Category: financial crisis

October 30, 2008

Iceland: The Canary in the neo-con Coalmine

This retelling of the financial situation in Iceland is direct and honest and clearly illustrates how what happened in Iceland over the last 4-5 years can easily happen in most other developed countries. The main point:  we’ve abdicated our social and financial control to non-governmental and non-democratic organizations that could care less about the welfare of the states that they impose their ‘rules’ on. I’ve […]

October 28, 2008

How pirates fashioned our financial crisis

For those of you who don’t read the Star, I thought this was a great piece , as it added a very unique spin to the whole financial crisis and why our corporations are the way that they are. After seeing The Corporation several years ago, I understood their point that there was some kind of psychosis that was driving this institution.  However, when you […]