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US Economy Shrinks as IMF Warns of Great Depression
Agence France-Presse: "The US economy shrank in the third quarter, official data confirmed Tuesday, as the IMF's top economist warned of a second Great Depression offering no respite from relentless gloom... ...
U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances
A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis. http://www.newsma x.com/headlines/military_d omestic_use/2008/12/23/164 765.html... ...
U.S. May Be in for 'Great Recession,' Longest Postwar
US manufacturing hits 26-year low: ISM The Institute of Supply Management said its manufacturing index slumped 2.7 points to 36.2 percent, far below the 50 percent level that separates expansion and... ...
The "Dirty Little Secret" Of the US Bank Bailout
By Barry Grey In an unusually frank article published in Saturday's New York Times, the newspaper's economic columnist, Joe Nocera, reveals what he calls "the dirty little secret of the banking industry"--namely,... ...
Change your leaders, change your life
Stranger than fiction National Review by Brendan O'Neill 10/27/08 Earlier this year, I wrote an eco-satirical column under the pseudonym Ethan Greenhart, in which I (or rather, Ethan) called upon Greens... ...
The Trillion Dollar Tag Sale: How the Pentagon Could Help Bail Out America
Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "Wars, bases, and money. The three are inextricably tied together. If the United States had never wasted the better part of a trillion dollars fighting a war in Vietnam and,... ...
Brazil, Argentina abandon US dollar
Brazil and Argentina have launched a new payment system in their bilateral trade, doing away with the US dollar as a medium of exchange. http://www.pres stv.ir/detail.aspx?id=7149 3&sectionid=3510213... ...
IMF Says World Economy Heading for `Major Downturn'
Global growth is headed for a "major downturn'' next year, as U.S. gross domestic product grinds close to a halt, the International Monetary Fund said in a staff report prepared for a Group of Seven meeting... ...
Tell World Leaders: Urgent Climate Change Action Cannot Wait for a Return to Economic Hyper-Growth
ACTION ALERT UPDATE PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! CLIMATE ALERT! Urgent Climate Change Action By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark, http://www.climateark.org/ October 5, 2008 TAKE ACTION Climate change... ...
A Hidden Toll on Employment: Cut to Part Time
Peter S. Goodman, of The New York Times, reports: "The number of Americans who have seen their full-time jobs chopped to part time because of weak business has swelled to more than 3.7 million - the largest... ...