Pick Your Poison

By Joel Hirshhorn One of the hardest truths to accept is that for most sources of pain hitting humans there seems to be nothing effective for government to do.  Nowadays, those of us who do not gobble various distractions but work to stay connected to reality see two dreadful conditions.  Nature seems mad as hell.  [...]

Despicable Lies, Delusional Recovery

By Joel Hirschhorn The US government lies.  Sure looks like most Americans gobble up false and misleading information that is nothing less than political propaganda.  Take the highly hyped unemployment number for March, 2011 of 8.8 percent that moved like a tornado through the media and was praised by Democrat politicians and the White House.  [...]

The Fed’s war on America’s people

By Jerry Mazza. Republished from Dandelion Salad. It was Abraham Lincoln who followed his Constitutional right to coin a US currency. President Lincoln created US Greenbacks from 1862-1871, printed by the US mint, delivered to the US Treasury to conduct and pay off the Civil War debt. Yet, after his tragic (if not related) assassination, the [...]

The Fed’s war on America’s people

By Jerry Mazza. Republished from Dandelion Salad. It was Abraham Lincoln who followed his Constitutional right to coin a US currency. President Lincoln created US Greenbacks from 1862–1871, printed by the US mint, delivered to the US Treasury to conduct and pay off the Civil War debt. Yet, after his tragic (if not related) assassination, the [...]

US downwardly revises fourth quarter GDP

By Barry Grey. Republished from WSWS. In a further sign of economic weakness, the Commerce Department on Friday downwardly revised its figure for US economic growth in the final three months of 2010. The department reported that the US gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 2.8 percent on an annual basis in the fourth quarter, [...]

New Zealand government outlines spending cuts, asset sales

By Tom Peters. Republished from WSWS. In a “state of the nation” speech late last month, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced that his conservative National Party government would once again slash new operating spending in this year’s budget—from an already grossly inadequate $NZ1.1 billion to as little as $800 million. Key also outlined [...]

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