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"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, Chicago Daily News, 28jul41

• Beyond Voting - Bureau of Public Secrets 11may2008
• 24 Million Veterans Costing $59 Billion a Year: Number of Disabled Vets Up with Iraq, Afghan Wars - AP 11may2008
• Aging Systems Releasing Sewage into Rivers & Streams: Money Has Been Blown on Phoney War on Terror - USA Today 8may2008

• Obama Picks Up Superdelegates: Undecideds Moving His Way - AP 7may2008

• Clinton: Decision Time for Clinton - Washington Post 7may2008

• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Doubts Raised on Big Backers of Mortgages - New York Times 6may2008

• Obama Victory Speech in Raleigh, North Carolina 6may2008

• Iraq: Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths - Bloomberg 5may2008

• Iraq: Top US Commando Says Strain of War in Iraq and Afghanistan Limits Forces Elsewhere - AP 5may2008

• The Lure of the GI Bill: Empty Promises - San Francisco Chronicle 4may2008

• Iraq: Karnowski's US-Backed Plan Sees Shiny Future for Embattled Green Zone: A Little Like Oz - AP 4may2008

• Iraq Distanced Itself From U.S. Accusations of Iranian Meddling in Iraqi Affairs - Reuters 4may2008

• Mary Gade: EPA Regional Chief Resigns After Dispute Over Dow's Dioxin Pollution - Wall Street Journal 3may2008

• Low Spending Is Taking Toll on Economy - New York Times 1may2008

• Obama: Joe Andrew, Superdelegate, Switches Sides For Obama - Public Statement 1may2008

• Consumer Spending Up on Higher Prices: Record Gasoline Prices, Deep Housing Slump and Rising Unemployment - AP 1may2008

• Former Leader of Democratic Party Under Bill Clinton Switches to Obama: Unite Behind Obama - AP 1may2008

• Americans Unload Prized Belongings to Make Ends Meet - AP 29apr2008

• Bush Rhetoric on Energy Strays From The Facts - AP 29apr2008

• Peak Oil at Bush Press Conference - Energy Bulletin 29apr2008

  • Bush Press Conference / Rose Garden 29apr2008

• Home Price Index Sinks 12.7%: Record Clip - AP 29apr2008

• Home Foreclosures More than Doubled in 1Q from 2007 - AP 29apr2008

• Afghanistan: US Marines to Face Deadly Martyrdom Attacks As Taliban Spring Offensive Intensifies - Jihad Unspun 27apr2008

• Afghanistan: US Marines Deploying in Afghanistan for First Time in Years - AP 27apr2008

• The Politics Of Food Is Politics - Speaking Truth To Power 26apr2008

• Oil Prices up on Word US Ship Fired on Boats in Persian Gulf: Attack in Nigeria - AP 25apr2008

• Many States Appear to be in Recession - AP 25apr2008

• Sean Bell: Rev. Al Sharpton Promising 'Methodical and Serious' Reaction - YouTube.com Video (transcription) 25apr2008

  • Sean Bell: Verdict Complicates Things for Obama - Special Edition / Black Commentator 25apr2008

  • Sean Bell: 3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting - New York Times 25apr2008

  • Sean Bell: Inside the Sean Bell Case - New York Times 24apr2008

• Understanding Black Patriotism: The Color of Loyalty - Time Magazine 24apr2008

• Supreme Court Says Police May Search Even if Arrest Unlawful - AP 23apr2008

• Libor's Rise May Sock Many Borrowers - Wall Street Journal 19apr2008

• Trapped in the Middle: Incomes of Most Americans Have Stalled - Wall Street Journal 19apr 2008

• Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-Year-Old Temple Complex: 7,000 years older than Stonehenge -  Eurasianet 17apr2008

• Oklahoma County Sheriff Mike Burgess Charged With Using Inmates as Sex Slaves - AP 17apr2008

• Why Lenders Are Leery Of Short Sales - Wall Street Journal 17apr2008

• Numbers Racket: Why the Economy is Worse Than We Know - Harper's Magazine 1may2008

