About: Gary Benoit
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What Happened to the Third-party Presidential Candidates?
During the presidential campaign, as well as on election night, the major media generally ignored the third-party candidates who threw their hats into...
Marriage Defined by California Voters
Voters in California approved their Ballot Proposition 8 by 52 percent to 48 percent, which amended the state constitution to define marriage as...
A.I.G. Burning Through Bailout Loan
The American International Group is burning through its $123 billion bailout loan quickly. According to Edward Liddy, the man brought in to restructure...
Companies Line Up for Bailout Bucks
With the federal government doling out $700 billion of Americans' hard-earned money under the new bank bailout law, a sizeable list of companies...
Greenspan Wrongly Faults Free Market for Crisis
In testimony that surprised many observers, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan professed a "state of shocked disbelief" over the unfolding global financial...
Global Financial Summit Announced
The Bush administration announced today that the first of what will be a series of global financial summits will be held in Washington,...
The Flat Tax Is Not Flat
The ideas of Karl Marx are alive and well — in the U.S. tax code. One of the planks of the Communist Manifesto,...
Fed Will Pump Another $540 Billion Into Economy
In its latest desperate move to head off the inevitable recession, the Federal Reserve announced Tuesday the creation of another new facility, the...
McCain-Obama Tax Debate Ignores Inflation Tax
Recently on the campaign trail, John McCain and Barack Obama have accused each other of offering tax proposals that would hurt the middle...
Media Cherry-picked Powell Interview Endorsing Obama
The major media have widely hyped Colin Powell's October 19 endorsement of Barack Obama for president. On that day's edition of the ABC...
NSA Wiretapped U.S. Soldiers’ Intimate Conversations
ABC's Nightline has broadcast a shocking interview with two former NSA clerks who were charged with recording and transcribing even intimate telephone conversations...
Global Financial Regulatory Body on the Way?
With the European Union leading the way, the internationalists are preparing to exploit the recent global financial turmoil to hold a "second Bretton...
Nationalization of Banks Begins
In what is unabashedly being called a "partial nationalization" of the U.S. banking industry, the Bush administration announced Tuesday morning that the federal...
Like Barack Obama, John McCain Is a Socialist
When Sen. John McCain was campaigning in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on October 9, a supporter told him "I'm really mad" because of "socialists taking...
U.S. Army Brigade On Call for Domestic Emergencies
The president now has an active-duty Army unit here in the United States to use at his beck and call. The unit will...