Iranian warships are moving into the Mediterranean to shadow the US warships already there. Propaganda news is growing with rumors of Al Qaeda links with Iran, and, then, less speculative news about real links between the terror groups and the armed...

So wrote Rolling Stone 's Matt Taibbi in his 2010 takedown of Goldman Sachs -- the article that famously described the 143-year-old banking house as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into...

But a global standoff isn’t the only thing to be feared; a public that unquestioningly acquiesces to the prejudices of conventional wisdom is just as dangerous. —ARK Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone: There’s a weird set of internalized assumptions that...

US officials believe Iran sanctions will fail, making military action likely http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/17/u... And the MSM is doing its part. Matt Taibbi: Another March to War?

They have the appeal of miniatures; and the full-size photos show amazing detail. Rolling Stone – The Odd Couple: Romney vs. Gingrich – Matt Taibbi – Speaking of decaying houses, here's a tart analysis of the current candidates from the right. (A real...

Writing in Rolling Stone magazine, Matt Taibbi argues that the presidential race has become a ritualistic contest between “1 percent-approved,” corporate-funded candidates, who aren’t necessarily right for the job. And this time, he thinks the public...

February 9, 2012, 7:00 am Then we move on to the reality that the Dodd-Frank bill does not, in fact go far enough in controlling these gangsters. Take a deeper look at all the exemptions in the bill and that the banks can still operate on what was once...

The president is accepting the challenge. It's time for progressives to say, 'Okay, he's moving with us now, he's using resources of government to aggressively pursue the malefactors of great wealth,' as Teddy Roosevelt put it."

That was stripped away in 2008 when the firm converted to a bank one week after smaller rival Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy and accepted a $10 billion rescue from the Treasury Department -- led at the time by Henry Paulson, Blankfein’s...

Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi dubbed the firm “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” in a 2009 article. An interview Blankfein granted to London’s Sunday Times that year backfired when the paper splashed his sarcastic quip that...

Everybody on Wall Street is talking about the new piece by New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, entitled "The End of Wall Street as They Knew It." When I read things like this I’m simultaneously amazed by two things. bbosker Hello 1950! 'Tell stories...

February 7, 2012, 10:58 am Rolling Stone Publication: by Matt Taibbi So there was big news yesterday on the foreclosure settlement front. We still have to wait and see what the final deal looks like, but there are reports out that the long-awaited...

People want to go someplace for at least five minutes where no one is trying to bleed you or sell you something. It may not be a real model for anything, but it's at least a place where people are free to dream of some other

No matter how many times you ring the bell, those poor animals are never going to figure out how to move that pallet of bananas – yet they keep trying, taking the sorry show from one state to the next, over and over, as if something is going to change.

It is important to note that any recent improvement in terms has come at the cost of Schneiderman moving from being decidedly against the settlement to being in the “maybe/maybe not” camp as an apparent part of his decision to join an Administration...

Add to that the formation documents for MERS and the Pooling and Servicing agreements for the REMICs and you have a case that is VERY easy for a judge and jury to understand. Even the normally laser visioned Matt Taibbi doesn’t get it. He thinks that...

Laguna Beach, California – “I don’t know much about the stock market,” says Matt Taibbi, the witty critic of Goldman Sachs and other financial atrocities, “but when the O’Neills of the world start telling me what a great investment opportunity the...

I’m a huge fan of his writing and think he has done more to cause the big bank banks discomfort than any single writer. But even someone as skilled as Taibbi occasionally has the writing equivalent of a bad hair day. And his post, “A Victory for the...

So there was big news yesterday on the foreclosure settlement front. We still have to wait and see what the final deal looks like, but there are reports out that the long-awaited settlement is a far, far better deal for the public than expected. If...