Four Deformations of the Apocalypse (David Stockman)

July 31, 2010 (New York Times) -- If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The natio ...

Rachel Maddow Misses Journalistic Opportunity (Joel S. Hirschhhorn)

Joel S. Hirschhhorn -- World News Trust Aug. 10, 2010 -- On her August 9 show on MSNBC Rachel Maddow went for an easy attack on those seeking government reforms through constitutional amendments, but ...

Three Days to Revolution (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 9, 2010 -- Rage is born of desperation; it is incubated and nurtured by ignorance and neglect. It is fathered by the unfeeling and uncaring, the safe and secu ...

Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 5, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his old passenger van from the ...

Bageant, Chomsky featured in film (Ken Smith)

July 30, 2010 (JoeBageant.com) -- Joe Bageant is featured in a documentary film now in production, titled "The Kingdom of Survival," scheduled for release in November. Others in the film are Noam Cho ...

Dark, Shadowy and Powerful Forces in American History – Part II (Dale Tavris)

Dale Tavris, M.D. Dale Tavris -- World News Trust July 31, 2010 -- This post is a follow-up to my last post, in which I discussed what some people refer to as the “Powers That Be” (PTB), the unelecte ...

Dark, Shadowy and Powerful Forces in American History (Dale Tavris)

Dale Tavris, M.D. Dale Tavris -- World News Trust July 28, 2010 -- Our political system may no longer be capable of saving the United States as we know it, since it is hard to imagine any president o ...

Beware Rich Political Saviors (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 28, 2010 -- Consumer confidence is terrible; citizen confidence is worse: Only 11 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress. No surprise there is re ...

Why Socialism? (Albert Einstein)

This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of soci ...

Protofascism Comes to America: The Rise of the Tea Party (Ted Rall)

July 22, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Is the Tea Party racist? Democrats who play liberals on TV say it isn't. Vice President Joe Biden says the Tea Party "is not a racist organization" per s ...

Rethinking Iran-Contra (Robert Parry)

July 1, 2010 (Consortium News) -- The conventional view of the Iran-Contra scandal is that it covered the period 1985-86, when President Ronald Reagan became concerned about the fate of American host ...