The Vanishing American Consumer and the Coming Trade War
Robert Reich Huffington Post President Obama has vowed to double U.S. exports within the next five years. That’s because exports are critical for rebooting the…
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An Energy Bill Wrapped in an Enigma
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones The new package is supposed to be finalized next week. So why doesn’t anyone know anything about it? Senate Democrats plan…
The Welfare-Warfare Crackup
Jacob G. Hornberger Future of Freedom Foundation For decades, libertarians have been warning Americans of the coming crack-up of the welfare-warfare state. Of course, we…
Obama to Bypass Senate to Name Health Official
Robert Pear New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama will bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald M. Berwick, a health policy expert, to run Medicare…
Celente Says Populists Will Break the False Left-Right Political Paradigm
Eric Blair Activist Post Trends Research Institute CEO, Gerald Celente, originally predicted the rise of a third party when he spoke with Libertarian radio talk…
Republicrats and Pandora
Daniel O’Connor Campaign For Liberty The story of Pandora’s Box derives from ancient Greece and remains very relevant today but is not well understood, and…
The latest threat to the global recovery – state capitalism
Kamal Ahmed Telegraph A fascinating new book is about to hit the shelves. Called The End of the Free Market it argues that all-powerful governments…
Has the American Dream Become Our Nightmare?
The time is ripe for us to rethink some of our deepest beliefs about the way this country should work, and how we should live…
Audit the Fed Sellouts: Previous Co-Sponsors Bow to Banks
HR 1207 Hall of Shame Written by: Andrew Nappi Tenth Amendment Center “Yesterday, the House rejected Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed by a vote of…
Senator Feingold: Financial Reform ‘Caves’ to Wall Street
Statement by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) WASHINGTON – Wall Street and its allies have been calling the shots in Congress for decades, so they must…
Madhouse Medical Tyranny: When Health Becomes Sickness
John Galt Activist Post Dictatorships know that the battle for complete control is ultimately won or lost in the minds of the target population. As…
The Debtors Prison System Resurrected From The Grave
Update about the revival of the debtors prison in America Debtors prisons were abolished on the federal level in 1833. In Accomack County, VA it…
False Left-Right Choice: We Need a Real Populist Movement
By Jim Hightower – Alternet If a political pollster came to my door and asked whether I consider myself a conservative or a liberal, I’d answer, “No.”…
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers
Comment: I thought that a leader behaving without Congressional oversight was called a dictator. And of course this new bill is sponsored by Joe Lieberman…