By Peter Daniels, WSWS.ORG
15 May 2012

The deathwatch that has been playing out over the century-old New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf appears to be drawing to a close. The firm, itself the product of a high-profile merger of two law firms in 2007, until recently had 1,300 lawyers… Read full post »

Andre Damon and Barry Grey, WSWS.ORG

Dimon: "What me worry?"

The economic and political fallout from JPMorgan Chase’s sudden announcement last Thursday night that it lost more than $2 billion from speculative bets on credit derivatives continued to grow on Monday. The biggest US ba… Read full post »

By George Milton, Hipographia

Just a post to show my readers a classical (and all-too-common) example of smooth apology for capitalism, with the media, in this case, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, hardly raising any objections to the verborrhea of lies. (The time for polite is over, media people. He… Read full post »

It’s bad enough that the banks strangled the Dodd-Frank law. Even worse is the way they did it – with a big assist from Congress and the White House.
 

Obama: slickest of the slick. The backdoor stab his specialty.

by Matt Taibbi

Special Dispatch

A CASE FOR VIOLENT REVOLT IN EUROPE

The exemplary Greeks march in protest against the plutocracy’s moves to impose “austerity.”

(Gaither Stewart in Rome) |||  Under a hot May sun, Italy’s neo-Communists marched through the streets of Rome last Satur… Read full post »

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The most expensive Presidential election of all time? That came over a century ago, in 1896, when America’s original Populists endorsed a young Democrat off the Great Plains who had championed a federal income… Read full post »

    ◦    By Karen Greenberg
    ◦    Suggested by Contrib. Ed Paul Carline

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly holds pieces of a pipe bomb confiscated from alleged terrorist Jose Pimentel last month; the FBI reportedly had misgivings about the NYPD’s use of an informer in the plo… Read full post »

JPChase's chief Dimon: son and grandson of stockbrokers, he's got the Wall Street disease in his blood. Among the highest compensated executives in the world. What's a billion here and a billion there?

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., t… Read full post »

Bill Van Auken, WSWS.ORG
Thank you, WSWS.ORG
There’s simply no limit to the criminal hypocrisy of the American government.

Syria's Assad: The imperialist noose keeps tightening and he may end up like Gaddafi.

 “Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point  Read full post »

By Patrick Martin, WSWS.ORG
Thank you, WSWS.ORG

Dimon: Poster boy for the global predator class. Vociferous enemy of regulation, and a Democrat.

Speculation by a derivatives trader in London has produced a $2 billion trading loss for the US financial services giant JP Morgan Chase, the bank ack… Read full post »

By Joseph Kishore, WSWS.ORG
Thank you, WSWS.OR

Obama’s announcement Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage has been quickly elevated by the American liberal establishment and the media into a watershed moment in his presidency.

The president announced on ABC News that, “for me person… Read full post »

With pre-approved candidates by the nation’s plutocracy the system allows no true choices to the electorate, a fact that makes American elections something of a broad daylight farce. Yet the masses remain passive about such an imposture or get reliably passionate about the pseudo election in r

… Read full post »

By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ
Opinion—The New York Times
Suggested by Gloria Stevenson

What’s come over the New York Times?  All, of a sudden—maybe to deflect critics who have long claimed the Grey Lady is a stealthy manipulator of news in support of a bankrupt status quo (a notion we endors… Read full post »

Bill talks to RoseAnn DeMoro, who heads the largest registered nurses union in the country, and will lead a Chicago march protesting economic inequality on May 18. DeMoro is championing the Robin Hood Tax, a small government levy the financial sector would pay on commercial transactions like/… Read full post »

By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com

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The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think… Read full post »

By Debra Sweet

The world upside down is the natural reality of a gargantuan system based on lies.

Rahm Emanuel: a ruthless enforcer for Clinton and now Obama, currently filling the post of Mayor of Chicago.

The most heavily armed empire in world history occupies and has destroyed… Read full post »