Accidentally Released – and Incredibly Embarrassing Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in ‘Naked Short Selling‘ By Matt Taibbi May 16, 2012 “Rolling Stone” - It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped [...]
3 April 12 The Farce Of The “Golden Age Of Gas” Oil and gas industry insiders revealed earlier this year the high probability that we’re headed into a shale gas bubble. But that’s not what the industry’s CEOs and PRdepartments want you to hear. “The reality of at least 100 years’ worth of shale [...]
JUAN GONZALEZ: ”Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail” — that’s the name of the latest piece by Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi chronicling the remarkable history of the rise of Bank of America and how the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly helped keep the financial institution alive. The government support has come despite Bank of America’s [...]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock The Public Trial of Goldman Sachs The public reaction over this week’s Goldman Sachs revelations speaks volumes of the firm’s power and the public rage over its ethical lapses. March 14, 2012 | Goldman Sachs is having a bad PR moment. Very bad. And you can bet that the investment banking giant is [...]
Allow Failure To Fail Bank of America teetering on the edge of collapse By Matt Taibbi March 05, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — There are two things every American needs to know about Bank of America. The first is that it’s corrupt. This bank has systematically defrauded almost everyone with whom it [...]
Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg arrive at Marlborough Street magistrates court in London on 27 June 1973, to answer charges after the drugs raid. Photograph: Frank Barratt/Getty Images National Archives releases Met’s account of famous drugs bust, which conflicts with Rolling Stones guitarist’s own telling reddit this Alan Travis The Guardian, Thursday 3 November 2011 [...]
US had ‘frighteningly simplistic’ view of Afghanistan, says McChrystal Stanley McChrystal said the US and Nato were only 50% of the way to achieving their goals in Afghanistan. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP One of America’s most celebrated generals has issued a harsh indictment of his country’s campaign in Afghanistan on the 10th anniversary of the invasion [...]
Matt Taibbi on the Explosive Investigation Revealing the SEC’s Cover-Up of Wall Street‘s Crimes LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. In an interview with Amy Goodman, Matt Taibbi explains how the SEC has let the Wall Street bankers who created the [...]
It should almost be called Inconvenient Truth 2.0. Five years after Al Gore launched his original documentary project, the former vice-president returned on Tuesday with a new campaign aimed at exposing the full scale of the climate crisis. Gore’s Climate Reality project announced it would kick off with a 24-hour live streamed event on 14 September. [...]
Humans are natural-born storytellers, so lying is in our blood. Ian Leslie considers how this comes out in our art … Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called “Lying for a Living”. On the surviving footage, Brando [...]
Full Metal Racket Jake Whitney interviews Michael Hastings May 2011 The Rolling Stone reporter on his blockbuster articles, how the generals pushed Obama into a war he didn’t want to fight, and the Pentagon’s effort to tear down the wall between PR and propaganda. Photograph courtesy Lucian Read On January 17, 2007, Michael Hastings was [...]
This is a first rate article on the media and the Middle East it is written by, Nir Rosen, who is an American journalist who writes on current and international affairs. He has contributed to The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, among others. His latest book is Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim [...]
The Kill Team How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon Cpl. Jeremy Morlock with Staff Sgt. David Bram Share6803 By Mark Boal MARCH 27, 2011 10:00 PM [...]
