Monday, November 30:

Chaz Valenza: 'Use Cash Movement' to Ignite a Monetary Revolt (5 comments) Transaction by transaction, we can deprive Big Banking of their lifeblood: fees, penalties and interest. Join the movement: USE CASH. It's a first step to banking and monetary reform.

Saturday, November 28:

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: New push in Venezuela's agrarian reform arouses violent verbal PR reaction A recent push by the Agriculture & Lands (MAT) Ministry and the National Lands Institute (INTI) to recover more land for peasants in Guarico State and Lake Maracaibo South Bank has aroused a violent verbal and PR reaction by ranchers and opposition media, accusing the government of imitating Richard Mugabe's land grab of farms belonging to white farmers in Zimbabwe.

Chaz Valenza: A Simple Plan to Screw Big Banking. Use Cash. (23 comments) Use Cash: a low-tech, easy, effective, and unstoppable way to fight Big Banking abuse. Every cash transaction snatches a dime, a dollar, thirty-five dollars, a hundred dollars or more out of the greedy, blood soaked hands of Big Banking. Each transaction denied is a cut. Together it's death by a billion cuts daily.

Friday, November 27:

Arthur Shaw: Venezuelan revolutionaries in 2008 have given a dazzling performance "Administration" is a kind of takeover on entities that doesn't necessarily entail expropriation with payment of fair compensation or confiscation without such compensation ... many options are available in an administration ...

Wednesday, November 25:

Noeline Clayfield: CLIMATEGATE & POTENTIAL RELEASE OF FREE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY There has been very little media coverage of the recent release of information hacked from Global Warming Facility CRU, Anglia, UK,which has blown open the fraudulent activities of secret government and corporation promoting global warming and climate change. Now there is the potential release of free energy technology hidden and ignored for the last 100 years.

P. Orin Zack: Short Story: "A Hard Box to Think Outside Of" (13th in a series) If corporations were convicted for their crimes, how much of the economy would survive? If those crimes included bribing public officials with campaign money, how much of the government would survive? Sure, we might eventually end up with something better, but what do we do in the meantime? If the scam of fractional-reserve banking was shut down, how would you buy your groceries? Would there even be groceries? I'm just asking.

David Model: A Tax Increase for What? (2 comments) Two powerful members of Congress called for a war tax to pay for new troops to be deployed in Afghanistan. It is interesting that these two members of Congress are suggesting the unthinkable, a tax increase. When was the last time you heard a member of Congress call for a tax increase for healthcare, poverty, homelessness, veterans? Washington's priorities are defined by the urgency of this tax increase to support a war.

Saturday, November 28:

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams Now I know why Obama didn't sign the treaty banning landmines, so he and Wall Street could say to the poor and hungry of America, "Let them eat landmines."

Bob Herbert: Stacking the Deck Against Kids While Wall Street is handing out billions in bonuses, American families are struggling with joblessness, home foreclosures and rampant debt. The economic woes are exacting a fierce toll on family life, and children are taking a big hit — emotionally, psychologically and otherwise.

Wednesday, November 25:

Judge blasts bad bank, erases 525G debt A Long Island couple is home free after an outraged judge gave them an amazing Thanksgiving present -- canceling their debt to ruthless bankers trying to toss them out on the street.

Monday, November 30:

Eric Lotke: Obama's Jobs Summit and Bernanke's Reappointment: Connect The Dots How ironic that President Obama's jobs summit should be scheduled on the same date (Thursday, December 3) that the Senate Banking Committee has scheduled the reconfirmation hearing of Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke. Maybe someone can ask him about jobs.

Arab Emirates Move to Limit Crisis in Dubai Trying to prevent a run on its banks, and financial turmoil that some fear could spread globally, the United Arab Emirates helped calm financial markets Monday with its pledge to lend money to banks operating in Dubai, an action that came amid concerns about excessive borrowing around the world.

Sunday, November 29:

Johann Hari on Dubai: A morally bankrupt dictatorship built by slave labour Dubai should serve as an icon for what has become the predator capitalism of the 21st Century, wild architectural fantasies of lavish pleasure palaces and playgrounds for the rich and famous built on castles of speculative sand and the equivalent of modern slave labor, all of it collapsing like a house of cards as the economic winds shift and the weight of injustices grows.

Friday, November 27:

Dollar at a 14-Year Low Versus the Yen The dollar tumbled to a 14-year low against the yen on Thursday, reinforcing concern in Tokyo that America's already-strapped consumers would buy even fewer Japanese cars and gadgets.

David Fiderer: Rewriting History to Blame Tim Geithner: An Incomplete Story of the AIG Bailout (2 comments) Placing the blame on Geithner for problems with the AIG bailout suits those who want to oversimplify the problem, and deflect away culpability from the Bush Administration.

Thursday, November 26:

Dubai fails to stem market drop on debt fears Dubai's debt problems shook European banking shares on Thursday despite the emirate's efforts to minimise the impact of a debt restructuring plan at two of its biggest companies that raised fears of default. Wednesday's announcement sent the cost of insuring Dubai's debt against default soaring and bond prices tumbling.

Wednesday, November 25:

James Fox: Bank Foreclosure Prevention Program by Citi Up by 20 Percent The bank foreclosure prevention program of CitiMortgage has been improving significantly. CEO Sanjiv Das also said that the bank has started implementing principal reduction for some deserving borrowers.

Tuesday, November 24:

Danny Schechter: Will Christmas Save US? Can "Black Friday Rescue The Economy? Will Christmas Shopping and Black Friday Bail Out the ailing American Economy asks News Dissector Danny Schechter

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