Earlier this month, Bank of America (BOA), the country’s largest bank, announced a moratorium on foreclosures in all 50 states.

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Corporations work to gain power, monopoly power. These corporations have power you aren’t aware of.

This is the second in a two-part series about my visit to the Rainman Landcare Foundation in Durban, South Africa. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.

In an eerie echo of John McCain’s false claim of security in a Baghdad market, Lisa Murkowski has made a similarly false and fatal claim in Afghanistan.

All of the signs are pointing to the imminent collapse of the US dollar. The FED’s willingness to print unlimited quantities of them to create the appearance of stability will lead to hyperinflation.

People in this country have fallen in love with the stock market. In doing this they overlook what it realy is. By doing that they have put themselves at the mercy of the big money that runs the show.

Cross-posted at River Twice Research.

We are now in the season of scapegoats. The brays for justice and villains grow daily, and this week has seen a walk of shame as various participants in the credit debacle sit in front of Congress to be scolded and upbraided for their sins. Many of the goats today, and none more than former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, were heroes only a short while ago – yet another vivid illustration of the ancient words of the mythical king Croesus: “Count no man happy till he’s dead,” or to put it another way, “it ain’t over till it’s over.”