Over 60 percent of Afghans suffer mental health problems (Agence France-Presse)

Oct. 10, 2010 -- KABUL (Agence France-Presse) -- Scarred by decades of war, social problems and poverty, more than 60 percent of Afghans suffer from stress disorders and mental health problems, a top ...

How Do You Take Your Tea? With Heaping Spoonfuls of Irony, Of Course (David Michael Green)

Oct. 10, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It's so great that Americans are finally angry about the state of their country. But it's beyond awful that all the wrong people are beside themselves fo ...

Government had Been Warned for Months about Troubles in Mortgage Servicer Industry (Zachary A. Goldfarb)

Oct. 10, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, o ...

S&P: 60 Percent Of Countries Will Be Bankrupt Within 50 Years (Daniel Tencer)

Predicts US will have a debt of 415 percent of GDP by 2050 Oct. 10, 2010 (Raw Story) -- Some 60 percent of the world's economies will be so in debt by 2060 that their debt will be downgraded to "junk ...

World Job Crisis is a Threat to Democracy, Says IMF Head (Larry Elliott)

International Monetary Fund meeting dominated by fears that US job crisis will add to currency tensions with China Oct. 10, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (The Guardian) -- The International Monetary Fund was se ...

Boiler Rooms, Foreclosure Mills: The Story of America’s Mortgage Industry (Michael Hudson)

Oct. 8, 2010 (Center For Public Integrity) -- The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents, false affidavits and “rocket do ...

The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America (Robert Reich)

Oct. 8, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never be ...

America’s Third World Economy (Paul Craig Roberts)

Oct. 8, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- For a number of years I reported on the monthly nonfarm payroll jobs data. The data did not support the praises economists were singing to the “New Econom ...

Bernanke Tells the Truth: The United States is on the Brink of Financial Disaster (Robert Wenzel)

Oct. 5, 2010 (EconomicPolicyJournal.com) -- Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech before the the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council in Provide ...

The Bigot-Whisperers of the Right (Phil Rockstroh)

Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust Oct. 7, 2010 -- I was born, at slightly past the midpoint of the Twentieth Century, in the Deep South city of Birmingham, Alabama -- “The Heart of Dixie.” My earlie ...

Mortgage-Title Fraud: A National Catastrophe (Jeff Nielson)

Jeff Neilson Oct. 8, 2010 (Seeking Alpha) -- It is impossible to overstate the severity of the real estate crisis in the United States which has been caused entirely by the reckless fraud of the nati ...