
