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Sweden AMS unemployment rate July, at 5.2% versus 5.3% expected. Norwegian Retail Sales MoM June, at -1.1% versus -1.2% expected. Norwegi...

Bush Pilot This explains EVERYTHING!

Public Pension Plans Face Billions in Shortages And that may well understate the gap: Barclays Global Investments has calculated that if Ame...

The Fed on Tuesday halted a more than two-year string of interest-rate rises, holding its benchmark rate steady at 5.25% while it gauges whe...

Bush, Rice, Twerps, and Children in Power by Fred Reed I’m wondering. Help me wonder. Either Georgie Bush is the minor, depressing, witless ...

The Fed reported that YoY consumer borrowing rose 5.7% in June, up sharply from a 3.3 percent increase in May. Japan 's July foreign ex...

Good as gold? Commentary: Questions about market manipulation, missing M3 figures When last calculable, the chart of this was ominous: Turk ...

Fed admits US recession on cards As Fed chairman Ben Bernanke prepares to decide whether to raise American interest rates for the 18th time ...

International crime rings, not hackers, true Internet villains More than two billion dollars will be stolen this year by online "phishi...

Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003? Half of America appar...

Shortly before invasion, Bush didn't know there were two sects of Islam Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming Preside...

Ethanol war brewing Everywhere you look these days, tech and business world luminaries - like Richard Branson, Paul Allen, Steve Case, Vino...

The U.S. unemployment rate rose from 4.6% to 4.8% in July, weaker than expected. After the report, fed funds futures priced in a 16% chance ...

CONTRA KELO Ohio’s top court has told the U.S. Supreme Court, "Thanks, but no thanks" for its rationale in Kelo v. City of New Lon...

China hit by rising air pollution China is the world's largest sulphur dioxide polluter, emitting nearly 26m tons of the gas in 2005. Ne...

U.S. jobless claims were up 14,000 last week to 315,000, more than expected. The U.S. economy’s service sector growth, the biggest part of ...

‘The Trouble With You, Blumert’ I want to make LewRockwell.com’s already vast reach even vaster. I want to spread the truth about peace, fre...

Banking on War In the end, it is worthwhile to remember that whenever you see George W. Bush talking about winning the "War on Terror,...

Bank of Japan Policy Board member Atsushi Mizuno said on Wednesday it would be a mistake to think there will be no more rate rises this yea...

The core personal consumption expenditure index, a measure that strips out food and energy prices and is closely watched by the Federal Rese...

Life After Earth When the dust settles after World War III, or World War IX, humanity will still want to grow pineapples, rice, coffee and o...

US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre ..the centre will have to produce and stockpile the world's most lethal bact...

The Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index increased from 56.5 to 57.9 in July, stronger than expected. Retail sales in Germany rose 1.9% i...

The Peculiar Disappearance of the War in Iraq As America fell into the quagmire of Vietnam, the comedian Milton Berle joked that the fastes...

Cheney-Specter bill: a blank check for spying Cheney-Specter bill: a blank check for spying The so-called "compromise" legislation...

Welcome To My Parlor by William S. Lind Operationally, Hezbollah’s rocket attacks on Israel are the matador’s cape. That too is working. Wha...

''Escalating Conflict in the Middle East Could Spark a Global Recession'' As the war between Israel and Lebanon escalates, g...

Millions of children to be fingerprinted British children, possibly as young as six, will be subjected to compulsory fingerprinting under Eu...

Mandelson: US greed caused the Doha collapse ..Washington should have been prepared to trade cuts in support for its farmers against gains e...

Dollar Bear Market Resumes as Outlook for Higher Rates Fades Most traders surveyed by Bloomberg say the dollar 's tumble will continue t...

The Karamazov Question What Price for Paradise? by CHRIS FLOYD "They have put too high a price on harmony; we can't afford to pay s...

Cabinet in open revolt over Blair's Israel policy The Observer can also reveal that at a cabinet meeting before Blair left for last Frid...

For Syria's envoy, no calls from the White House Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, has not had a single meeti...

The U.S. Department of Commerce said the U.S. economy grew at a below forecast 2.5 percent annual rate last quarter, less than half the spe...

Gonzales Worried About War Crime Charges Tide of Arab Opinion Turns to Support for Hezbollah The Saudi royal family and King Abdullah II of...

France 's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 9.0 pct in June from 9.1 pct in May. U.S. Durable goods were up 3.1% in June, mo...

Iran: The Next War Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon officials were plotting to invade another country. Thei...

A Bank of Japan official suggested the next interest-rate hike might come sooner than some had expected. The Federal Reserve's Beige B...

The Case for the Barbarous Relic With this comes a belligerent and blind nationalism that has affected the whole culture in one degree or a...

The Lawless State If the Founding Fathers could see us now, they’d surely ask, “How on earth did you get yourselves into this mess?” We’ve m...

Existing home sales fell 1.3% MoM, down 8.9% YoY, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday U.S . consumer confidence fell slightly ...

Israel Is Winning the Battle, But Not the War Although the Americans have run into a quagmire in Iraq, they finally realize, at least theor...

Retail sales in Canada totaled C$32.6 billion in May, down 0.6% on the month, but up 7.4% YoY. The Reserve Bank of India is expected to ra...

ACTING LIKE NAZIS George W. Bush exceeded Hitler's 50-to-1 ratio.

Doha trade talks collapse over farm subsidies countries including the EU and India said that the US needed to reform its farm subsidies firs...

Pressure put on US as G8 prepares way for trade deal The US suggested it could scale back on farm subsidies; Europe said it could make bigge...

"Stop That Shit!" By URI AVNERY And the most disgusting sight: George Bush in a playful mood sitting on his chair in St. Petersb...

Elegy for Beirut The anger that any human soul should feel at such suffering and loss was expressed so well by Lebanon's greatest poet, ...

Iranian Ambassador: We Support Turkey's Possible Cross-Border Operation “ Turkey has the right to annihilate terrorists wherever they a...

James Zogby: Willful Fantasies and Reality in Today's Mideast Conflict While some conservatives and Democrats have learned lessons from ...