• Weekly Jobless Claims Rise More Than Expected, Reflecting Weak Economy - AP 17apr2008

• Economy Weakens Further in Sales, Housing, Credit, and Jobs - AP 16apr2008

• AP Photographer Bilal Hussein Freed by US Military After 2 Years in Ramadi - AP 16apr2008

• Home Foreclosure Rate Shows No Sign of Abatement: Bank repossessions top 51,000 in March across the country - AP 15apr2008

• Here Comes the Next Mortgage Crisis: California's prime borrowers to start handing their keys to the bank - Slate 15apr2008

• Torture and Democracy: Scholar Darius Rejali Details the History and Scope of Modern Torture - Democracy Now Interview in 2 parts 12mar2008 and 15apr2008

• Factories Fading, Hospitals Step In - Wall Street Journal 15apr2008

• The Madness of Ben Bernanke - Der Spiegel (Germany) 14apr2008

• Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe - New York Times 14apr2008

• Everyone Wants to Close Guantánamo, but what will happen to the detainees? - The New Yorker 14apr2008

• 1,300 Iraqi Troops, Police Dismissed For Deserting or Refusing to Fight - AP 13apr2008

• 4,032 Iraq Casualties: US Troops Suffer Worst Week This Year - AP 12apr2008

• IMF Warns of 'Fire and Ice' Threat to the World - The Telegraph (UK) 12apr2008

• IMF Cuts US Growth Forecast, Warns of Global Slump - WSWS 12apr2008

• Bush Approval Hits New Career Low of 28% - Baltimore Sun 11apr2008

• U.S. Consumer Confidence Index Falls to 26-Year Low - Bloomberg 11apr2008

• The Black Death of Financial Collapse - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 10apr2008

• Pending Home Sales Hit New Low in February: Latest Sign of a Still-Tumbling Housing Market - AP 8apr2008

• Free Tibet Activists Scale Golden Gate Bridge - Radio New Zealand (w/YouTube) 7apr2008

• End Of The World As We Know It: American Empire is about to come crashing down - Arizona Republic 6apr2008

• 4,018 Iraq Casualties: 3 US Troops Killed, 31 Wounded in Iraq - AP 6apr2008

• Iraq: US No Closer to Goals: Report by US Institute of Peace  - AP 6apr2008

• Survivalism: NYT Book Review of Barton M. Biggs's “Wealth, War and Wisdom" - New York Times 6apr2008

• The Great Inflation Cover-Up: If the price of dinner is pinching us, why don't the CPI numbers acknowledge it? -  Fortune 14apr2008

• Free Tibet Protestors Successful: London Police Form Human Wall Around Torch Procession for the 2008 Beijing Olympics - Monsters And Critics 6apr2008

• Arizona Slams Door on Illegal Immigrants: Like it or not, this is the country we've created  - Los Angeles Times 5apr2008

• U.S. Suffers Biggest Jobs Drop In 5 Years as Downturn Spreads - Wall Street Journal 5apr2008

  • Current Employment Statistics Highlights March 2008 - Bureau of Labor Statistics 4apr2008

• Overdue Consumer Debts Highest Since 1992, ABA Says - Bloomberg News 3apr2008

• Statement of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Before the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress - 2apr2008

• An Age of Transition: The United States, China, Peak Oil, and the Demise of Neoliberalism - Monthly Review 1apr2008

• Iraqi Government Offensive in Basra Threatens to Trigger Shiite Uprising - WSWS 28mar2008

• Buddhism in Tibet: When The Sky Fell To Earth: The New Crackdown On Buddhism In Tibet - International Campaign for Tibet  27mar2008

• Throwing Money at a Crisis Won’t Prevent Meltdown - Sunday Herald (Scotland) 27mar2008

• Growing Number of Companies Use Scanners to Track Employees - AP 26mar2008

• Saddam Paid for Lawmakers' Iraq Trip Without Their Knowledge - AP 26mar2008

• Many Iraqi Women Say Life Was Better Under Saddam - Agence France-Presse 26mar2008

