Nonfarm payrolls drop 131,000 in July (Greg Robb)

Private payrolls up 71,000, economists had been expecting growth of 100,000 Aug. 6, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. employers continued to hire but at a sluggish pace that adds to pessimism ...

Global systemic crisis / Second half of 2010: The global system’s four single points of failure (LEAP/E2020)

Public announcement GEAB N°46 (June 16, 2010) -- Each day the news confirm the extent to which the global systemic crisis has now entered into the phase of global geopolitical dislocation, even if th ...

'Graduating' From Graduating From College: The Ivory Tower Crumbles (Carolyn Baker)

As concerns education, its purpose as presently envisaged is to enable persons to be "productive" within the context of industrial society. --Thomas Berry, The Great Work July 5, 2010 (CarolynBaker.n ...

These Dreams (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 3, 2010 -- I woke up this morning after having nightmares all night. I slept later than usual because it was cooler than normal. The heat keeps me from sleepi ...

US Economy Stuck in Misery (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 2, 2010 -- The middle class is dead. The United States has produced a self-sustaining two-class society. Most Lower Class Americans are in bad or uncertain ...

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)

June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...

Marx and Lenin Revisited (Paul Craig Roberts)

"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” --Karl Marx October 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- If Karl Mar ...