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July 29, 2010

Mike Whitney
Trillions for Wall Street

Jordan Flaherty Rogue State: a Movement Rises in Arizona

Dave Lindorff
National Insecurity Complex

Ron Jacobs
The Story of Evo Morales

Mark Weisbrot
Jobs, Stimulus and Debt

Conn Haliinan
The Great Myth of Counter-Insurgency

Sheldon Richman
Government Has Run Amok Since 9/11

Brian M. Downing
Rising Tensions in the Persian Gulf

Website of the Day
An Interview with Julian Assange

July 28, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts
US Treasury is Running on Fumes

Gregory Elich
The Sinking of the Cheonan and Its Political Uses

Bruce McEwen
The Great Marijuana Boom

Jonathan Cook
Shin Bet Exposed

David Macaray
Taft-Hartley Revisited

Jeanine Molloff
The Predatory Nature of Home Loan Modifications

Barry Crimmins Sickened Ire: a Visit to St. Moneychanger's Hospital

Linn Washington
Another Reverse Racism Scam

John Grant
Letter to an American Hero: PFC Bradley Manning

Anthony Papa
Is Cameron Douglas' Life in Danger?

Website of the Day
Animal Cruelty But One CAFO Crime

 

July 27, 2010

Gareth Porter
The Afghan War Springs a Leak

Mike Whitney
A Decade of Declining Housing Prices

Chris Floyd
The Poor Must Die

Karl Grossman
Floating Chernobyls

Dean Baker
Blacking Out on the Economy

Marjorie Cohn
McCain on Iraq: "We Already Won That One"

Patrick Cockburn
Worse Than Hiroshima?

Steve Breyman
Afghanistan: the Inside Story

Heather Gray
How Shirley Sherrod Saved a White-Owned Farm in South Georgia

Randall Amster
Climate of Fear on the Border

Manuel Garcia, Jr
Dear Democrats, 2012

Website of the Day
BP and Academic Freedom

July 26, 2010

Bill Quigley
Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System

Marjorie Cohn
The 30-Year Incarceration of Carlos Alberto Torres

Jonathan Cook
Israeli Police Impunity

Paul Craig Roberts
The Year America Dissolved

John H. Summers
Fly Away, Mockingbird!

Clancy Sigal
The Future is Female ... and Republican

Steve Niva
Olympia Food Co-op Boycotts Israeli Goods

Greg Moses
What Capitalism Means to the Tea Party

Dave Lindorff
BP's Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy

Harvey Wasserman
Why Stewart Brand is Wrong About Nukes

Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Skeleton in John Yoo's Closet

Website of the Day
Will There be Enough Water?

July 23 - 25, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Frame-Up

Mike Whitney
Shadow Banking Makes a Comeback

Rannie Amiri
The Hariri Assassination: Israel's Fingerprints Surface

Anthony DiMaggio
War on Terror or War of Terror?

John Ross
Killer Governor Falls

Sam Smith
How to End the Tea Party (and Scare Obama at the Same Time)

Clare Bayard
A Slow Motion Katrina

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Not Bad Policy, But Class Policy

Ellen Brown
Why "Sovereign Debt" is an Oxymoron

Saul Landau /
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The Media and Cuba's Prisoner Release

Ramzy Baroud
Empty Declarations

Nicola Nasser
Who's Funding the Settlements?

Carl Finamore
Labor and Money Clash in 15 Cities

John V. Whitbeck
If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine? The ICJ Opinion on Unilateral Declarations of Independence

Brian Cloughley
Psychotic Morons: "It's Fun to Shoot Some People"

Roberto Rodriguez
The Story of Leticia X: an Arizona Tragedy

Maytha Alhassen
The Liquor Store Wars

Igor Atamenenko
Spying in the Red Dawn of Wi-Fi

Tom Turnipseed
Covert Government

David Swanson
Dropping the Bomb

Missy Beattie
The Mother of All Gushers

Doug Giebel
Progressive Bribery

Christopher Brauchli
Criminalizing First-Graders

Laura Flanders
Who Has Shirley Sherrod's Back?

Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
Electoral Reform: the Issue Progressives Love to Hate

Cpt. Paul Watson
Bye, Bye Rotten Butter Bombs

Kevin Zeese
Standing With Private Bradley Manning

Dr. Susan Block
G-Thanks, Dr. Burri

Charles R. Larson
Borges: the Harsh Realities of Place

Charles M. Young Playing in the Church of the Rev. Gary Davis: an Interview with Ernie Hawkins

Poets' Basement
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Website of the Weekend
The Killing Fields

July 22, 2010

Heather Gray
The Saga of Shirley Sherrod

Darwin Bond-Graham
Co-opting the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Gary Leupp
Obama's Afghan War in Perspective

Bruce E. Levine
How Psychologists Profit on Unending U.S. Wars

Greg Moses
Capital Strike?

