The Coup Leaders hand down a new decree: the “Financial Stability Improvement Act” aka TARP on Steroids.

The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world’s biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20 billion to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing international efforts to ban them.

This is a brief excerpt from Matt Taibbi’s detailed reporting on the inner workings of the coup leaders during their hits on Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.

When you read the headlines about “pay czar crackdowns” and “clawbacks” and “reining in pay,” you should know that this whole Wall Street psychological operation is being run by the same man who sold us the Iraq war!

Here’s the follow-up to our Wall Street Economic Death Squad video. The US middle class has been hit by an economic deathblow…

Political “leadership” of the two oligarchy parties spin their economic policy as being for the public benefit. Professional economists increasingly cast economic policy in unprecedented harsh criticism, even calling for public demonstrations against what they claim as gross violations of financial law. Let’s consider current facts of high importance…

Here is the video featured in our report: The Wall Street Economic Death Squad. It features Congressional questioning from Representative Alan Grayson regarding trillions of dollars in Federal Reserve “off-balance sheet transactions,” with music by NIN and Jay Z.

The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Goldman Sachs, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such a magnitude entails is left out of the mainstream media, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.

The past few days have been very revealing when it comes to the financial coup that has occurred here in the US. Here’s a special report we have compiled which features the most recent information available concerning the takeover.

When reality is smacking you in the face, you have to eventually reach a point where you begin to act, where you fight back.

Reining in the financial industry’s power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought.

Tens of millions of the world’s poor will have their food rations cut or cancelled in the next few weeks because rich countries have slashed aid funding.

Watch SNL rip Obama for being all talk and no action.

The Democratic supermajority fails to pass a public option, but don’t worry. Senator Max Baucus will pay for your medical bills from the $3.2 million he’s received from the health care industry.

Obama promised change, but he is status quo politician - time to act accordingly.

They blew billions on wars and bailouts, but spending cash that actually helps people seems to bother politicians. Selective Deficit Disorder is a sickness of omission.

Estimates from organizers vary widely but numerous other antiwar, environmental and anti-poverty groups plan to demonstrate this Thursday and Friday in Pittsburgh to coincide with the meetings. In response, the city, after losing its law suits, has brought in approximately 4,000 extra police for the summit.

With the ES&S takeover of Diebold/Premier, their nearest competitor, the privately-run election Goliath now has an un-overseeable lock on virtually every election in the United States of America.

Bank of America rewards loyalty by repeatedly raising interest rates. Is it time for a debtor’s revolt?

If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists.