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 ...

The Bigot-Whisperers of the Right (Phil Rockstroh)

Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust Oct. 7, 2010 -- I was born, at slightly past the midpoint of the Twentieth Century, in the Deep South city of Birmingham, Alabama -- “The Heart of Dixie.” My earlie ...

BofA Extends Freeze on Foreclosures to All 50 States (Michael J. Moore and Lorraine Woellert)

Oct. 6, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. lender, extended a freeze on foreclosures to all 50 states as concern spread among federal and local officials that homes are being ...

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 ...

The Truth about Immigration (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 18, 2010 -- Everything negative you’ve heard about immigration is true. In fact, all the election cycle talk about lazy parasites pouring over borders to leech off a ...

Daschle Admits -- Then Denies -- That White House Agreed With Industry To Scrap Public Option (Brian Beutler)

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle acknowledged that the public option didn't survive the health care debate because of a "understanding" that the White House reached with health care industry ...

There Is Class War, and Rich Are Winning (Dave Zweifel)

Oct. 6, 2010 -- The Capital Times (Wisconsin) -- A University of Chicago law professor created a firestorm of controversy last month when he blogged that he and his wife are barely making ends meet w ...

One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)

Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, a ...

Global Unemployment to Trigger Further Social Unrest, UN Agency Forecasts (Julia Kollewe)

International Labour Organisation (ILO) notes that social unrest has already been reported in at least 25 countries Oct. 1, 2010 (The Guardian) -- The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warn ...

So Many Suckers, So Few Bridges (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 10, 2010 -- I sometimes don’t know who I am anymore. As I was walking to the library and I saw a younger man in a business suit buying gas. I thought to myse ...