Anyone who has spent even a short period of time in California’s cities will immediately notice the homelessness crisis that has grown to stunning proportions in recent years. The “explanation” that’s often thrown around is that people who become homeless travel to the Golden State, where, presumably, the mild weather blunts some of the difficulties […]
Nomi Prins on the Banks That Run the World (Audio and Transcript)…
In this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” host and Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer talks with Nomi Prins about her latest and, in Scheer’s words, “most ambitious” book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.” The two discuss the 2008 financial crisis and the disconnect between governments and the governed, as well as Prins’ […]
NYT Chides Obama Ever So Gently for Betraying His Own Words…
The editorial board of The New York Times published a piece Monday under the headline, “The Cost of Barack Obama’s Speech.” The piece discusses the $400,000 price tag on the former president’s scheduled speaking engagement on Wall Street. Beginning with a quote by Obama himself on how fundraising disconnected him from the people he began […]
Hints of Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying Rise from Blacklist Case…
Last month, the Washington Post gave a glowing front-page boost to an anonymous online blacklist of hundreds of American websites, from marginal conspiracy sites to flagship libertarian and progressive publications…the anonymous website argued that all of them should be investigated by the federal government…for Russian propaganda…