Categorized By Topic
-
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 ...
Read more... -
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 ...
Read more... -
Surprise -- The Very Dark Side of U.S. History (Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry)
Editor's Note: Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys" spreading "democracy" and "liberty" around the world. When the United States inflicts unnecessary death and ...
Read more... -
US Often Weighed North Korea `Nuke Option' (Charles J. Hanley and Randy Herschaft)
Oct. 10,2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- From the 1950s Pentagon to today's Obama administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened use of nuclear weapons against North ...
Read more... -
Welcome to a new theocracy: The Jewish Republic of Israel (Gideon Levy)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Haaretz) -- Remember this day. It's the day Israel changes its character. As a result, it can also change its name to the Jewish Republic of Israel, like the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...
Read more... -
In the Crosshairs of US Drones (Kamal Hyder)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Al-Jazeera) -- Residents live under a constant fear of being hit as dozens of unmanned drones buzz the skies over North and South Waziristan. The drones frighten children and women ...
Read more... -
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 ...
Read more... -
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 ...
Read more... -
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 ...
Read more... -
Bank Shot (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 10, 2010 -- The banking authorities were shocked -- shocked -- to discover last week that an awful lot of mortgage paper in this country is not quite ...
Read more... -
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 ...
Read more...
Page 453 of 499
