"We are the dead, can we be saved?" - Thrice

Auditors fault Treasury oversight of bailout funds

The government must toughen its monitoring of the $700 billion financial bailout to ensure that banking institutions limit their top executives' pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors said Tuesday in the first comprehensive review of the rescue package.

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In the Belly of the Beast - Report from a Homeless American

As merely one of approximately 3 1/2 million Americans who have at some point experienced an extended period of homelessness, I'm queried from time to time by family members confessing, "I don't understand why you can't just 'get a job'?" Human nature being what it is I suppose;  …

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Has the West Reached Its Limits?

by Richard C. Cook "Train-wreck" doesn't even begin to describe what is starting to happen to the U.S. today with the financial crisis, an onrushing depression, and the failure of George W. Bush's war policy as he is faced down by Iran and the Russian bear.

Status Report on the Collapse of the U.S. Economy

"With the economic news of the week of July 14—the continuing crisis among mortgage lenders, the onset of bank failures, the announced downsizing of General Motors, the slide of the Dow-Jones below 11,000—we are seeing the ongoing collapse of the U.S. economy.

A Crisis in Leadership - Crimes Against Humanity

Please watch the video accompanying this article entitled, "Crimes Against Humanity: Crisis in Leadership".

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A 'War on Terror' - When 'Insanity' Ruled the World

Reporting on the progress of America's 'war on terror' beginning Tuesday of this last week, both U.S. General David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker appeared before the House Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations.

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Revolution, Anarchy, or Madness?: A Crisis in American Leadership

For me, Steven Kazmierczak's shooting incident at NIU is only the most recent in a series of similar, recurring nightmares over nearly a decade now.

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Repress U

by Michael Gould-Wartofsky "Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus.

A Crisis in American Leadership (Part Four) - Exploiting Our Moral Vagrancy

Utilizing some of the latest internet advances, this article offers a comprehensive history of the 'New World Order' and further reveals its ongoing development since 9/11.

A Crisis in American Leadership (Part Three)

The third installment of the series, this segment ties together what have been disassociated historical elements in revealing little known circumstances prior to the Federal Reserve's creation.

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As a 58 year-old divorced father of two young adults and grandfather, Brian is currently a member of Roanoke's homeless community.

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    WASHINGTON: The State Department, specifically Hillary Clinton, has almost categorically declared that they are no longer interested in saving President Asif Ali Zardari if he falls in his current battle for survival, waging in the superior courts of Pakistan.

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