I just watched an excellent Frontline episode on the financial crises, credit default swaps and the deregulation of the Clinton era.  It turns out that there were people who warned against the problems of credit default swaps.  Brooksley Born, former chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, repeatedly warned the Clinton adminstration and congress about the dangers of unregulated [...]

I went to a town hall meeting in suburban New Orleans recently. It was sponsored by Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter. I think I was the only one of the roughly 500 people in the building in favor of a public option. Yet, it seemed to me that about least 75% of the people in the room were already part of a public or government plan, whether as veterans or as Medicare recipients.

Transition Towns are communities of people throughout the world dedicated to responding to the challenges and opportunities of peak oil and climate change.

Behind the banner of free-market capitalism, they marched toward their mission. Armed with degrees in economics, management, and finance, the Friedmanite masses moved forward at a reckless

An American woman, known only as Peace Pilgrim, walked more than 25,000 miles across the U.S.A. in the name of peace. Talking about her childhood upbringing she said the following:”On the one hand I was trained to believe that