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 ...

Record 41.8 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps (Michael Krebs)

Oct. 6, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- As the November midterm elections draw closer, the stubborn unemployment rate has pushed a record 41.8 million Americans onto food stamps. Representing an ...

Extraordinary! (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2010 -- I walk these quiet empty streets like a post-apocalyptic omega man surrounded by quiet and empty stores and houses. Past the fast food joints stil ...

Labor Day and the Easter Bunny (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 3, 2010 -- Monday is Labor Day, a national holiday in America that’s come to be as meaningless as the Easter bunny. It is a holiday that mill ...

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 ...