[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Come Saturday Morning: Thursday’s Dow — Not Exactly an Argument for Privatization
- After a week in which financial markets worldwide lost ground waiting to see if Greece’s downfall was going to take the fragile recovery along with it, one thing ought to be crystal-clear by now: There is no way in hell that anyone should be talking, secretly or otherwise, about taking our money out of Social Security and giving it to Pete Peterson’s fellow Wall Streeters to “keep safe” for us. Whether triggered by a “glitch” or emblematic of deeper problems that can’t be simply explained or wished away, the massive sell-off shows just how unsafe Wall Street really is.
… the people who blew up the economy in the first place want us to trust them with what little financial security we have left? I don’t think so.
Call the House and/or Senate at (202) 224-3121 and get a hold of your elected representatives.
- McClatchy Resists Pentagon Intimidation, Still Names Interrogator
- On Thursday, the Pentagon banned four reporters from further on-site reporting of military commission trials at Guantanamo, because they published the previously known name of a witness that the Pentagon was trying to present as anonymous. The impact of this assault on press freedom can be seen immediately in the corporate news coverage of this event, as only McClatchy continues to name the witness in its coverage of the banning.
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