1. America\'s Economic Misery Index
(Newsletter)

...US justice department has asked a federal court to force Swiss bank UBS to turn over the account information of US taxpayers who may be using offshore accounts to evade federal income taxes. CONTINUE...

2. Goldman Sachs posts massive profits
(News/Economy)

...owards compensation during the first nine months of 2009. Bonus controversy Goldman has repaid the $10bn in US taxpayers' money that it received under the US government Troubled Asset Relief Progr...

3. Dow Jones soars past 10,000 mark
(News/Economy)

...he market has come since a year ago when investors fled collapsing financial markets. Bonuses back A year after US taxpayers committed hundreds of billions of dollars to bailing out financial firms, e...

4. New speech by President Obama for real change
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...ur planet.   [One can hope; if not Obama, then maybe another US president but only when and if more/enough US taxpayers wake –up to how they are being fleeced and cause the change... that is our ...

5. The U.S. Federal Budget Pipeline
(Opinions/Politic)

...inancial institutions and the ever present resource wars as a way to jumpstart the American economy, as well as US taxpayers who are watching 73 % of every tax dollar going to military expenditures (5...

6. The two faces of President Obama
(Editor/Editorial)

...re has been committed not just by the CIA, but by the military and contractors, foreign and domestic, paid with US taxpayers’ funds.  Torture and other major crimes committed, directly or indirec...

7. Arming Terrorist Israel
(Opinions/op-ed)

...trip has been equipped to a large extent by US-supplied weapons, munitions and military equipment paid for with US taxpayers’ money” What the report failed to indicate is that Israel had violated all ...

8. Halliburton's Army
(Opinions/Daily)

...his is a huge—I mean, this should be a much bigger story. AMY GOODMAN: This is money that comes from taxpayers, US taxpayers. So US taxpayers are bribing Nigerian officials, or they’re doing it in our...

9. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
(Opinions/op-ed)

...th this bailout legislation, Congress has taken pains to assure us that the whole business is a sure winner for us taxpayers. Section 134 of the act states:Upon the expiration of the 5-year period beg...

10. The Obama/McCain 'Jab' Game Continues
(Opinions/Politic)

...vestigated because they were taking money from Charles Keating of the 1989 savings and loan scandal. That cost us taxpayers more than $3 billion, and that was a gob of money back then!" "He...