The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: D Is for Debt

By Michael Hudson Sep 15, 2013 Dependency: the loss of choice. Establishing a world system based on foreign dependency is the aim of the Washington Consensus. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross Hairs

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sep 5, 2013 Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Happy Fourth

Milt Priggee, Cagle Cartoons, www.miltpriggee.com Jul 4, 2013 Dig deeper

How Dick Cheney’s Son-in-Law Helped Deregulate Chemical Plants

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Apr 27, 2013 MSNBC host Chris Hayes explained on his program Thursday how the Bush administration--and specifically the former vice president's son-in-law--played a critical role in defeating regulations that would have strengthened federal oversight of chemical plants like the one that exploded and killed 15 people in West, Texas, last week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bird Is Not the Word in New USDA Rules

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 25, 2013 The Obama administration is set to dramatically reduce the USDA's oversight of the nation's poultry slaughterhouses while allowing companies to speed up their kill lines. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

It Wasn’t David Stockman Who Wrecked the Economy

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 2, 2013 For all of the strident attacks on Stockman’s column, I have yet to read a serious critique of his most brazen claim. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Inconvenient Truth About Jack Lew

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jan 11, 2013 I suppose that he can't be much worse than Timothy Geithner, but that should be scant cause for cheer over the news that the president has nominated Jack Lew as Treasury secretary. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Crony Capitalism’s Power Couple

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 21, 2012 Where are Phil and Wendy Gramm hiding now that UBS, like Enron before it, has been nailed by the G-men? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Sign That Obama Will Repeat Economic Mistakes

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 7, 2012 Reports in the business press tout a prime participant in the great banking hustle as a possible candidate to be the next Treasury secretary. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Great Deregulator

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Sep 10, 2012 Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the wild applause for his disingenuous speech at the Democratic National Convention last week is a sure sign of the poverty of what passes for progressive politics.Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Why the Senate Won’t Touch Jamie Dimon

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Jun 21, 2012 JPMorgan Chase is the biggest campaign donor to many of the members of the Senate Banking Committee who were charged with investigating the bank's CEO, Jamie Dimon, in mid June. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Care and Feeding of a Corporate Propagandist

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 21, 2012 Over the last decade, New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell has managed to metamorphose from a trained shill for Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and the deregulatory movement into an intellectual darling of mainstream "liberal" America. How did he do it? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )