Michael Moore Shows Scrappy Union Some Love in ‘Capitalism’
By Kari Lydersen / In These Times CHICAGO — Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, is an infuriating, somewhat terrifying and hilarious look at life and politics in the USA. It includes the creepy revelation that your employer may well hold a “Dead Peasants” life insurance policy on ...
Republic sit-in a highlight of Moore film
'CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY' | Workers who invited him to be on the inside attend screening By Dave Hoekstra / Chicago Sun-Times A month after the election of President Obama, 240 workers at the Republic Windows & Doors factory staged a six-day sit-in that culminated in a layoff package of ...
DealBook's Interview With Michael Moore
New York Times Not many people can lay claim to attempting a “citizen’s arrest” of the nation’s banking bosses. But it’s par for the course for Michael Moore, the controversial film maker whose latest documentary on the financial crisis takes a harsh look at capitalism — and Wall Street banks ...
By Leslie Felperin / Variety An Overture Films release of a Paramount Vantage, Overture Films presentation in association with the Weinstein Co., of a Dog Eat Dog production. (International sales: Paramount Vantage, Los Angeles.) Produced by Michael Moore, Anne Moore. Executive producers, Kathleen Glynn, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein. Co-producers, Rod ...
Another Record Month for Foreclosures in July
Homes in Foreclosure Up 7 Percent From June, According to RealtyTrac Report By Charlie Herman / ABC News Aug. 13, 2009 — Despite recent good news about increasing home sales and moderating price drops, there is still no relief in sight when it comes to foreclosures. RealtyTrac will report Thursday ...
Autos, banks spend $20M lobbying
By Silla Brush / HillAuto companies and eight of the country's biggest banks that received tens of billions of dollars in federal bailout money spent more than $20 million on lobbying Washington lawmakers in the first half of this year. General Motors, Chrysler and GMAC, the finance arm of GM, ...
Bailout Overseer Says Banks Misused TARP Funds
By Binyamin Appelbaum / Washington PostMany of the banks that got federal aid to support increased lending have instead used some of the money to make investments, repay debts or buy other banks, according to a new report from the special inspector general overseeing the government's financial rescue program. The ...
US Congressional group asks White House for Fed probe
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - In the latest political swing at the Federal Reserve, 14 Republican and 3 Democratic members of the House of Representatives on Friday asked the White House to investigate the U.S. central bank before granting it greater regulatory power. President Barack Obama has proposed making the ...
3 Reasons We Need an Economic Wake Up Call ...by Robert Kuttner
Huffington PostSeveral events of the past week should be a wake-up call to the Obama administration. Bottom line: the medicine isn't working. Stronger stuff is needed. Consider: The June Unemployment Numbers. The green-shoots school was expecting that the rising rate of unemployment would continue to slow, as it did in ...
Michael Moore sends up the bailout
By Alex Dobuzinskis / Reuters Filmmaker Michael Moore ("Fahrenheit 9/11," "SiCKO") is no fan of corporate chieftains. He showed it in 1989 movie "Roger & Me" when he skewered Roger Smith, then chief executive of General Motors, and in 1997 film "The Big One," in which he did the same ...
SEC charging ex-Countrywide CEO Mozilo with fraud
By Marcy Gordon and Greg Risling WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators on Thursday charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp., and two other company executives with civil fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission's civil lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, also ...
Banks Aiming to Play Both Sides of Coin
Industry Lobbies FDIC to Let Some Buy Toxic Assets With Taxpayer Aid From Own Loan Books By David Enrich, Liz Rappaport and Jenny / Wall Street Journal Some banks are prodding the government to let them use public money to help buy troubled assets from the banks themselves. Banking trade ...
Activist Financier 'Terrorizes' Bankers in Foreclosure Fight
By James R. Hagerty and Ruth Simon / Wall Street Journal Bruce Marks doesn't bother being diplomatic. A campaigner on behalf of homeowners facing foreclosure, he was on the phone one day in March to a loan executive at Bank of America Corp. "I'm tired of borrowers being screwed!" Mr. ...
"Bernie Madoff, Scapegoat" by Michael Moore (for Time magazine)
The following piece written by Michael Moore appears in this week's Time magazine (and in full at Time.com) as part of their annual "Time 100" issue highlighting their choices for "The World's Most Influential People." Elie Wiesel called him a "God." His investors called him a "genius." But, proving correct ...
Cindy Sheehan's SoapboxHere we are again in front of the Federal Reserve today demanding that the Robber Class change its “evil ways.” Thanks for coming out today, but chances that the Robber Class will shut down the Fed and coin money that is debt free and more egalitarian are slim ...
A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion? ...by Dean Baker
Truthout Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wants to have the government lend up to a trillion dollars to hedge funds, private equity, funds and the banks themselves to clear their books of toxic assets. The plan implies a substantial subsidy to the banks. It is likely to result in the disposal ...
Hedge Fund Paid Summers $5.2 Million in Past Year
By John D. McKinnon and T.W. Farnam / Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers received about $5.2 million over the past year in compensation from hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from major financial institutions. ...
Hundreds Rally on Wall St., Demanding Action to Combat Economic Crisis
By Alex Kane / Indypendent Channeling widespread populist anger at seemingly never ending bank bailouts and excessive executive compensation, hundreds of demonstrators converged on Wall St. this afternoon for a rally and march through the financial district, even as a steady rain continued throughout the day. Organized by the Bail ...
Activists protest bailouts near Wall Street
By Christine Kearney NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - Several hundred demonstrators protested near Wall Street on Friday against the handling of the U.S. economic crisis, government bailouts of private banks and corporations and bonuses paid out at insurer AIG. Members of worker rights, healthcare and anti-war groups gathered in ...
Wagoner's exit puts BofA CEO Lewis in hotseat
By Elinor Comlay NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis may be the next corporate boss to feel the heat after the administration forced General Motors Corp Chief Executive Rick Wagoner to resign in return for further government assistance. The second-largest U.S. bank has received ...
Anti-AIG demonstrations draw small, animated crowds
By Christine Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Small crowds of protesters angered by the government's $180 billion bailout of AIG marched in cities across the United States on Thursday, mocking bonuses paid to employees who helped push the company to the brink of collapse. The largest U.S. labor union, the ...
Top U.S., European Banks Got $50 Billion in AIG Aid
By Serena Ng and Carrick Mollenkamp / Wall Street Journal The beneficiaries of the government's bailout of American International Group Inc. include at least two dozen U.S. and foreign financial institutions that have been paid roughly $50 billion since the Federal Reserve first extended aid to the insurance giant. Among ...
Wall Street spent billions lobbying
By Thomas Grillo / Boston Herald The financial sector spent $5.1 billion in political influence-peddling over the past decade as lobbyists won deregulation that led to the nation's financial collapse, according to a new study. The report released yesterday, "Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America," found that ...
Ex-Leaders of Countrywide Profit From Bad Loans
By Eric Lipton / New York Times CALABASAS, Calif. — Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation's economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky loans to tens of thousands of Americans, helping set ...
Communities Slammed by Surge in Bank-Owned Homes
Real Estate Owned Properties Expected to Hit 1.5 Million By Mary Kane / Washington Independent Banks that received government bailout money are taking heat for spending billions of dollars on bonuses, executive pay, and lavish outings. But there's another outrage that Washington seems to be missing: The growing number of ...
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March 21st, 2013
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March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'Dirty Wars' by Jeremy Scahill
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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