There Is Class War, and Rich Are Winning (Dave Zweifel)

Oct. 6, 2010 -- The Capital Times (Wisconsin) -- A University of Chicago law professor created a firestorm of controversy last month when he blogged that he and his wife are barely making ends meet w ...

Fmr. Intelligence Director: New Cyberattack May Be Worse Than 9/11 (Max Fisher)

Sept. 30, 2010 (The Atlantic) -- Speaking at the Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., former Director of National Intelligence and Director of the National Security Agency Mike ...

One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)

Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, a ...

Global Unemployment to Trigger Further Social Unrest, UN Agency Forecasts (Julia Kollewe)

International Labour Organisation (ILO) notes that social unrest has already been reported in at least 25 countries Oct. 1, 2010 (The Guardian) -- The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warn ...

Animal Rights/Vegan Issues: Where's the Left? (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 17, 2010 -- In a recent article, I discussed how America’s top liberal (sic) eco-spokesperson, Al Gore, conveniently ignores the primary cause of climate change: f ...

BOOK REVIEW: Dismantling the Empire -- America’s Last Best Hope. By Chalmers Johnson

Dismantling the Empire -- America’s Last Best Hope. Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, NY. 2010. Sept. 25, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- That the empire has caused much tro ...

Towards a very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system (LEAP-E2020)

GEAB N°47 is available! The Global systemic crisis – Spring 2011: Welcome to the United States of Austerity / Towards a very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system Sept. 16, 201 ...

Retail Sales in U.S. Increase for a Second Month (Shobhana Chandra)

Sept. 14, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Sales at U.S. retailers rose in August for a second consecutive month, easing concern the economy will stumble in the second half of the year. Purchases increased 0.4 pe ...

Global Collapse of the Fiat Money System (Matthias Chang)

Too-Big-To-Fail Global Banks Will Collapse Between Now and First Quarter 2011 When Quantitative Easing Has Run Its Course and Fails Aug. 31, 2010 (Global Research) -- Readers of my articles will reca ...

Do Not Pity the Democrats (Chris Hedges)

Sept. 13, 2010 (TruthDig) -- There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious insti ...

International Panel Reaches Accord on New Rules for Banking Industry (New York Times)

Sept. 12, 2010 (New York Times) -- Top central bankers and bank regulators agreed Sunday in Basel, Switzerland, on far-reaching new rules for the global banking industry that are designed to avert fu ...