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Michael Collins
DC area writer and researcher
Michael Collins is a DC area based writer and researcher. His work focuses on the abuse of power through the influence of big money. His series, The Money Party, illustrates this ubiquitous theme. Collins has a strong track record publicizing and exposing high impact forms of election fraud. His "Scoop" special, Election 2004: The Urban Legend and the three part series on Republican primary election fraud were very special scoops.
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Murdoch in Free Fall - Credibility Gone, Billions to Follow
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 5:14 pm | Michael Collins
The House of Commons committee investigating Rupert Murdoch’s United Kingdom media properties released new evidence this week. The evidence elaborates on themes generated at the committee hearing of July 19 and adds new information to the toxic brew that ... More >>
Strong Unions - The Worst Nightmare for the Financial Elite
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 12:37 pm | Michael Collins
The antiunion movement in the United States keeps us underpaid and represents a serious impediment to economic growth. Despite that, the antiunion sentiment remains strong among the political establishment and their patrons. Why? More >>
Beyond ForeclosureGate - It Gets Uglier
Friday, 29 April 2011, 11:12 am | Michael Collins
Foreclosure practices lift the veil on a broader set of interlocking efforts to exploit those hardest hit by the endless economic hard times, citizens who become financially desperate due medical conditions. A 2007 study found that medical expenses or income ... More >>
ForeclosureGate Deal - The Mandatory Cover Up
Friday, 15 April 2011, 12:13 pm | Michael Collins
The Federal government is about to settle the ForeclosureGate affair, according to a report in the New York Times on April 9. The Times noted that twelve million homes will be lost by 2012. Home equity values are down by $5.6 trillion since the real ... More >>
The Crazies versus the Sleepwalkers - Big Budget Showdown
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 2:11 pm | Michael Collins
The Republican crazies are in a celebrity death match with sleepwalking Democrats. It is a fabricated drama amounting to not much of anything in terms of the nation's well being. The stakes are supposedly the shutdown of the United States government ... More >>
Post Nuclear Japan, Pre Disaster United States
Monday, 14 March 2011, 6:37 pm | Michael Collins
The Japanese disaster at Fukushima I is a human tragedy of striking proportions. As many as ten thousand citizens may be dead in the general catastrophe, with many more at risk for radiation poisoning at levels yet to be determined. The fact that ... More >>
IMF Rates Up Dictatorships Just Before Revolutions
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 11:51 am | Michael Collins
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) made an embarrassing error just two days before the start of the Libyan people's revolution on February 17. This quote from an IMF country study appeared in a previous article : " The outlook for Libya’s economy ... More >>
Michael Collins: Forces Behind the Egyptian Revolution
Saturday, 12 February 2011, 7:53 am | Michael Collins
(Washington, DC) Two critical forces behind the Egyptian Revolution are missing from the front pages, or any pages, of the corporate media.. They are the critical role of Egypt's union movement and the universal desire of all people to live in ... More >>
Michael Collins: Egypt and the False Dilemma
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 3:06 pm | Michael Collins
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for ... More >>
Healthcare Reform - Abandoning the Self Employed
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 1:18 pm | Michael Collins
The most creative sector of the business community has a dagger at its heart in the form of the relentless, unyielding, and over burdening cost of health insurance. The self-employed and very small businesses have seen their insurance premiums climb ... More >>
A Review of Susan Lindauer's Extreme Prejudice
Thursday, 23 December 2010, 3:56 pm | Michael Collins
Fiction delivers justice that reality rarely approaches. Victims endure suffering and emerge as victors after overcoming incredible challenges. Stieg Larsson's gripping Millennium Trilogy weaves a story of revenge and triumphs for Lizbeth Salander, locked ... More >>
The Grand Betrayal - Obama's Not-So-Long Con
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 4:09 pm | Michael Collins
Previously, I reported the startling news - Obama to Change Party. That was satire, at least on November 14. Just three weeks later, satire becomes reality. In the past few days, President Obama has traded away $620 billion in tax revenues in order to ... More >>
Michael Collins: Obama to Switch Party
Monday, 15 November 2010, 10:39 am | Michael Collins
President Barack Obama has confided his plans to become a registered Republican some time before the end of the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress. Speaking to his inner circle, he lamented failing to bring the two major parties together. More >>
The Money Party Deficit Reduction Scam
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 9:09 pm | Michael Collins
President Obama announced the new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on February 18 to address astronomical federal budget deficits. There has been considerable speculation that this commission will target current and future ... More >>
Heathens Hold the Line in California
Saturday, 30 October 2010, 3:52 pm | Michael Collins
The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill ... More >>
Where's The Note? Shock and Awe for Big Banks
Sunday, 17 October 2010, 2:35 pm | Michael Collins
Big banks have stopped foreclosures in 23 states due to legal challenges to their ownership of mortgage notes. On Wednesday, JP Morgan upped their total to 41 states in which foreclosure operations had ceased. Why the halt in foreclosures? It seems ... More >>
Michael Collins: Lawless Nation - Congress
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:06 pm | Michael Collins
WASHINGTON - Placed in office through legalized bribery, supported by public funding for their every need, protected against the laws that we're expected to obey, Congress represents the epitome of lawlessness; lawmakers who have no regard for the law. ... More >>
Michael Collins: Lawless Nation
Tuesday, 5 October 2010, 9:24 pm | Michael Collins
WASHINGTON - Selected to run by the powerful and wealthy, promising the public one thing and delivering another after elected, the President of the United States is the focus of a new political doctrine - the unitary executive. The office of the ... More >>
Things the President Left Out of His Big Speech
Tuesday, 7 September 2010, 9:33 pm | Michael Collins
I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me. There were some key lines left out of the speech. You may have had the same response. For the sake of clarity and fairness, I've tried to reconstruct the missing lines. I'm sure that ... More >>
Wikileaks Red Cell CIA Release - Say What?
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 10:58 pm | Michael Collins
Wikileaks offered its first release since the controversial distribution of documents related to the United States effort in Afghanistan. The current leak was posted to their web site on August 25. It is titled CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States ... More >>
