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When History is Lost We Are Truly Blind By Aaron Hesse What is missing from the narrative surrounding Iran and its nuclear program is a...

An intrinsically unstable private-capital/State arrangement   By Charles Hugh Smith Forget "austerity"and political theater...

"Perils" of Immigration Asian-Americans are now the country's best-educated, highest-earning and fastest-growing racial ...

It is only a matter of time By MARY M. LANE Passing a more-generous bailout for Greece through Germany's parliament could prove e...

The Killing of US Economy by Alan Caruba If there was no other reason to defeat President Obama in November, it would be the planned...

Dead Drunk for Tuppence by Theodore Dalrymple Britain is the only country known to me in which drunkenness is an ideology: that is to ...

Child abuse and the British public By Andrew O’Hagan On 23 May 1949, Lionel Gamlin, producer of the Light Programme’s   Hello Children...

A dark Energy Future For Europe by Marin Katusa Exxon Mobil is no longer the world's number-one oil producer.   As of yesterday, ...

Pesos Go Underground as Dollar Ban Backfires By Katia Porzecanski  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s foreign-excha...

Other People's money have run out already By Wolf Richter References to the financial crisis are piling up in France’s economic dat...

Illinois Debt Takes Toll, Study Finds By  MARY WILLIAMS WALSH For years, Illinois has racked up billions in public debt to plug budge...

Hark! The Herald Angels Aren't Singing  “No matter where you stand, no matter how far or how fast you flee, when it hits the fan, ...

Controversial Muslim preacher and “inspirer” of the largest charter school network in America By Claire Berlinski W ith the American e...

Sovereign Self-Interest Versus European Hegemony “Markets can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent… “ By Blain...

Eurozone Lending Sinking Fast; Money Supply Contracts by Mike "Mish" Shedlock A collapse in demand for credit is underway in...

Neil Barofsky on “Incestuous Orgy” Between Washington and Wall Street   It was Bill Moyers who used the expression “incestuous orgy” in ...

The Incredible Shrinking President By Mark Steyn ‘We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video,” said Hi...

Unification or Protectorate ? By   Robert Kaplan & Rodger Baker As we have pointed out previously, in the principal divided-count...

If life is sacred, how can we justify the random killing of innocent children? By JACK HUNTER My pro-life position is simple: Life is ...

More direct funding for Greece from euro zone member states looks inevitable By Jan Strupczewski Greek debt will be above the target ...