The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger (Paul Craig Roberts)

Nov. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- On Thanksgiving eve the English language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the ...

Global Poverty Doubled since 1970s: UN (Agence France-Presse)

Nov. 26, 2010 -- GENEVA (Agence France-Presse) -- The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fol ...

Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street (Robert Scheer)

Nov. 24, 2010 (TruthDig) -- Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level in U.S. history, and ...

Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter (Catherine Rampell)

Nov. 23, 2010 (New York Times) -- The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever. American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trill ...

Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion (Chris Hedges)

Nov. 23, 2010 (TruthDig) -- There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power. The electoral process has been hijacked by corpo ...

The Evolution of Transition In The U.S. (Michael Brownlee)

The Backstory Nov. 26, 2010 (Transition Times) -- The emergence of the Transition movement in the last four years or so is one of the most hopeful signs in the early 21st century, and Transition may ...

The horrible truth starts to dawn on Europe's leaders (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)

Nov. 16, 2010 (Telegraph) -- The entire European Project is now at risk of disintegration, with strategic and economic consequences that are very hard to predict. In a speech this morning, EU Preside ...

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Had Mental Illness in 2009 (Reuters)

Nov. 19, 2010 CHICAGO (Reuters) -- More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government resea ...

China Has Tied Bernanke's Hands: The Least We Can Do Is Be Grateful (Mike Whitney)

Nov. 19, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Say what you will about Alan Greenspan, he was never a whiner. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about present Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. Bernanke's ...

Prime U.S. Mortgage Foreclosures Rise to Record (Kathleen M. Howley)

Nov. 18, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Foreclosures on prime fixed-rate mortgages in the U.S. jumped to a record in the third quarter as unemployment strained household budgets of the most creditworthy borrowe ...

Economic Data Show U.S. Recovery Accelerating (Courtney Schlisserman and Shobhana Chandra)

Nov. 18, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The index of U.S. leading indicators rose for a fourth consecutive month, manufacturing surged in the Philadelphia area and jobless claims climbed less than forecast, sig ...