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 ...

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)

June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...

The Devil and Mr. Obama | Joe Bageant

Barack promised change -- and sure enough, things changed for the worse (Note: Patrick Ward, associate editor of the UK's Socialist Review asked Joe to write a piece for the party publication. This i ...

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $ | Mark Ames

Oct. 8, 2009 (Exiled Online) -- Every day and every week we hear another shocking story about how our billionaires have cooked up an even sicker scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the nationa ...

Marx and Lenin Revisited (Paul Craig Roberts)

"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” --Karl Marx October 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- If Karl Mar ...

We Poke Along | David Glenn Cox

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Oct. 1, 2009 -- In May of 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034 establishing the Works Projects Administration. The WPA replaced the Federal Emergen ...

Joe Bageant: Breaking The Beer Barrier

June 7, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is the text of a presentation by Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus , to the National Conference On Media Reform June 6-8 at the Minneapolis Conven ...

Somewhere A Banker Smiles -- Muffled Noises From The Ranks Of The Babbling Paranoid (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2006 -- It’s hard as hell to keep conspiracy theories out of one’s mind these days. And I’m not talking about “Who really brought down the Twin Towers?" or the ...

Pissing In The Liberal Punchbowl -- Again (Joe Bageant)

The Democratic conga line in the American House of Lords Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Saw the talking heads today, speaking the priestly tongue. Saw them nodding seriously, using words like 'gravi ...

Madmen And Sedatives: Contraband And Muffled Noises From Inside The Iron Theater (Joe Bageant)

Dey Be Monsters! Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Sept. 10, 2006 -- Nobody talks about it out loud, but a few million Americans are seriously doubting their sanity these days. Or having their sanity d ...

Basra Oil Workers Strike Could Resume Sunday | Kathlyn Stone

Kathlyn Stone -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2006 – Oil pipeline workers in Basra, Iraq, will resume their strike as early as Sunday if authorities do not meet the remaining demands of workers, the Fed ...