2011 September | American Pendulum

Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis: "Nobody Got Rich on His Own"

Posted by admin Economy, National News/Opinion Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

I hear all this, oh this is class warfare, no! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for…

There Must Be 50 Ways to Leave the Military Industrial Complex

Posted by admin World Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

David Swanson- And we heard all of them from two dozen brilliant speakers during a three-day conference this past weekend. If you missed it, the video is all online. So is the text of many of the papers presented.

The 20 Top Debtor Nations: Europe in the Lead

Posted by admin Top Stories Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

European nations are among the top debtor nations in the world, with Ireland coming in as Number 1. See the chart for the rest…

Obama's Re-Election Chances May be Fading, and So What?

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Sherwood Ross-Under Mr. Obama’s tyrranical stewardship, the U.S. empire is expanding abroad as its policies are pauperizing Americans at home. Only yesterday, the New York Times reported more than one in three young families with children, 37 percent, are living in poverty..With a Congress made up primarily of the well-to-do, if not the millionaire class, and who are willing handmaidens of the corporate elite, USA is no longer a government of, by and for the people. The people wrote in 100 to one against a bailout and Congress ignored them.

A Revolutionary Idea for a Revolutionary Time: A Plan of Action for the Global Political Awakening

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Andrew Gavin Marshall-If you study mice in a maze, no matter for how long you may do so, you cannot ever hope to understand the mouse outside of the context of the maze itself. The mouse or mice you study and observe are products of that maze, as they are confined within it and their lives dictated by its walls and parameters. Therefore, you can never hope to conclude a true ‘nature’ of the mouse through observing it in such circumstances. Only when you break the walls of the maze and erase its foundations, thus freeing the mice to their own devices, can you even begin to understand the nature and potential of the mouse. This is the perspective we must come to understand in regards to humanity.

Morgan Stanley Is Warning Of A 'POWERFULLY NEGATIVE REACTION' If FOMC Disappoints

Posted by admin Economy Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Morgan Stanley strategist Greg Peters is nervous about tomorrow’s FOMC statement

Max Keiser: Dollar-Trapped

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss Babyface Bernanke, Eurotarp and ‘rogue traders.’ In the second half of the show Max talks to Bill Still, director of The Money Masters & The Secret of Oz, about Fort Knox, state banks and monetary reform.

Inequality could cause American Spring

Posted by admin Featured Media Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

While Obama is trying to find ways to fix the US economy, there is a growing gap between the haves and have-nots. Hundreds of Americans turned up recently in New York to protest Wall Street greed. Some predict that this could be the beginning America’s own Arab Spring. David Degraw, author and journalist, shares his own opinion with RT’s Kristine Frazao.

Black Tuesday

Posted by admin Featured Media Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Black Tuesday is a mesmerizing historical novel that captures the romance and desperation of New York City on the brink of the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929. From the beleaguered immigrant community of the Lower East Side to the feral pit of Wall Street and the alluring glitter of Park Avenue, Nomi Prins pens a vibrant world of deception, obsession, greed and economic devastation. Probing the complex intersections of class, family loyalty, passion, and the tragic consequences of lies, greed, and power, Black Tuesday is an epic saga of a turbulent era with a compelling heroine, that shines a revealing light on our current times.