Gerald E. Scorse
A Tax Cut Nobody Needs

Walden Bello
Greece and Wall Street

Paul Buccheit
The "Pursuit of Happiness" Means a Job

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Free and Equal

July 21, 2010

James Abourezk
Encounters With Sen. Robert C. Byrd

Mark Schuller
Opportunities in Haiti are Washing Away

David Underhill
BP Sticks Finger in Dike and All's Well ...

Jonathan Cook
Is the Israeli Right a More Credible Peacemaker?

Binoy Kampmark
The Secret Colossus

Dennis Bernstein
Cops Kill Again in Oakland

Jesse Jackson
The Big Disconnect

Brian J. Foley
Nice Work If You Can Get It

Tom Clifford
Political Pinups: Prague's Calendar Affair

Michael Donnelly
The Last of His Kind: Rock a While With David Vest

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July 20, 2010

Uri Avnery
Inside the Israeli Knesset

Gareth Porter
Why the CIA is Trying to Burn Amiri

John Stanton
America's Defense Associations: Key Cogs in the War Machinery

Adam Turl
Incident at Willow Lake Mine: Peabody Coal and the Death of Thomas Brown

David Price
Disrespecting the Yellow in the Tour de France

Stewart J. Lawrence
Why Obama's "Secure Communities" Program May be More Dangerous Than Arizona

David Macaray
Made in China

Franklin Lamb
Palestinian Rights in Lebanon

Shamus Cooke
Labor Fights Back

Mark Weisbrot
Life Imitates Art

Website of the Day
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July 19, 2010

Russell Mokhiber Thousands Injured, 275 Dead, WR Grace Not Guilty

Dean Baker
The Path of Unemployment

Patrick Cockburn
Leaving Iraq: The Ruin They'll Leave Behind

Jonathan Cook
Netanyahu: I Deceived the US to Destroy Oslo Accords

Nicola Nasser
Selling False Hope: the US and the Palestinians

Ray McGovern
The Iranian Scientist Who Would Not Play Curveball

Dave Lindorff
Cracking the Sea Floor: Fools' Errand in the Gulf

Greg Moses
Racism Implodes Tea Party

Sheldon Richman
The Bibi & Obama Show

Mikita Brottman The Beauties and the Beasts: Hollywood, Blondes and the Slaughter Industry

Website of the Day
Study: Gulf Clean-Up Efforts Ineffective, Harming Not Helping Birds

July 16 - 18, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Fall of Obama

John Ross
In the Basement of Mexican Justice, No One is Innocent

Andrew Cockburn
Worth It? the Human Price of Sanctions

Gareth Porter
Was Amiri a Double Agent?

Andy Worthington
US Sought Rendition of British Nationals to Gitmo

Jonathan Cook
Israel Stops Listening to Its Judges

Ralph Nader
Delta Blues: Can the Iranian Model Save Mississippi?

Chase Madar
Keep Cops Out of Schools: New York's Failed Experiment

Saul Landau
Reality Gap in the Gulf

Ramzy Baroud
The Culture of Resistance

Iris Keltz
Off the Grid in the South Hebron Hills

Jordan Flaherty
Days of Cop Violence in New Orleans

Bill Quigley / Rachel Meeropol
The Case of the AETA Four

Dave Lindorff
Cap and Blow?

Christopher Brauchli
Homeless in Boulder

Missy Beattie
Marketing Peace and War

Michael Barker
Foundations and Social Change: an Interview with Diana Johnstone

David Swanson
Give Rove What He Wants

Stewart J. Lawrence
Is Obama Backing Away From a Sweeping Immigration Legalization Program?

