Mark Ames
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Three Heads, We Lose: Gun Control Without Equality Means More Massacres, Not Fewer
By Mark Ames LAS VEGAS, NV: Although the massacre in Newtown is not the type of rebellion-like rampage massacre that I usually write about — where employee attacks his workplace and his co-workers, or middle-class school kids attack their school and fellow students — a few ...read more
If Andrew Sullivan is "The Future of Journalism" then Journalism is F*cked
First published at NSFW Corp LAS VEGAS, NV: Andrew Sullivan is all over the news after announcing he’s going solo, parting ways with Tina Brown shortly after she put a pillow over Newsweek’s face. But in all the media excitement over Sullivan’s decision to rely on the ...read more
Exclusive: Tracy Lawrence and the Foreclosure Suicide that America Ignored
By Mark Ames: Every week, it seems there’s another tragic story about a suicide or murder-suicides linked to foreclosure trauma. Some of the more spectacular murder-by-foreclosure stories the past few years have been collected by a blog called “Greenspan’s Body Count”—others, ...read more
NPR's "Planet Money" Mired in Adam Davidson World of Corruption
By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine: Adam Davidson graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in religion, and began his public radio career selling airtime and doing sponsor outreach. He then became an on-air radio personality, filing pro-Iraq War dispatches as ...read more
Exclusive: The Quiet Extermination Of Labor Rights From Human Rights
By Mark Ames: Progressive intellectuals have been acting very bipolar towards labor lately, characterized by wild mood swings ranging from the “We’re sorry we abandoned labor, how could we!” sentiment during last year’s Wisconsin uprising against Koch waterboy Scott Walker, to ...read more
Exclusive: Failing Up With Dick Parsons
Last month, shareholders finally rebelled against Citigroup, the worst of the Too Big To Fail bailout disasters, by filing a lawsuit against outgoing chairman Dick Parsons and handful of executives for stuffing their pockets while running the bank into the ground. Anyone ...read more