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eXiled Alert!

We were going to wait ’til the snow melted, but a recent spate of corrupt hack-shill attacks on Team eXiled has prompted us to decide to make an immediate launch of a new project: a no-holds barred campaign to identify and expose corrupt shills and corporate trolls among political journalists and bloggers in the US.
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Posted on: January 3rd, 2012 | Comments (58)

eXiled eXclusive! Read The Orignal Letter Charles Koch Sent To Friedrich von Hayek Telling Him To Sign Up For Social Security

Here is the private letter from Charles Koch to Nobel Prize economist Friedrich Hayek, godfather of today’s free-market movement. The letter was obtained by Yasha Levine from the Hayek Archives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. It is part…

Posted on: September 29th, 2011 | Comments (26)

Monster Koch Bust: Charles Koch Used Social Security to Lure Friedrich von Hayek to America

There’s right-wing hypocrisy, and then there’s this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed the benefits of Social Security to Friedrich Hayek, the leading laissez-faire economist of the twentieth century. Koch even sent Hayek a government pamphlet to help him take advantage of America’s federal retirement insurance and healthcare programs.

Posted on: September 29th, 2011 | Comments (28)

eXiled Alert! Big Story Breaking Today On The Dylan Ratigan Show At 4PM EST…Stay Tuned…

Posted on: September 29th, 2011 | Comments (3)

ANDREW BREITBART ATTACKS EXILED EDITOR MARK AMES!…Hires Failed Teabag Republican To Investigate The Great “Who Is Johnny Chen?” Conspiracy

Welp folks, I’m now a Made Man in the depraved and hilarious world of American Pop Culture–the only World that really matters in this country. Andrew Breitbart, the Brentwood-born West Hollywood princeling, has officially anointed me “Important Enough To Hate.”…

Posted on: August 30th, 2011 | Comments (86)

FOC The RATS! Bring Back Ike’s Tax Rate On The Rich

The eXiled has set up an emergency “deficit crisis” website calling on America to restore President Eisenhower’s top tax rate on the wealthiest 0.1% Americans: RATFOCR. Everyone agrees that the Golden Age for America’s middle-class was under President Eisenhower, when…

Posted on: July 18th, 2011 | Comments (27)

Attention eXilistas & eXholes: The eXiled is looking for two lucky interns this summer…

The eXile is looking to hire two extremely lucky interns this summer. Looking for the sorts of go-getters ‘n’ whippersnappers with web and design skills; research and editing skills; or, heck, absolutely no skills whatsoever. That sound like you?

Posted on: May 26th, 2011 | Comments (18)

WikiLeaks Releases “Raunchy” State Dept Cable About Mark Ames, “The eXile” and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev!

An American correspondent stationed in Moscow just forwarded me a WikiLeaked diplomatic cable about me, The eXile, and the Kremlin media-stomping in mid-2008 that killed my newspaper and sent me fleeing home. The June 16, 2008 US Embassy cable–marked “CONFIDENTIAL”–correctly put the crackdown on The eXile in the context of a wider (and scarier) crackdown on other Russian media outlets that coincided with the handover of power from Vladimir Putin to the newly-”elected” President Dmitry Medvedev.

Posted on: May 25th, 2011 | Comments (34)

eXiled Readers, Have You No Shame!  — Donate, Already!

We’ve been on a suicide mission. And you’ve had front row seats–and a free ride–the whole way. But nothing is free forever, folks. Not even career-suicide. So you need to pitch in and help us see through our mission of making this world a little less comfortable for everyone, especially the satisfied-ites. Help right now, it’ll only take a minute…

Posted on: May 17th, 2011 | Comments (49)

Rightwing Rutherford Institute, Co-Founded By A Racist Holocaust Denier And A “Bloodthirsty Theologian” Homophobe, Attacks The Exiled!

On Tuesday May 3, a lawyer for the rightwing Rutherford Institute sent a threatening letter to The eXiled because we reminded our readers about the dark, extremist homophobic ideology behind the early years of the Rutherford Institute and its co-founder, John Whitehead.

Posted on: May 6th, 2011 | Comments (49)

eXiled Alert: eXiled Editor Yasha Levine Wins Award From The New York Press Association For His Story On Manhattan’s Billionaire Farmers…

An investigation by eXiled Editor Yasha Levine helped The New York Press snag an award in the 2010 Better Newspaper Contest for “Coverage of Business, Financial & Economic News” by exposing how wealthy Manhattanites, Wall St. traders and the Rockefellers milk taxpayers for billions in farm subsidies and tax breaks.

Posted on: April 18th, 2011 | Comments (9)

eXiled Alert! Dylan Ratigan Gives Shout Out To Yasha Levine, The eXiled For Pioneering Real Estate Market Reporting Out of Victorville

I’ve been living in Venice Beach for the past few months, convalescing after almost two years of immersion-reporting out of Victorville, California–the front lines of California’s real estate meltdown. Life out in Victorville, a remote exburb on the edge of…

Posted on: February 1st, 2011 | Comments (19)

eXiled eXclusive: Charles and David Koch Made The Inaugural Ceremony Carpet Under President Obama’s Feet

Yes, the Kochs are everywhere. Even under our feet. See that plush red and blue carpet cascading down the steps of the United States Capitol building, framing President Barack Obama as he makes his historic inaugural address? It’s made from…

Posted on: January 27th, 2011 | Comments (14)

Iraqi Students Interview John Dolan

Earlier this month, The eXiled’s John Dolan published an explosive account about his year in Iraq teaching at the American University in Sulaimani, the capital of the Kurdish-controlled region in the north of the country. The university, known by its…

Posted on: November 4th, 2010 | Comments (40)

MEG WHITMAN: STINGIEST BILLIONAIRE IN AMERICA?  (Or: Top 8 Reasons Why Borat Would Vote For Meg Whitman)

“I will steal your hard-earned money!” This article was first published on AlterNet. Meg Whitman has always wanted to be Number One in her field. So although it must rankle Whitman that her $1.3 billion in wealth only ranks her…

Posted on: November 1st, 2010 | Comments (23)

Alex Chilton Is Dead. The Rate Of Mammal Extinctions Accelerates.

Alex Chilton died of a heart attack a few hours ago. It’s a wonder his heart held out this long. Alex Chilton’s story always scared me more than the others–I’d figured he was already dead, for some reason–because in the…

Posted on: March 17th, 2010 | Comments (29)

eXile Editor Yasha Levine Nominated For “Best Web Article” Award By The Western Publishers Association

See that trophy above, the one that looks like an upside-down bottle of VOSS designer water? That’s what the Western Publishers Association, a trade group for magazine publishers operating out in the wild west, wants to hand eXile Editor Yasha Levine…

Posted on: March 17th, 2010 | Comments (8)

Mark Ames’ Article On Larry Summers Sparks Riots In India…185 Arrested…Exiled Site Under Attack…

Riot at Indian TV station over Exiled Online article This has to be the single weirdest episode in my journalism career–and that’s saying a lot, considering all the strange and scary shit I’ve been through over the past decade-plus. I…

Posted on: January 8th, 2010 | Comments (241)

Posted on: January 2nd, 2010 | Leave Comment

Special “Going Postal” Movie Screening In London!

If you’re one of the millions of eXiled Online readers living in the Greater London area, then Christmas is coming early for you. Next Friday, October 16, there will be a special screening of the brutal BBC-produced documentary, Going Postal,…

Posted on: October 9th, 2009 | Comments (17)

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