If you liked this film please visit our site, donate or buy the dvd: http://www.theamericandreamfilm.com The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you’ve been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows [...]

El fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, promete revelar un paquete de documentos secretos del disco duro de un ejecutivo de un gran megabanco estadounidense. En 2009, dijo a Computer World que ese banco es el Bank of America (BofA). En 2010 dijo a Forbes que la información era suficientemente importante para “derribar [...]

Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him to drop out of Harvard, and tortured him when he returned to finish his degree. It plagued him after he received his doctorate from Columbia and [...]

Looming losses from the mortgage scandal dubbed “foreclosuregate” may qualify as the sort of systemic risk that, under the new financial reform bill, warrants the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks. The Kanjorski amendment allows federal regulators to pre-emptively break up large financial institutions that—for any reason—pose a threat to U.S. financial or economic stability. Although downplayed [...]

The unspoken ideological taboo in most public discussion of the economic crisis prohibits seeing or treating the problem as systemic, as a problem of capitalism as a system. Instead, our political, journalistic, and academic leaders mostly see only symptoms and "develop policies" only for those symptoms. Alarms about one symptom -- and contested efforts to address it -- soon shift to another symptom and "policy responses" for it. Often such policies for one symptom actually worsen another symptom. Today's alarms focus on housing and huge government subsidies there. To see the systemic problems of the US housing industry, consider its basic economics.

May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right to housing. With the millions of homeless living in our communities and the millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together. Organizations across the US are engaging in "housing liberation" and "housing defense" to exercise their human rights to housing. Here are a few examples.

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: The Guardian The Obama administration’s latest proposal to help ‘underwater’ homeowners shows how little has been learned from the crisis by Dean Baker March 29, 2010 Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and the rest of the crew running economic policy somehow could not see the housing bubble as it grew to [...]

Source: Robert Reich’s Blog by Robert Reich November 29, 2009 One out of four homeowners is now under water, owing more on their homes than the homes are worth. Why? The biggest single factor behind the housing crisis is rising unemployment. According to the latest ABC-Washington Post poll, one out of every three Americans has either lost their [...]

The Super Rich are Laughing by Paul Craig Roberts October 22, 2009 The US has every characteristic of a failed state. The US government’s current operating budget is dependent on foreign financing and money creation. Too politically weak to be able to advance its interests through diplomacy, the US relies on terrorism and military aggression. Costs are out of control, and [...]

by Chris Adams October 4, 2009 WASHINGTON — The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that’s on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of the very companies that judges or regulators have cited in recent years for abusive mortgage practices. The firms, called mortgage servicers, have been cited for badgering, manipulating [...]