Ed Emery
Camels in Crisis

Sherwood Ross
What Tea Partiers Owe Progressives

Yves Engler
The Political Roadblocks to Haiti's Reconstruction

N. H. Gordon
What the Presbyterian Statement Didn't Say About Israel

Tom Turnipseed
Killing for Fun

Cpt. Paul Watson
Saving Endangered Feces

David Krieger
Shatterer of Worlds

David Ker Thomson
Put This in Your Tailpipe and Smoke It

Dan Bacher
How Oil Lobbyists Are Writing California's Environmental Laws

Lisa Barr
Exit Security Theatre, Enter Cindy Sheehan

Charles R. Larson
The Translator and His Charge

David Yearsley
Why Bach Didn't Go Swimming

Kim Nicolini
In the Court of the Lizard King

Poets' Basement
Ahmad & Orloski

Website of the Weekend
Rachel Corrie Soccer Tournament

July 15, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts
Economics in Freefall

Mike Whitney
Why the Fed is Steering the Economy Into Deflation

Frida Berrigan
Trillion Dollar Babies: Re-examining the Pentagon's Spending Habits

Yifat Susskind
Children of War

Dave Lindorff
How Bank of America Got Away With a Huge Swindle

Paul Krassner
Tuli is Better Off Dead

David Macaray
Three Cheers for the Post Office

Sebastian Walker
In Haiti the Sense of Urgency Has Been Lost

Anthony Papa
A Mentor to Men Behind Walls

Website of the Day
Phone Fight: Christian Bale v. Mel Gibson

July 14, 2010

Janan Abdu
A Prisoner's Wife

Ellen Brown
How Brokers Became Bookies

Anthony DiMaggio
Afghanistan in Ruins

Greg Moses
The Snitches of Utah

Sherwood Ross
The Living Legacy of James Meredith

Tolu Olorunda
Play the Music: One Record Store Owner Refuses to Go Out of Business

Mark Weisbrot
Exacerbating the Crisis in the Eurozone

Laura Flanders
Do Ask, Don't Tell

Sam Smith
How Progressives and Liberals are Different

Phil Rockstroh
A Heap of Broken Images

Website of the Day
Evil Bible

July 13, 2010

Jonathan Cook
Remote-Controlled Killing

Greg Dropkin Blockade! Dockworkers, Worldwide, Respond to Israel's Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege

Dean Baker
Reckless Drilling: BP's Carnage

George Wuerthner
Financial Entanglements: Wolves, Oil, Bureaucrats and Judges

Deepak Tripathi
The Dwindling of Afghanistan's Coalition of the Willing

Firmin DeBrabander
The Escalating Chemical War on Weeds

Billy Wharton
Obama and ACORN: a Post-Mortem

Roberto Rodriguez
A Crack Law By Any Other Name

Brian J. Foley
From Russia With Lovers

Sasha Kramer
Haiti: Frozen in Time

Website of the Day
Gitmo: the Definitive Prisoner List

July 12, 2010

James Abourezk
The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby

Harry Browne
World Cup Finale: "They Didn't Have to Deserve It ... They Were Just Playing"

George Ciccariello- Maher
Oakland's Verdict

Neve Gordon
Boycotting Israel: a Strategy, Not a Principle

Jonathan Cook
An Education Witchhunt

Linn Washington
Dispatch From Soweto

Dr. Susan Block
Bonobo Handshakes: Ape Sex, Chimp War, Human Ignorance and Some Hope

Jean Casella /
James Ridgeway

Supermax Takes a Hit

Dave Welsh
After 75 Years, Is It Time to Revive the WPA?

Bouthaina Shaaban
The Road to South America

Website of the Day
Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Industry Bedded Alice Waters

July 9 - 11, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Worst of Times, the Best of Times

Joanne Mariner
The Worst Supreme Court Decision of the Term

Mike Whitney
EU Banking System on the Brink

Rannie Amiri Business as Usual: Behind Turkey and Israel's Not-So-Secret Meeting

Ramzy Baroud
Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives

Michael Hudson
Latvia's Third Option

Jeffrey St. Clair / Joshua Frank Beyond Gang Green

Joe Bageant
Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball

Jesse Strauss
Streets of Rage: Searching for Justice in Oakland

James Ridgeway
Congress and the Oil Spill: Hot Rhetoric, Hollow Reform

Charles Hirschkind
The Myth of Impasse

M. Shahid Alam
Israel: a Failing Colonial Project

Ralph Nader Summer Reading: 10 Books That Might Change America

Carl Finamore Runaway Recession: How Did It Happen, How Bad Will It Get?

David Ker Thomson
What Toronto Tells Us About Our Lust for Leaders

John Ross
Drug Cartels Win Mexico's Super Sunday Elections

Rev. William E. Alberts
The General and the Bomber

Julie Hilden
Elena Kagan and the 1st Amendment: Reasons for Concern

Jefferson Chase
Hard Facts About Israeli/Palestinian Peace Peace Possibilities

Dave Lindorff
Just Business

Christopher Brauchli
Blackwater's Nine Lives

Gregory Vickrey
For the Want of Three Votes: Why Did Anti-War Democrats Vote For War Funding?