• Iraqi and U.S. Forces Battle Shiite Militia - New York Times 25mar2008

• Confused Pro-War Groups Roar Into Berkeley: Eagles Up and Move America Forward - Berkeley Daily Planet 25mar2008

• France Could Skip Olympics Opening: Punishing China Over Ongoing Tibet Crackdown - AP 25mar2008

• Recession Is a Given. Can We Avoid Depression? - Christian Science Monitor 24mar2008

• 4,000 Iraq Casualties: Five Years in Iraq and 4,000 Dead - Los Angeles Times 24mar2008

• Worried Yet? Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit - Empire Burlesque 24mar2008

• New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears: Spread of Prosperity Brings Supply Woes - Wall Street Journal 24mar2008

• Bum Bot Robot Reports for Security Duty in Atlanta: Bar owner Rufus Terrill built it - Los Angeles Times 23mar2008

• Depression: Financial Turmoil Raises Worries of Deeper Recession - Worst Since World War II - AP 22mar2008

• Greenspan Stands His Ground: Ex-Chairman Says Fed Policies Didn't Cause Current Woes - Washington Post 21mar2008

• Starbucks Ordered to Pay California Baristas More than $100 Million in Back Tips Plus Interest - AP 21mar2008

• Presidential Candidates' Passport Files Breached - AP 21mar2008

• Obama Endorsed by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Could Bring other Superdelegates to Obama - AP 21mar2008 - AP 21mar2008

• Iraq: The Smart Way Out of a Foolish War - Zbigniew Brezinski / Commentary / Washington Post 20mar2008

• Iran: Danger and Opportunity - Informed Comment 20mar2008

• Asian Economies Hit by US Financial Crisis and Slowdown - WSWS 20mar2008

• McCain Mixes Up Iraqi Groups: Iran is Training and Supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq? - Washington Post 19mar2008

• World Trade Decelerates Almost to Standstill - Financial Times (UK) 19mar2008

• Making the Most of a Global Depression - Hope Dance 19mar2008

• Bush Is Optimistic Again About Iraq War: President Rejects Troop Withdrawal, Says Surge Turned 'Situation in Iraq Around' - Washington Post 19mar2008

• Bush Approval Hits New Low: Only 31 Percent of Americans Approve of Bush's Job Performance - CNN News 19mar2008

• State of Vermont Cuts 400 Job - AP 19mar2008

• A Lack of Trust Spells Crisis in Every Financial Language - Financial Times (UK) 18mar2008

• 3,981 Iraq Casualties: Names of the Dead - New York Times 18mar2008

• U.S. Adapts Cold-War Idea to Fight Terrorists - New York Times 18mar2008

• Barack Obama on Race and Politics: 'A More Perfect Union' - Speech in Philadelphia, PA 18mar2008

• Global Systemic Crisis: End of 2008: Pension Funds Go Off The Rails - Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB) N°23 15mar2008

• Bush: President Weakens Espionage Oversight Board Created by Ford Loses Most of its Power - Boston Globe 14mar2008

• Bush Warns: Avoid Overcorrecting Economy - AP 15mar2008

  • Bush's Remarks on Economy - Speaking at Economic Club of New York (with comments) 14mar2008

• Police Hold Gun On Teacher Aboard Bus Full of Students: Mistaken Identity or Racism? - Berkeley Daily Planet 14mar2008

• U.S. Home Defaults and Foreclosures Rise 60% in February - Bloomberg News 13mar2008

• Mind the Gap: Home-Price Downside - Wall Street Journal 13mar2008

• The Clinton Monster, Unleashed - Black Commentator 13mar2008

• Venezuela: Hypocrisies of a US-backed Venezuela-Colombia Crisis - Venezuelanalysis.com 12mar2008

• Bush Defends Wars, Citing Freedom - New York Times 12mar2008

• Bush Vetoes Waterboarding Ban: The bill would have funded intelligence agencies - Los Angeles Times 12mar2008

• Globalization & Militarization-Roots of War - Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat / Former Chief of the Naval Staff, India 10mar2008

