By Tom Burghardt – Antifascist Calling… While Barack Obama’s “favorite banker” continues to receive the royal treatment in Washington, new sleaze allegations threaten to further tarnish the golden boy image of “teflon don” Jamie Dimon, the CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. Wearing multiple hats, Dimon is the Chairman of The Business Council, a long-time [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… Paraguay’s April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy “tobacco magnate,” rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of “state capture” by powerful drug cartels linked to US intelligence agencies. Did you like this? Share [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… In October 2005, at the height of the speculative financial bubble that eventually cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and devastated millions of lives, Citigroup Equity Strategy analysts Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod and Narendra Singh published their provocative, though accurate portrayal of bourgeois amorality, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances. [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… One indelible sign of state capture by pirate corporations and the financial jackals holding sway on Wall Street and the City of London is the ease with which former “regulators” slip into plum positions with the firms whom they supposedly “regulated” as “public servants.” While the drone kill-crazy Obama [...]
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. Today, the Obama administration was quick to blame Hamad Karzai- the puppet president of Afghanistan for his remarks of “ America colluding with the Talaban.” Talabans are not intruders but native people and political organization of Afghanistan. America and its allies are aggressors and are called occupation forces. The crucial [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. — Al Capone In Reckless Endangerment, a lively exposé of the frauds at the heart of the subprime meltdown, journalists Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner wrote that if “mortgage originators [...]
By Frank Lamb. Republished from Information Clearing House. Photo: Azadi Tower in Tehran courtesy of Children of Persia Tehran — Azadeh, a graduate law student from Tehran University, on the sidelines of Iran’s Third Annual Hollywoodism (www.hollywoodism.orghttp) reminded her interlocutors, of the obvious damming admissions last week by two US politicians: “It would be a [...]