MEDIA ROOTS — Freddie Mac, aka the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, is one of America’s largest mortgage-insurance companies, chartered in 1970 by the federal government “to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing market.” However, the mortgage giant recently invested $5 billion in complex securities that pay when mortgage holders are unable to refinance and take advantage … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Doug McKenty of KZYX interviews economist John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The Secret History of the American Empire, and Hoodwinked about the politics of economic hitmen, predatory capitalism, banksters, and much more. Perkins also discusses his experiences with the Peace Corps, indigenous consciousness, socioeconomic solutions, and why the 99% are Occupying.MR***
MEDIA ROOTS- In an empirical study using complex systems analysis models, mathematical theorists in Zurich have revealed the architecture of transnational corporations’ (TNCs) interconnectedness. The report bolsters the charges made of late by the Occupy Wall Street Movement touting society’s obscene inequality—1% of the population owns almost half of all U.S. wealth. This study’s findings, an uncanny correlative of the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Abby Martin from Media Roots reports the news for Project Censored’s KPFA morning show about the Verizon worker strikes and the role that multinational corporations have in Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The segment features an interview with Dalit Baum, founder of “Who Profits from the Occupation”, an activist research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace in … Read More