• Reporter of Anthrax Probe Is Fined Over Sources - Wall Street Journal 10mar2008

• New York Times Trying to Prevent Public from Panicking - Life After the Oil Crash 10mar2008

• NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data - Wall Street Journal 10mar2008

• Aging Boomers Could Burst Housing Bubble - San Francisco Chronicle 9mar2008

• FBI Says Bomb in Times Square, Mailings to Hill Are Not Linked: Armed Forces Recruiting Station - Washington Post  8mar2008

• Recession! - Jobs Data Suggest U.S. Is in Recession: Largest Payroll Fall In Five Years Spurs New Stimulus Talk - Wall Street Journal 8mar2008

• Massive Job Losses: Recession Fears Rise on More Job Cuts - Reuters 7mar2008

• US Catholic Church Paid $615 M for Abuse Cases in 2007 - AP 7mar2008

• Confidence Sinks to Lowest Point in Records Going Back to 2002: RBC Cash Index Sank 33.1 from 48.5 in February - AP & Press Release 7mar2008

• Unemployment: U.S. February Payrolls Drop Biggest in Nearly Five Years - Reuters 7mar2008

• Current Financial Challenges: Policy and Regulatory Implications - Federal Reserve Bank of New York 6mar2008

• Fear and War: The Two Winners of the 2008 Presidential Election - Online Journal 6mar2008

• High Schools Add Classes Scripted by Corporations - Wall Street Journal 6mar2008

• Home Foreclosures Hit Record High, While Homeowner Equity Is Lowest Since 1945 - AP 6mar2008

• Oil Prices Near $104 a Barrel as Dollar Falls to Historic Low Against Euro - International Herald Tribune 4mar2008

• Stephen Kinzer on US-Iranian Relations: The 1953 CIA Coup in Iran and the Roots of Middle East Terror - DemocracyNow Interview 3mar2008

• Public Commons for Everyone -- Except the Poor - Street Spirit v.14, n.3, 1mar2008

• Vote Machine: How Republicans Hacked the Justice Department - Harper's Magazine 1mar2008

• Off the Charts: In Parts of U.S., Foreclosures Top Sales - New York Times 1mar2008

• Markets Fall on Drumbeat of Grim Reports - New York Times 1mar2008

• FISA: Intelligence Bill: Rhetoric of Faith: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - Editorial / Seattle Post-Intelligencer 29feb2008

• FISA: Fact Check on Wiretapping Law Claims - AP 28feb2008

• Prison Population: More Than 10 Percent of US Males in Prison - New York Times + Executive Summary of Pew Report 28feb2008

• Obama's Sub-Prime Conflict - Consortiumnews.com 28feb2008

• Bush, Fed Chief See No Recession Ahead - AP 28feb2008

• Economy Skids to Near Halt in Final Quarter of 2007 - AP 28feb2008

• New Day, New Lows for Dollar: Dollar Sinks to Another Low Against Euro As US Economy Nearly Halts, Jobless Claims Rise - AP 28feb2008

• Oil Surges Above $102 As Dollar Weakens - AP 28feb2008

• Collapse of U.S. Economy Foreseen by International Experts - The Intelligencer (Canada) 27feb2008

• Obama Craze: Count Me Out - Matt Gonzalez / Beyond The Chron 27feb2008

• Decline in Home Prices Accelerates: Fed's Efforts Have Only Muted Effect On Mortgage Rates - Wall Street Journal 27feb2008

• Outlook for U.S. Banks Just Got Gloomier - Financial Post (Canada) 26feb2008

• Housing in Freefall Until Credit Loosens and Supply Recedes: No End in Sight - AP 26feb2008

• Sales and Prices Both Fall in January: Home Sales Give Some Relief  - Wall Street Journal 26feb2008

• Google Sued for Contacts to Justice Department - AP 26feb2008

• Consumer Confidence Index Declines  to Lowest Since Iraqi War in Nearly Fifteen Years - Consumer Confidence Press Release 26feb2008