David Macaray
The Beer Summit Revisited

Soha Al-Jurf
The Boundaries of Delusion

Missy Beattie
Something Quite Atrocious

Laura Flanders
Who Fights and Why: Winter Bone, War and the Economic Crisis

Clare Hanrahan
Confronting Rendition to Torture in North Carolina

Patrick Bond
FIFA Forbids Free Speech at World Cup Fan Fest

Billy Wharton
Another Detroit is Happening!

Shamus Cooke
Andy Stern Joins the Corporate Elite

Lee Sustar
Teachers' Unions at the Crossroads

Harvey Wasserman
Losing LeBron: Has Chief Wahoo Cursed Cleveland Again?

Farzana Versey
Kashmir's Inner Demons

Binoy Kampmark
Population Panic Down Under

Winslow Myers
Best Practices

Charles Larson
Parallel History

David Yearsley
World Cup Anthems

Poets' Basement
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Gulf Spill News

 

July 8, 2010

Carl Ginsburg
Life in the Low to Mid-Teens

Paul Craig Roberts
Hillary Clinton's Latest Lies

Patrick Cockburn
The Chronic Failure of Israeli Leadership

Brian Cloughley
Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban

Sakura Saunders
Mining Through Roots

Jayne Lyn Stahl
Jump Starting the First Amendment

Eric Walberg
Wooing the West: US / Russian Relations

Chris Genovali /
Elizabeth Farries
Popping Grizzlies

Harry Browne
The Best Teams Got There and I Hope Catalunya Wins

Robert Bloom
A Presidential Tour Guide to Israel (Formerly Palestine)

Website of the Day
Mearsheimer: "No Accountability for Israel on Any Issue"

July 7, 2010

Anthony DiMaggio
Child Poverty: Forgotten Casualties of the Recession

Patrick Cockburn
No Woodshed for Netanyahu

Dean Baker
The Party of Unemployment

Gareth Porter / Ahmad Walid Fazly
"I Saw Them Taking the Bullets Out of the Body of My Daughter"

Nadia Hijab
Addressing the Settlements

Marjorie Cohn
Losing Afghanistan

William Blum
Some Thoughts on "Patriotism" Written on July 4th

Peter Gelderloos
Supporting the Prisoners of the G20 Police State

Carla Blank
When Kabuki is Not Kabuki

John Grant
Long Wars, Violence and Change in America

Website of the Day
Police State Canada

 

 

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July 29, 2010

Zilch for You Know Who

Trillions for Wall Street

By MIKE WHITNEY

On Tuesday, the 30-year fixed rate for mortgages plunged to an all-time low of 4.56 per cent. Rates are falling because investors are still  moving into risk-free liquid assets, like Treasuries. It's a sign of panic and the Fed's lame policy response has done nothing to sooth the public's fears. The flight-to-safety continues a full two years after Lehman Bros blew up. 

Housing demand has fallen off a cliff in spite of the historic low rates. Purchases of new and existing homes are roughly 25 per cent of what they were at peak in 2006. Case/Schiller reported on Monday that June new homes sales were the "worst on record", but the media twisted the story to create the impression that sales were actually improving! Here are a few of Monday's misleading headlines: "New Home Sales Bounce Back in June"--Los Angeles Times. "Builders Lifted by June New-home Sales", Marketwatch. "New Home Sales Rebound 24 per cent", CNN. "June Sales of New Homes Climb more than Forecast", Bloomberg.

The media's lies are only adding to the sense of uncertainty. When uncertainty grows, long-term expectations change and investment nosedives. Lying has an adverse effect on consumer confidence and, thus, on demand. This is from Bloomberg:

The Conference Board’s confidence index dropped to a 5-month low of 50.4 from 54.3 in June. According to Bloomberg News:

"Sentiment may be slow to improve until companies start adding to payrolls at a faster rate, and the Federal Reserve projects unemployment will take time to decline. Today’s figures showed income expectations at their lowest point in more than a year, posing a risk for consumer spending that accounts for 70 per cent of the economy.

“Consumers’ faith in the economic recovery is failing,” said guy LeBas, chief fixed-income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia, whose forecast of 50.3 for the confidence index was the closest among economists surveyed by Bloomberg. “The job market is slow and volatile, and it’ll be 2013 before we see any semblance of normality in the labor market." (Bloomberg)

Confidence is falling because unemployment is soaring, because the media is lying, and because the Fed's monetary policy has failed. Notice that Bloomberg does not mention consumer worries over "curbing the deficits". In truth, the public has only a passing interest in the large deficits. It's a fictitious problem invented by rich corporatists (and their think tanks) who want to apply austerity measures so they can divert more public money to themselves. In the real world, consumer confidence relates to one thing alone--jobs. And when the jobs market stinks, confidence plummets. This is from another article by Bloomberg:

"Consumer borrowing in the U.S. dropped in May more than forecast, a sign Americans are less willing to take on debt without an improvement in the labor market.

