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Elizabeth Warren Citibank owns Obama administration

Elizabeth Warren: Citibank owns Obama administration

December 16, 2014 Madonna Gauding Banks, Democrats, Obama 22 comments

In one of the most astonishing speeches ever given from the senate floor, progressive Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren, called out the Obama administration for being a wholly owned subsidiary of Citibank.

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Real unemployment rate

A closer look at the 5.9% unemployment rate

December 4, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Employment One comment

If you dig around the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website, you will learn that 20 percent of American families do not have a single person employed and 41 percent of all civilian, working-age Americans are without a job.

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Russell Brand analyzes Obama’s ISIS/ISIL war speech

September 22, 2014 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Obama, War One comment

When I watched Obama’s first speech on his plans to go after ISIS (now ISIL), I felt physically ill. As I watched his strange

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Council on Foreign Relations: West is responsible for Ukraine crisis

September 4, 2014 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, International, War Leave a comment

Given the ongoing, ludicrous, and mostly fictional coverage of Ukraine in the American media that relentlessly depicts Vladimir Putin as an evil, crazed, aggressive,

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Which country is the greatest threat to world peace?

July 29, 2014 Madonna Gauding Congress, Obama, Terrorism, Uncategorized, War Leave a comment

At the close of 2013, WIN/Gallup published the results of a massive world opinion poll in which they asked over 66,000 people from 65

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Alternative views on Ukraine and the downing of MH-17

July 25, 2014 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, War Leave a comment

For more credible views on current events, I look to independent scholars and independent investigative journalists who are not employed by corporate media, either

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Suing over executive orders: Politics as usual

July 9, 2014 Arthur Lieber Congress, Obama, Politics One comment

There’s an adage that all politics is local. It makes a lot of sense; most issues are bread and butter ones that occur in

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Iraq: Who is behind ISIS?

July 7, 2014 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Uncategorized, War 3 comments

Mainstream media tells us that ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) is a sort of “al Qaeda Gone Wild”—an army of well-equipped,

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Dangerous beliefs: US moral superiority and our right to world hegemony

June 19, 2014 Madonna Gauding Banks, Campaigns, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Obama, Politics, War 3 comments

[by Madonna Gauding] In the windowless rooms of American corporate media, the assumption of U.S. hegemony is echoed on the alphabet TV channels and

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Global derivatives markets 20 percent larger than before the crash

June 3, 2014 Madonna Gauding Banks, Democrats, Economy, Financial reform, Obama One comment

What’s a derivative? The word “derivative” may ring a bell because Wall Street speculation in “innovative financial instruments” such as derivatives, helped tank the economy

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