• Michelle Obama ’85’s Senior Thesis Released by Princeton University - The Daily Princetonian 26feb2008

• Existing Home Sales Fall to Lowest Level in Nine Years: Sales and Prices Both Fall in January - AP 25jan2008

• Obama: In Texas Debate, Obama Counters Clinton Attack by Asserting His Readiness to Use Military Force  - WSWS 22feb2008

• McCain Ranks Last on Environmental Votes - Washington Post 22feb2008

• McCain Campaign Manager: Indicted for Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, Money Laundering, Insurance Fraud, Extortion and More - AP 22feb2008

• McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk: Affair with Lobbyist - New York Times 21feb2008

• Vallejo, California in Danger of Declaring Bankruptcy - San Francisco Chronicle 21feb2008

• Obama: Lobbyists, Law Firms and the Obama Money Cartel - Corporate Crime Reporter 21feb2008

• Bush Approval Rating at New Low: 19% Approve and 77% Disapprove - American Research Group 20feb2008

• Subprime Loans Defaulting Even Before Resets - CNNMoney.com 20feb2008

• Fed Downgrades Forecast of Future Economic Activity - AP 20feb2008

• America’s Economy Risks Mother of All Meltdowns - Financial Times (UK) 19feb2008

• Wall St. Banks Confront a String of Write-Downs - New York Times 19feb2008

• Amtrak to Unveil New Security Measures Including Random Bag Screening - AP 18feb2008

• U.S. Retail Sales Show Increase Because Necessities Cost More - International Herald Tribune 17feb2008

• U.S. Struggles to Tutor Iraqis in Rule of Law - New York Times 16feb2008

• Think I'm a bear? Get a Load of This Banque AIG Global Strategist - Globe and Mail (Canada) 15feb2008

• Anti-war Activists Stage 'Kiss-In' at Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center: Protest price tag: $93,500 - East Bay Daily News 15feb2008

• Market Place New Trouble in Auction-Rate Securities - New York Times 15feb2008

• Paulson's Wild Ride on the Hindenburg: "The worst has just begun" - Information Clearinghouse 15feb2008

• The Next Crisis Will Be Over Food - Financial Times (UK) 14feb2008

• George W Bush's BBC Interview - BBC (UK) 14feb2008

• Americans Hostile to Knowledge: “The Age of American Unreason” -  New York Times Book Review 14feb2008