The $9.1 billion decrease followed a revised $14.9 billion slump in April that was initially estimated as a $1 billion increase, the Federal Reserve reported today in Washington. Economists projected a $2.3 billion drop in the May measure of credit card debt and non-revolving loans, according to a Bloomberg News survey of 34 economists.

Borrowing that’s increased twice since the end of 2008 shows consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 per cent of the economy, will be restrained as Americans pay down debt. Banks also continue to restrict lending following the collapse of the housing market, Fed officials said after their policy meeting last month" (Bloomberg)

Consumer confidence is falling, consumer credit is shrinking, and consumer spending is dwindling. Jobs, jobs, jobs; it's all about jobs. Budget deficits are irrelevant to the man who thinks he might lose his livelihood. All he cares about is bringing home the bacon. Here's a quote from Yale professor Robert Schiller who was one of the first to predict the dot.com and the housing bubble:

"For me a double-dip is another recession before we've healed from this recession ... The probability of that kind of double-dip is more than 50 per cent. I actually expect it."

There's no need for the economy to slip back into recession. It is completely unnecessary. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke knows exactly what needs to be done; how to counter deflationary pressures via bond purchasing programs etc. He has many options even though interest rates are "zero bound". But Bernanke has chosen to do nothing. Intransigence is a political decision. By the November midterms, the economy will  be contracting again, unemployment will be edging higher, and the slowdown will be visible everywhere in terms of excess capacity. The Obama economic plan will be repudiated as a bust and the Dems will be swept from office. The bankers will get the political gridlock they desire. Bernanke knows this. 

On Tuesday, a $38 billion Treasury auction drove 2-years bond-yields down to record lows. (0.665 per cent) Investors are willing to take less than 1 per cent on their deposits just for the guarantee of getting it back. Bond yields are a referendum on the Fed's policies; a straightforward indictment of Bernanke's strategy. Three years into the crisis and investors are more afraid than ever. The flight to Treasuries is an indication that the retail investor has left the market for good. It is a red flag signaling that the public's distrust has reached its zenith.

Presently, big business is awash in savings ($1.8 trillion) because consumers are on the ropes and demand is weak. The government's task is simple; make up for worker retrenchment by providing more fiscal and monetary stimulus. If private sector and public sector spending shrink at the same time, the economy will contract very fast and recession will become unavoidable. So, Go Big; create government work programs, help the states, rebuild infrastructure and support green technologies.  The economy is not a sentient being; it makes no distinction between "productive" labor and "unproductive" labor. The point is to keep the apparatus operating as close to capacity as possible--which means low unemployment and big deficits.

Increasing the money supply does nothing when interest rates are already at zero and consumers are slashing spending. Bernanke has added over $1.25 trillion to bank reserves but consumer borrowing, spending and confidence are still flat on the canvass.  The problem is demand, not the volume of money. Bernanke knows what to do, but he refuses to do it. He'd rather line the pockets of bondholders, bankers and rentiers. This is from Calculated Risk:

"This report from the National League of Cities (NLC), National Association of Counties (NACo), and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) reveals that local government job losses in the current and next fiscal years will approach 500,000, with public safety, public works, public health, social services and parks and recreation hardest hit by the cutbacks.

The surveyed local governments report cutting 8.6 per cent of total full-time equivalent (FTE) positions over the previous fiscal year to the next fiscal year (roughly 2009-2011). If applied to total local government employment nationwide, an 8.6 percent cut in the workforce would mean that 481,000 local government workers were, or will be, laid off over the two-year period."

The cutbacks will ravage local governments, state revenues and public services. Emergency facilities by the Fed provided $11.4 trillion for underwater banks and non banks, but nothing for the states. The GOP is helping the Fed strangle the states by opposing additional aid for Medicare payments and unemployment benefits. Many cities and counties will be forced into bankruptcy while Goldman Sachs rakes in record profits on liquidity provided by Bernanke. It's a disaster.

The bottom line? When Wall Street is hurting, money's never a problem.  But when the states are on the brink of default and 14 million workers are scrimping to feed their families, it's time for belt-tightening. Explain that to your kids.

Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com

 

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