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Schechter: Report from the Epicenter of Fraudclosures

Commentary, October, 18 2010 Danny Schechter
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In all of the economic issues we are dealing with, there is always a “back story, a deeper context” that is usually missing, “disappeared” like those Allende supporters in Chile in the l970’s who wanted to empower workers, not just rescue them whe...

Schechter: London Calling As The Economy Hovers On The Edge And Scholars Debate War And Terrorism

Commentary, September, 22 2010 Danny Schechter
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The British Capital pretty much looked like it did the last time I was here except for all the closed stores and businesses I passed on the way to the War and Media Conference that brought me here.

Schechter: A Lament For Labor Day

Commentary, September, 05 2010 Danny Schechter
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When your life and your work is as entwined as mine has been—fusing the personal and the political over all these years, it may be stretching things to consider yourself unemployed but that’s what I am as Labor Day approaches.

Schechter: Media Complicity in Financial Crimes

Commentary, September, 01 2010 Danny Schechter
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When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind the decisions of policymakers, market makers and media-makers, it’s easy to be dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

Schechter: As The Obama Economic Team Bails, The System Fails To Generate Jobs. Are The Causes, Um, “Structural?”

Commentary, August, 10 2010 Danny Schechter
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In Washington, the Obama economic team has sprung a leak. First, Budget Director Peter Orszag, the calculating numbers savant, bailed. And now, “distinguished” economist Christina Romer, the only woman in that inner circle boys club has quit too.

Schechter: Whither The “Economic Agenda?”

Commentary, August, 04 2010 Danny Schechter
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As we move into the dog days of summer, and a coming Congressional recess, the Obama Administration has shifted its focus back on to the economy and wants to convince one and all that an economic recovery is just around the corner.

Schechter: Wall Street Criminals

Commentary, July, 11 2010 Danny Schechter
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1500 Bankers went to Jail After the S&L Crisis. Almost None Today.

Schechter: Memories And Misery In CNN Land While Homeowners

Commentary, June, 20 2010 Danny Schechter
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Somehow, I can’t escape CNN. Last Saturday I joined Ted Turner, Wolf Blitzer and more than 300 current and former CNN employees at a celebration of the network’s 30th anniversary at the National Press Club in Washington. I was there as one of the ...

Schechter: Why We Barely Know What’s Going On

Commentary, June, 15 2010 Danny Schechter
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Defending America covertly has become an ongoing theme for one more TV series. Salute the flag and praise NBC (GE) for its latest effort to persuade the population to accept the kind of secret operations that now drive the war in Afghanistan. The...

Schechter: Obama Talks Left To Move Right As Wall Street Criminals Are Given A Free Pass And Reforms Are Watered Down

Commentary, June, 01 2010 Danny Schechter
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Is The President The Kind of Leader Chairman Mao Warned Us About?

Schechter: Will There Be A Criminal Case Against Goldman Sachs?

Commentary, May, 03 2010 Danny Schechter
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Will Goldman survive the assault? Will the threat of criminal charges being pursued against the world’s leading investment bank spill over onto others on Wall Street? Is the criminalization of the crisis underway, or is all this just a maneuver?

Schechter: Going After Goldman

Commentary, April, 20 2010 Danny Schechter
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Fox Business News was engrossed in interviewing a blonder than thou reality TV bimbo when the news that the Securities And Exchange Commission was filing fraud charges against Goldman Sachs broke on Friday afternoon.

Schechter: To Organize Against Wall Street, We Need A Narrative Focusing On Crime And Massive Fraud

Commentary, April, 15 2010 Danny Schechter
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In politics, it’s always all about the narrative, about how issues are framed.

Schechter: On The Seventh Anniversary of the War On Iraq: Spotty Coverage, A Few Protests, and A Desire to "Move On" To Make It All Disappear

Commentary, March, 21 2010 Danny Schechter
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American media loves anniversaries of major events. They become ideal "news pegs" to do follow-up stories. You would think that they would have pulled out the stops for the seventh anniversary of the US war on Iraq, a war that was described by the...

Schechter: What Are They Waiting for?

Commentary, March, 10 2010 Danny Schechter
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What will it take? What are they waiting for? What part of the reality of a systemic crisis that will get worse don't they get?

Schechter: It Was 20 Years Ago Today

Commentary, February, 12 2010 Danny Schechter
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It was 20 years ago Thursday February 11th when Nelson Mandela's Liberation Band began to play.

Schechter: Why Is The Haiti Disaster Response So Screwed Up

Commentary, January, 18 2010 Danny Schechter
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Every disaster plan is built to some degree around the idea of triage-deciding who can and cannot be saved. The worst cases are often separated and allowed to perish so that others who are considered more survivable can be treated.

Schechter: Old Problems Remain In New Year: No, Virginia, The Economy Is Not Getting Better As Banks Still Rule

Commentary, January, 05 2010 Danny Schechter
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It's a new week, a new year, and some, erroneously believe a new decade. What's not new is the stranglehold the banks have on our economy quietly stashing more billions for more bonuses while still restricting the flow of credit. Bad loans have be...

Schechter: The Decade Is Still With Us: Look To The Future, Not The Past

Commentary, December, 30 2009 Danny Schechter
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Lets drop all the decade hype. I know we tend to structure history in ten year swallows: The 60's, the 70's, the 80's etc. It is all so neat and so clean but, alas, not quite true.

Schechter: Congo Communique: Obama Denounces Rape But Washington Has Yet To Do Much About It, As War Bleeds Central Africa

Commentary, December, 18 2009 Danny Schechter
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After a week in Kinshasa talking about war in Congo, it was time to see it, or at least visit its epicenter in the East. This is where rape is used as a weapon of war, where rebel groups challenge government forces militarily and occupy territory....

Schechter: Congo Communique: Patrice, The Martyr, Ali The "Killer" And Tales From Central Africa

Commentary, December, 10 2009 Danny Schechter
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I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone an...

Schechter: Get Hip, Learn To Fear The Double-Dip---Barack Obama Does!

Commentary, November, 30 2009 Danny Schechter
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Today, the same expression is being used to warn us that the recession we are still struggling with could, and is supposedly posed for recovery could fall even deeper into another dip. That d word seems to be a substitute for another-a depression.

Schechter: Hedge Fund Perps Walk Free From Criminal Trial

Commentary, November, 25 2009 Danny Schechter
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Danny Schechter Reports On How The Prosecutors Blew The First Big Case

Schechter: What's The Word In Johannesburg As Financial Crisis Rocks "The Rainbow Nation" Hopes For Progress?

Commentary, November, 11 2009 Danny Schechter
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There was lots of skepticism when I came to South Africa two years ago to show my film IN DEBT WE TRUST. While my critique of consumer debt resonated, the film's forecast of a financial crisis didn't. Their economy seemed to be doing well and it w...

Schechter: Downrising

Commentary, October, 27 2009 Danny Schechter
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Even as calls for an UPRISING against the practices of the big banks are being made, something else has begun to happen: a DOWNRISING has begun with members of the industry, prominent financial media outlets, and government officials beginning to ...

Schechter: As The Big Banks Post Record Profits And Pay Out Obscene Bonuses, What Should We The People Do: Stand Up Or Roll Over?

Commentary, October, 21 2009 Danny Schechter
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On February 1, 1960, four students sat down at a lunch counter at the former Woolworth's store in Greensboro North Carolina...

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