Category: Politics

October 19, 2008

Financial Crisis Followup: Blackwater to Help with Evictions

Now that most real estate lies in the hands of the American government, it won’t be long before Blackwater comes knocking on the door of those who are trying to make one last go at holding on to their homes. Eviction notices will be deliverd by one of the world’s largest and fierce mercenary armies, thanks to a lot of funding during the Iraq war, […]

October 19, 2008

Questions Related to Financial 9/11

This article poses a number of questions related to what’s being called the Financial 9/11. At the root of the questions lies a great mistrust of the speed at which things ‘had to be done’.  Were financial markets unravelling because the people behind them were inept or because the regulations had been stripped so raw by free-market fundamentalists or because there was some other deep-seated […]