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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill Pitt gets mentioned in article co-authored by Bill Moyers!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/hillary-clintons-wall-str_1_b_7622148.htmlYet, you could also wonder if they had been unaware of another possible reading of the metaphor presented by the sight of Roosevelt Island against the skyline of Wall Street -- something her handlers didn't intend: A mockery of the words she was speaking at that very minute.
She is, after all, a favorite of the giant banks, the CEOs and hedge funds she now was castigating. Between 2009 and 2014, Clinton's list of top twenty donors starts out with Citigroup and includes JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, whose chief Lloyd Blankfein has invested in Clinton's son-in-law's boutique hedge fund. These donors are, as the website Truthout's William Rivers Pitt notes, "The ones who gamed the system by buying politicians like her and then proceeded to burn the economy down to dust and ash while making a financial killing in the process."
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)If I were in New Hampshire this evening...
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)families. It's the 1% vs. the 99%.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)for all of us. Climate change is on the high end of the curve and we desperately need to do some thing besides shove bad 'trade' deals down peoples throats.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)This is a literal MUST READ.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)need to buy a used copy.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Her intelligence and the depth of her insight is matched only by her powerful, vivid and lucid writing. She is a gem.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)feel a little guilty, the shock doctrine is on my reading list waiting for me to get to it.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)When some future historian writes the story of the 20th Century, he or she will doubtless mention Milton Friedman in the same sentence with Stalin, Hitler and Mao when the topic is "people who did the most damage to the world."
F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)I'm not so sure about that.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Thanks for sharing this, antigop.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,678 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Thanks, antigop! I would have missed this entirely. Friday foghead and all.
Cheers!
antigop
(12,778 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)!!
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Bill Moyers is the bomb.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Moyers speaks truth and so do you.
The Vampire Squid's BFF. It is what it is.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)You must be proud. I know that would be so validating to me.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Owl
(3,643 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)economy down to dust and ash while making a financial killing in the process." Well said Will.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)"The ones who gamed the system by buying politicians like her and then proceeded to burn the economy down to dust and ash while making a financial killing in the process."
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)Bravo, Will Pitt, for the honor of being quoted!