• Mortgage Servicers Next Victim of Housing Crisis - Reuters 14feb2008
• Obama: The Two Faces of Barack Obama - WSWS 14feb2008
• UBS Warns of a Difficult 2008 as Profits Dive: Confirms $18 Billion in Write-Downs - The Times (UK) 14feb2008
• Bernanke: Outlook for the Economy Worsened in Recent Months - AP 14feb2008
  • Bernanke Testimony before Congress: The Economy and Financial Markets 14feb2008
• Iraq's Broken Pieces Don't Fit Together - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 13feb2008
• US Credit Crisis Escalates as Defaults Spread - The Telegraph (UK) 13feb2008
• Student Loans: Credit Woes Hit Funding For Loans to Students - Wall Street Journal 13feb2008
  • Student Loans for Higher Education - Requested by CA Assemblymember Sally Lieber 2008
• Depression Risk Might Force U.S. to Buy Assets - Reuters 12feb2008
• Wiretapping: (Democratically-controlled) Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush's Secret Spy Program - Wired 12feb2008
• Bush: 9/11 Trials Compared to Nuremberg - AP 12feb2008
• Iraq: Army Buried RAND Study Faulting Iraq Planning - New York Times 11feb2008
• Burning Down the House: Kidding Ourselves There is an Economic Remedy - Life After the Oil Crash 11feb2008
• McCain: Reflections of President Fidel Castro: The Republican candidate (First part) President Fidel Castro Ruz 11feb2008
• New Hitches In Markets May Widen Credit Woes - Wall Street Journal 11feb2008
• NATO Speech by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates / Munich Conference on Security Policy / Munich, Germany 10feb2008
• Waterboarding: U.N. Says Waterboarding is Torture: Should be Prosecuted as Torture - Reuters 8feb2008
• Waterboarding: Mukasey: No, I Will Not Investigate - TPM Muckraker 7feb2008
• UK: 10 Million People May Default on Debt by End of Year - The Telegraph (UK) 7feb2008
• Economic Stimulus Package:  Meet the Weimar Dollar - The Smirking Chimp 7feb2008
• Bush: The Cult of Secrecy at the White House Editorial / New York Times 7feb2008
• Barack Obama and the Euphoria of Madness - Editorial / The Black Commentator 7feb2008
• Real ID Act a Real Intrusion on Rights, Privacy - Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6feb2008
• The ‘Nixon Flooding Plan’: How a ‘Unitary-Executive’ Was Ousted From the Presidency Without a House Impeachment or Senate Trial / A White Paper / National Coalition of We the People 5feb2008
• FISA: Sen. Jay Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth: Drift Nets To Be Legalized - Wired Blog 5feb2008
• "Unclaimed Property" Being Scooped Up by States From Millions of Americans  - Wall Street Journal 4feb2008
• Police Only Make Problems Worse for the Homeless - Renee Bowen / Street Spirit v.14, n.2, 1feb2008
• Internet Failure Hits Two Continents: Asia, Middle East and North Africa Crippled: Businesses Struggling to Cope - CNN 31jan2008
• Barack Obama May Win, But He’s No African-American - The Daily Sun (Nigeria) 31jan2008
• America's Most Miserable Cities - Forbes 30jan2008
• The Road To Hyperinflation: A Failure of Central Banking - Asia Times 30jan2008
• Foreclosures: Written Testimony of Mark Zandi, Chief Economist and Co-Founder, Moody’s Economy.com Before the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law: Hearing on “The Growing Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis: Identifying Solutions and Dispelling Myths” 29jan
• Home Prices Plunged a Record 8.4 Percent in November, Marking Two Years of Slowing Returns - AP 29jan2008
• Clinton: After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton: Frank Giustra, Uranium and Kazakhstan - New York Times 31jan2008
• Jérôme Kerviel: French Bank Rocked by Rogue Trader: Société Générale Blames $7.2 Billion in Losses On a Quiet 31-Year-Old -Wall Street Journal 25jan2008
• You Should Be Wary Of This Market Rebound - New York Post 24jan2008
• US Economy: What to Make of This Mess? - Life After The Crash 24jan2008
• US Recession Fears Provoke Continued Market Turmoil: Pushing on a Piece of String - WSWS 24jan2008
• Existing Single-Family Home Sales Drop by Largest Amount in 25 Years - AP 24jan2008
• Existing U.S. Home Sales Down 2.2%; Median Home Price Down 6.0% - Bloomberg 24jan2008
• Housing Slump Starts to Hit Stronger Cities: Supply Grows, Prices Weaken - Wall Street Journal 24jan2008
• Bush and Administration False Statements Preceded War - AP 23jan2008
• FISA: Scare Tactics - The Hill 23jan2008
