Essays, etc.:

• Matt Taibbi, The Big Takeover, Rolling Stone, 19 March 2009.
  "The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution."
  
  The Dirty Dozen, Rolling Stone, 25 March 2009.
  "Meet the bankers and brokers responsible for the financial crisis - and the officials who let them get away with it."


• Glenn Greenwald, A major difference between conservatives and progressives, Salon.com, 24 March 2009.


• Extreme Ice, NOVA, PBS, 24 March 2009.
  
  About the melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets; a major issue is to understand the rate of melting and the increase of that rate. Don't overlook that episode's page of references to Links and Books. I especially recommend:
  
  * Al Gore, New thinking on the climate crisis, TED.com, March 2008.


• Thomas B. Edsall, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, The Huffington Post, 23 March 2009.


• Yves Smith, Has the Gaming of the Public-Private Partnership Begun?, naked capitalism, 25 March 2009.


• Barry Ritholtz, New Home Sales Fell 41% in February 2009, The Big Picture, 26 March 2009.


• Steve Thompson & Tanya Eiserer, Dallas police chief apologizes for conduct of officer who drew gun on NFL player outside hospital, The Dallas Morning News, 26 March 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, Comparing the U.S. to Russia and Argentina, Salon.com, 26 March 2009.


• Bill Moyers, William Greider on the Geithner Plan, Bill Moyers' Journal, PBS, 27 March 2009.


• Nicholas Dawidoff, The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson, The New York Times Magazine, 29 March 2009.


• Jeffrey Sachs, Making Rich Guys Richer, The Huffington Post, 29 March 2009.
  
  Ann Pettifor, Challenging the Dogma of Yesterday's Men, The Huffington Post, 29 March 2009.


• ** Simon Johnson, The Quiet Coup, The Atlantic, May 2009.
  
  "The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time."
  
  James Kwak, What the IMF Would Tell the United States, If It Could, The Baseline Scenario, 26 March 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, Britain responds to the "rule of law" nuisance, Salon.com, 27 March 2009.


• * Michael Hudson, Financing the Empire, CounterPunch.org, 30 March 2009.


• James K. Galbraith, No Return to Normal: Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think, The Washington Monthly, March/April 2009.


• Obama Administration, The Costs of Inaction: the Urgent Need for Health Reform, HealthReform.gov, 30 March 2009.


• Jonathan Chait, Why the Democrats Can't Govern, The New Republic, 15 April 2009.


• Peter Finn & Joby Warrick, Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots, The Washington Post, 29 March 2009.
  
  Dan Froomkin, Bush's Torture Rationale Debunked, WashingtonPost.com, 30 March 2009.
  
  Susie Madrak, The Torture Apologists Have No Place Left To Hide, Crooks and Liars, 30 March 2009.


• Sam Tanenhaus, Conservatism Is Dead: An intellectual autopsy of the movement, The New Republic, 18 February 2009.
  
  Alan Wolfe, Conservatism and a Tale of Two Kristols, TNR.com, 09 February 2009.


• Barry Ritholtz, Financial Institutions, Market Cap, 1999-2009, The Big Picture, 31 March 2009.
  
  This image captures an important part of "the big picture."


• William Greider, Trust Your Guts, The Nation, 26 March 2009.
  
  (This article appears at AlterNet.org under the title "A Scary Corporate Coup Is Under Way -- We've Got to Stop It." It covers similar ground as the articles by M. Taibbi and S. Johnson above.)


• Michael Osinski, My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street, New York, 29 March 2009.
  
  Felix Salmon, Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street, Wired, 23 February 2009.
  
  James Kwak, Structured Finance for Beginners, The Baseline Scenario, 29 March 2009.


• Yves Smith, Japanese Expert Criticizes US Wishful Thinking on Economic Crisis, naked capitalism, 02 April 2009.


• Thomas Geoghegan, Infinite debt: How unlimited interest rates destroyed the economy, Harper's Magazine, April 2009.
  
  About an economy based upon Usury.


• Der Spiegel staff, Joseph Stiglitz: "It's going to be bad, very bad", Salon.com, 03 April 2009.


• Jeffrey Sachs, The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought, The Huffington Post, 08 April 2009.


• Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, Obama: Stop protecting Wall Street bankers from Main Street, Salon.com, 09 April 2009.
  
  Bill Moyers, William K. Black: CSI Bailout, Bill Moyers' Journal, PBS, 03 April 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street's ownership of government, Salon.com, 04 April 2009.