Government had Been Warned for Months about Troubles in Mortgage Servicer Industry (Zachary A. Goldfarb)

Oct. 10, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, o ...

Surprise -- The Very Dark Side of U.S. History (Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry)

Editor's Note: Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys" spreading "democracy" and "liberty" around the world. When the United States inflicts unnecessary death and destru ...

Welcome to a new theocracy: The Jewish Republic of Israel (Gideon Levy)

Oct. 10, 2010 (Haaretz) -- Remember this day. It's the day Israel changes its character. As a result, it can also change its name to the Jewish Republic of Israel, like the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...

Boiler Rooms, Foreclosure Mills: The Story of America’s Mortgage Industry (Michael Hudson)

Oct. 8, 2010 (Center For Public Integrity) -- The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents, false affidavits and “rocket do ...

Mortgage-Title Fraud: A National Catastrophe (Jeff Nielson)

Jeff Neilson Oct. 8, 2010 (Seeking Alpha) -- It is impossible to overstate the severity of the real estate crisis in the United States which has been caused entirely by the reckless fraud of the nati ...

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 ...

‘Dying to Win’: Newt Gingrich’s ‘Terrorism’ (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 7, 2010 -- On Sept. 30, within the time frame of a few hours, an accused man reportedly confessed to terrorism charges in Germany, the terrorism threat level was ...

Panel: Gov't blocked scientists on spill estimate (Dina Cappiello)

Oct. 7, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that r ...

Dissent in the Age of Obama (Cindy Sheehan)

Peace activists had high hopes of an Obama presidency only to face the harsh realities of FBI raids and intimidation “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and ...

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 ...