• Why The Fed Can't Save Us: Bernanke and company are using up their limited ammunition - Fortune 22jan2008
• California Posts Record 31,676 Foreclosures - Los Angeles Times 22jan2008
• Black Monday: Recession Fears Spark Global Share Crash - The Guardian (UK) 22jan2008
• Fears of a Recession Spark a Global Selloff; New Pressure on the Fed - Wall Street Journal 22jan2008
• Asian, European Markets Plunge on Pessimism Over US Stimulus Plan: Too Little, Too Late, Won't Help - AP 21jan2008
• Collapse: WalMart and Waiting for the Shoe to Drop - Culture Change 20jan2008
• Canada to Rewrite Manual Linking U.S. and Torture: U.S. Lap Dog Turns a Blind Eye To Torture - New York Times 20jan2008
• Overseas Investors Buy Aggressively in U.S. - New York Times 20jan2008
• Job Data Passes Threshold Where Recessions Dwell - New York Times 19jan2008
• Supreme Court Denies Kucinich Bid: Texas to print presidential primary ballots without Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich's name - AP 19jan2008
• 3,915 Iraq Casualties: Names of the Dead - New York Times 19jan2007
• The Week the Economy Turned Nasty - The Independent (UK) 19jan2008
• Merrill Lynch: Springfield, Mass., Takes Aim at Merrill Over Subprime Losses - Wall Street Journal 19jan2008
• Economic Daisy-Chain - Credit Bubble Bulletin 18jan2008
• Bush Wants Fast Tax Aid to Boost Economy - AP 18jan2008
• Sprint Nextel to Cut 4,000 Jobs: Wireless carrier loses 683,000 postpaid customers - MarketWatch 18jan2008
• Russia-Backed Think Tank To Study Western Democracy - Wall Street Journal 18jan2008
• The Death of Mass Luxury - Business Week 17jan2008
• Obama: The Pimping of Black America: Why Much of the Corporate Media Supports Barack Obama - The Black Commentator 17jan2008
• Homebuilding: Sharpest Drop in 27 years: Declines Not Seen Since Past Recessions - CNNMoney 17jan2008
• Inflation Rate Worst in 17 Years - AP 16jan2008
• Supreme Court Backs Limits on Securities Fraud Suits - Reuters 15jan2008
• Citigroup Loses $9.8 Billion; Will Cut Jobs and Dividends  - New York Times 15jan2008
• IndyMac to Lay Off 24 Percent of Its Work Force to Slash Costs - AP 15jan2008
• Merrill Lynch Says USA Already in Recession - Computerworld 14jan2008
• Citigroup to Cut 20,000 Jobs and Slash Dividend - Bloomberg News 14jan2008
• Consumer Spending Shows Dramatic Slowing, Possibly Tipping Economy Into Recession - AP 14jan2008
• War Torn Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles - New York Times 13jan2008
• No Quick Fix to Economic Downturn - New York Times 13jan2008
• Pyramids Crumbling - Investment Outlook (PIMCO) 12jan2008
• $900 Gold: What's Behind It? - U.S. News & World Report 11jan2008
• FBI Wiretap Cut Off For Unpaid Bill[s] - Reuters 10jan2008
• Bush Jerusalem Visit Causes Massive Disruption - BBC News 9jan2008
• Shadow Banking System Down, Credit Out - Reuters 7jan2008
• Abu Ghraib: Only Officer Charged in Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Cleared - San Diego Union Tribune 10jan2008
• Obama: Double-Speak and Continuing U.S. Hypocrisy - The Black Commentator 10jan2008
• 3,000 More Marines Heading to Afghanistan - AP 9jan2008
• New Blows Hit Housing Industry: KB's Loss, Worries About Countrywide Spook Ailing Sector - Wall Street Journal 9jan2008
• Warning to the American People: “Thinking the Unthinkable” at the Democratic Presidential Debate - WSWS 8jan2008
• Housing Outlook Takes a Grim Turn: Countrywide Shares Tumble Amid Signs of Prolonged Housing Slump - AP 8jan2008
• 2008 Housing Outlook: Longer and Deeper with Double-Digit Declines - CNNMoney.com 7jan2008
• Flight to Gold as Investors Lose Faith in Money - The Telegraph (UK) 7jan2008
• Eat, Drink and Be Merry - For Tomorrow We Devalue the Pound - The Observer (UK) 6jan2008
• Democratic Debate in New Hampshire - Transcript / Federal News Service 5jan2008
• Unemployment Sounds Warning About Economy - New York Times 5jan2008
• Eyes Wide Shut: Our Economic Ship Continues to Leak - 321Gold.com 4jan2008
• Consumer Bankruptcy Filings Rose 40% in '07 - Wall Street Journal 4jan2008
• USA: We’re An Empire and When We Act, We Create Our Own Reality: Scheherazade in the White House - Le Monde diplomatique (Paris) 1jan2008
• Hey Candidates, Stop Pandering: Advice for the presidential campaigns - AARP Bulletin 1jan2008
• Cheapskates Go Green - Funny Times 1jan2008

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