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

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.

Eliot Spitzer: If the Angelides commission issues subpoenas to investigate these five questions and promises to set these documents before the public, we will know it is for real and will serve a genuine public purpose.

George Carlin on how Big Business and Wall Street run the country and screw over working class taxpayers: “The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care…”

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…

What trader in his right mind decides to dump his money into a glorified black hole, taking on unlimited risk in the process, for minuscule returns? The banks should have been made to drop off an envelope at the taxpayer’s doorstep every month.

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 insurance industry is the major problem in health care and Americans know it, but the Democrats are on the verge of forcing Americans to buy insurance while failing to solve America’s health care crisis.

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.

Lobbyist out, lobbyist in. It’s why they always win. They’re been plowing this ground for years, but with the broad legislative agenda of the Obama White House - health care, energy, financial reform, the Employee Free Choice Act and more - the soil has never been so fertile.

Protesters’ signs carried Obama-specific barbs: “Change? What Change?” “The Audacity of War Crimes.” “Yes We Can: U.S. Out of Afghanistan.” Several of the demonstrators had T-shirts showing a missile labeled “Obomba” and the question “Is it really OK if Obama does it?”

These are literally people who are paying off our government to make sure they don’t have to compete, whether it’s the too-big-to-fail banks or in this case the health insurance companies…

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.

Over 210 people were swept up and arrested, as authorities fired rubber bullets, beanbags, pepper spray, OC gas and deployed a new sound weapon to suppress citizen protest at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

Brave New Films teams up with Senator Sanders to expose how Congress is a tool of the corporate elite.