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 ...

Yes, I Can: Straight Talk on Balancing the Budget (Ted Rall)

Nov. 12, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- The federal budget deficit is like the weather. Everybody talks about it; except for Bill Clinton, no one ever does anything about it. President Obama's bipartisan ...

Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners (Matt Taibbi)

Retired judges are rushing through complex cases to speed foreclosures in Florida Nov. 10, 2010 (Rolling Stone) -- The foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. The ...

Slide in Home Prices Signals Trouble Ahead: IAS (Carrie Bay)

Nov. 9, 2010 (DSNews) -- Residential property values fell 0.2 percent at the national level during the third quarter of this year, according to Integrated Asset Services (IAS). In front of a seasonal ...

Outrage, Misguided (Noam Chomsky)

Nov. 4, 2010 (New York In These Times) -- The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats a ...

A Recipe for Fascism (Chris Hedges)

Nov. 8, 2010 (Truthdig) -- American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational. On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to resp ...

Nine stories the press is underreporting -- fraud, fraud and more fraud (Dan Froomkin)

From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers -- a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it from a lot of th ...

Finance Has Become a New Form of Warfare: An interview with professor Michael Hudson (Democracy Now!)

Nov. 5, 2010 -- (Democracy Now!) -- The Federal Reserve will pump $600 billion more into the U.S. economy and keep interest rates at historical low levels. The short-term impact of the Fed’s move, kn ...

It Was the Banks (James K. Galbraith)

Nov. 5, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- Bruce Bartlett says it was a failure to focus. Paul Krugman says it was a failure of nerve. Nancy Pelosi says it was the economy's failure. Barack Obama says it was ...