By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10767 Global Research, October 31, 2008 For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration including the President and the Vice President have intimated, in no certain terms, that there will be “a Second 9/11″.  Quotations from presidential speeches and official documents abound. America is threatened: “The [...]

By Bob Kendall October 31, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse” — “PC” — Now that the U.S.A. has discovered that only Mexico and Turkey had poverty rates higher than the 30-country study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, what if anything will be done to help the U.S. poor obtain health care? Politicians, during campaigns, [...]

By Paul Craig Roberts October 30, 2008 ““Information Clearinghouse“” — What explains the paradox of the dollar’s sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate US exposure to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? The answer does not lie in improved fundamentals for the US economy or better [...]