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By David Glenn Cox
I sometimes don’t know who I am anymore. As I was walking to the library and I saw a younger man in a business suit buying gas. I thought to myself, “I used to be him.” He looked well dressed but not prosperous driving a company car and a little unsure of the neighborhood and it made me smile. Then I saw a guy in his twenties shaggy haired pulling out of some apartments and he looked as if he was trying to shake off last night’s buzz or maybe leaving his paramour’s den (…)

9/11 ANALYSIS: 9/11 and America’s Secret Terror Campaign The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda, Part III
by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 10, 2010
Anticipating An Attack For several years prior to the events of 9/11, top American strategists had been acknowledging the necessity of what they oft-termed a “new Pearl Harbor”, a momentous attack upon America itself, in order to mobilize the American populace for a new global war of domination. As Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote (…)

Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda: The Anglo-American Terror Network The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda, Part II
by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 8, 2010
The End of the Cold War and Strategy for the New World Order With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a (…)

Our Long National Nightmare Isn’t Over, It’s Just Beginning
by David Michael Green
In the 1930s, the only thing we had to fear was fear, itself.
Today, the main thing we have to fear is us, ourselves.
Looking out over the horizon, I’m starting to wonder just how many shades of dark there are on the pallette. Lately, I get the feeling that we’re about to find out.
I wish I could say that this society did our best to fight our demons, but that the odds were simply insurmountable. (…)

AMERICA HAS A STRUCTURAL PROBLEM
Submitted by Gordon T Long on Wed, 8 Sep 2010
Obama’s Economic Advisors have failed him! It’s a STRUCTURAL problem not a CYCLICAL problem!
It’s a DEMAND problem not a SUPPLY problem!
I gave President Barrack Obama six months to roll-out his doomed Keynesian policies, twelve months to discover they were flawed and eighteen months to realize that the solution to America’s problems must lie within a different economic framework. I had hoped by the end of (…)

On Creators of Currency and the Sovereign Debt Crisis
ECONOMICS | EDWARD HARRISON | SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 11:30 PM
When people talk about the recent sovereign debt crisis they make a lot of sweeping statements about debt and currency which allow them to make false analogies. This does us all a disservice because it creates a false impression about the nature of constraints which government faces in dealing with the credit crisis.
The reality is that different sovereigns face very different (…)

What collapsing empire looks like
BY GLENN GREENWALD
As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay. But a new New York Times article today illustrates as vividly as anything else what a collapsing empire looks like, as it (…)

Moody’s Downgrades A Village In New York As America Retains Its AAA Rating
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/08/2010
New York State Rating Agency ratings recovery Tax Revenue
Ever wonder how Moody’s keeps itself busy in all the free time it has when it is not focusing on how to break the news that the US is really a B-rated credit? Here it is: the rating agency is now focusing on the ratings of villages (in this case the Village of Johnson City) with $8.1 million in debt and 14k (…)

A Chronicle of America’s Very Great Depression – Two growing trends: A historical reversal of global financial balances / An implosion of the US society Excerpt GEAB N°14 (April 16, 2007) -
America’s 2007 Very Great Depression has indeed begun; and represents the US dimension of the phase of impact of the global systemic crisis LEAP/E2020 anticipated early 2006, knowing that the US are the central pillar of the global order created after 1945. The structural weakening of the US is (…)

GOLD ENTERING A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE
Fundamental and technical factors for gold are now in total harmony and gold is entering a virtuous circle that will drive the price up at its fastest pace since this bull market started in 1999. It is a fact that gold in US dollars (and many other currencies) has gone up 400% in eleven years or 16% per annum annualised. It is a fact that the US dollar has declined 80% in value against gold since 1999. It is a fact that the dollar and most other currencies (…)