The defeat of the Harvard University debate team by a team from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills elucidates a truth known…
Economy of the United States
Hedge funder Martin Shkreli reminded everyone of the sky-high—and seemingly arbitrary—costs of prescription medicines in this country when he bought and immediately increased the price…
This article was first published by Global Research in October 2008 “Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They…
In the United States, disaster has become our most common mode of life. Proof that our daily existence was something other than a simmering, smoldering…
Imagine your doctor put you on a daily dose of oxycontin, phenobarbital and Quaaludes for six years straight. Then he suddenly cancelled your prescription. Do…
Correspondent Bart D. recently speculated that the U.S. stock market was now “too big to fail,” that is, that it was too integral to the…
The financial markets have been through some wild and crazy times over the last two weeks, although it appears that they have finally stabilized. The…
The tremors rattling markets are not exactly what they seem to be. A meme prevails that these movements represent a kind of financial peristalsis —…
It’s entertaining to watch and to read reports in the corporate media about the current stock market decline, which over the course of the last…
In the first episode we showed how the US became an unsustainable service sector based economy from the 1970s onward when service sector employment diverged from manufacturing…
That 1776 Declaration of Independence from Britain’s King George by the United States of America has been echoed by many US Presidents, and Mr Obama…
Gina and Bob Nikkel keep us abreast of cutting edge, pioneering work sponsored by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care, including the Voice…