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If you are targeted by a U.S. Attorney, you are pretty much out of luck. Innocent? That's no defense. Just ask Wisconsin's Keith Rob...

Few think that President Obama will actually carry through on his posturing on Iran and support an Israeli attack. The repercussions could b...

This morning, I was reading about Fond du Lac, Wisconsin praying to hell Mercury Marine keeps going and stays in Fondy. "Merc," I...

Update : Christian Menegatti in RGE Monitor : "The United States is in the 20th month of a recession that has been by far the longest a...

Update : John Judis ask in TNR "Are Banks Controlling Obama?" Sure seems that way. Let's call for an accounting of what went...

Trying to comprehend the Global Economic Crisis, a diligent lay reader can construct some broad narrative of the scale and motives of the fi...

In his When Things Fall Apart ( CounterPunch ) former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Paul Craig Roberts ...

Paul Craig Roberts has an annoying habit of being right. So, his piece in CounterPunch today, "Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?" is...

In December 2000, the Clinton administration announced projections that “ the United States is on course to eliminate its public debt within...

One does not need to be a Cassandra to suggest that the " world is at severe risk of a global systemic financial meltdown and a severe ...

Update II : 'Fear' Index at All-time Intraday High Update : Five percent down and dropping Paul Craig Roberts ought to be required r...

Before the bailout crisis dominated the political and financial news, a high-circulation political newsletter, CounterPunch , continued its ...

For differing perspectives on Wall Street, see: CounterPunch - "Call centers, IT operations, back-office operations, and manufacturing...

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editor...