Video - Rolling Stone executive editor on illegal Psy-Ops story - Feb. 24, 2011
Also appearing is Bing West, the former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Reagan, marine combat veteran, and author, who delivers an intelligent advocacy for ending the war in Afghanistan.
ABC Video - Jonathan Karl - June 2010
To demonstrate how quickly the national debt is growing, we are posting this clip that aired on ABC eight months ago when the debt first crossed $13 trillion. We are now past $14 trillion. Excellent reporting from Jonathan Karl, including hypocrisy from Harry Reid that confirms what you already know.
HAMP isn't working and actually serves to entrap borrowers into foreclosure, by the millions in fact, which makes this the smart and correct policy decision. But politics is about perception, and this is not a good headline. For anyone.
Video - Cenk on Goldman's AIG lies - Jan. 27, 2011
This is yet one more instance in which a few intrepid reporters and bloggers have more on the ball than the SEC, FINRA, and the Department of Justice combined.
This is outstanding as usual from Taleb.
Bernanke, Greesnpan, Fed incompetency, qe2, inflation, debt and deficits.
Crisis In Dairyland - Stewart on the Wisconsin union protests - Feb. 22, 2011
Don't assume anything before you watch this. Stewart attacks both sides for melodrama and the media for revolutionary hyperbole, in a thorough look at the events in Wisconsin.
An Army psy-ops unit operating out of Kabul, Afghanistan, was ordered to target visiting American dignitaries, including Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Al Franken, as well as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings reports.
This makes intuitive sense considering the $32 billion size of the Libyan SWF. Billionaire Ponzi schemers need access to real money occasionally, and Middle Eastern SWFs are habitual targets. Appropriately, Madoff and Stanford now reside in the same North Carolina prison, though the story would be exponentially more rewarding had either scammer actually been successful in conning a few billion from the opiate-addled Libyan dictator.
Feb 25, 2011 at 4:24 PM
