Sharp Fall In Consumer Spending, Manufacturing In U.S. (Andre Damon)

Aug. 3, 2011 (WSWS) -- Economic data released this week provides further evidence that economic growth in the United States has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that ...

The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression (John Atcheson)

Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a “starve the beast” campaign -- by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can. Sta ...

America In Collapse (Leon Fisher)

Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- America is in the throes of collapse and the corporate controlled mass media is attempting to shift the blame to labor unions, senior citizens and the dis ...

Gerald Celente: 'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared' (Mac Slavo)

Aug. 1, 2011 (SHTFplan.com) -- In his latest quarterly Trends Journal (Summer 2011), Gerald Celente provides us another “history of the future,” in which he discusses global economic, monetary, and p ...

Economy Close to Stall Speed May Signal Renewed U.S. Recession (Peter Coy)

Aug. 3, 20111 (Bloomberg) -- Economics isn’t rocket science, but the U.S. economy is a little like a rocket. If it has enough thrust, it can escape the tug of economic gravity. Not enough, and it jus ...

An Economy Destroyed: The Enemy Is Washington (Paul Craig Roberts)

July 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade U.S. Treasury bonds if the White House and Congres ...

Dante’s Slope (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 17, 2011 -- I have been at loose ends now for two, could it be going on three years? Without a phone or an address to call my own, I have access to these thin ...

How the bubble destroyed the middle class (Rex Nutting)

Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money July 8, 2011 (MarketWatch) -- A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the 9+ ...

U.S. Spending, Manufacturing Cooled in Slowdown (Alex Kowalski)

June 26, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Consumer spending probably climbed at the slowest pace in almost a year and manufacturing cooled as dimmer job prospects and elevated commodity costs weighed on the U.S. ...

Economy Alone Fails to Explain Turkey’s Success (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 23, 2004 -- Many commentators today are basing the success of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the June 12 elections largely on its ability to gui ...

Why the revolution must start in America (Chris Hedges)

Tyler Hicks / Redux / The New York Times Audio version read by George Atherton – Right-click to download June 16, 2011 (AdBusters) -- The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, th ...