SchwartzReport: Fukushima Fries the West Coast 28 Ways — US Map & Links — Deeply Frightening, Pity There Is No One Attending to the Public Interest….

This is the latest on Fukushima and the impact it is making on the U.S. West Coast. This directly affects me, as well as tens of millions of other Americans, and there doesn’t seem to be a thing we can do about it. 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear …

Josh Kilborne: 80% of US Adults Near Poverty, Relying on Welfare, or Are Unemployed?

80% Of US Adults Are Near Poverty, Rely On Welfare, Or Are Unemployed Despite consumer confidence at a six-year high, the latest AP survey of the real America shows a stunning four out of five U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, are near poverty, or rely on welfare for at least parts of their lives amid …

Berto Jongman: Pakistan’s Bin Laden Dossier & Commission Report on Abbottabad

Pakistan’s Bin Laden dossier Al Jazeera exclusive: The investigation into the death of al-Qaeda’s leader blames top leaders for ‘gross incompetence’. EXTRACT: The Commission’s 336-page report is scathing, holding both politicians and the military responsible for “gross incompetence”, leading to “collective failures” that allowed Bin Laden to escape detection, and the United States to perpetrate …

Chuck Spinney: Be Very Afraid — Obama Kept the Debt He Promised to Write Down and Now Pressure is On for Governments to Sell the Commonwealth Piece by Piece

From the Bubble Economy to Debt Deflation and Privatization Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, 2013-07-05 The Federal Reserve’s QE3 has flooded the stock and bond markets with low-interest liquidity that makes it profitable for speculators to borrow cheap and make arbitrage gains buying stocks and bonds yielding higher dividends or interest. In principle, one could borrow at …