Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy (Ted Rall)

Dec. 8, 2010 -- NEW YORK (CommonDreams.org) -- After the Soviet collapse in 1991 U.S. policy toward Central Asia was transparently cynical: support the dictators, screw the people. As the United Stat ...

Happy as a Hangman (Chris Hedges)

Dec. 6, 2010 (TruthDig.com) -- Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sancti ...

General Electric Tapped Fed To Borrow $16 Billion (Jeff Gerth)

The GE building in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Dec. 2, 2010 (ProPublica) -- Newly released documents from the Federal Reserve Board show that General Electric Co. was a significant us ...

U.S. Federal Reserve Conjures -- and Redefines -- Money (Matthew Cardinale)

Nov. 30, 2010 (Inter Press Service) -- ATLANTA, Georgia - The private central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has begun purchasing $600 billion of long-term U.S. Treasury Bonds, essen ...

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 ...

Bernanke vs. Keynes (Mike Whitney)

Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Investment drives the economy. It creates jobs, builds factories, develops technology, and stimulates growth. When investment falls, spending slows, unem ...

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 First Victory Against The Police State May Come Against The TSA (Saman Mohammadi)

Credit: Oleg Volk Nov. 19, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- There is a growing public resistance campaign across U.S. airports against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for routine ...

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 ...

The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness (Prof. John Kozy)

Nov. 14, 2010 (Global Research) -- The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of natio ...