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Travelers arriving at U.S. borders may soon be confronted with their laptops, PDAs, and other digital devices being searched, copied and even held by customs agents -- all without need to show suspicion for cause. A 51-page Privacy Impact Assessment also supported the right of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to copy, download, retain or seize any content from these devices, or the devices themselves, without assigning any specific reason for doing so.

With the U.S. economy still the driver of global demand (and retaining its hegemonic dollar position), consumer retrenchment in the U.S. could pose a serious threat to global stability

Obama the realist. Not the pragmatist. Certainly not the idealist. Realism as a doctrine: The principal purpose of U.S. foreign policy SHOULD be to manage relations between states, rather than to alter the nature of states. U.S. foreign policy shouldn't be in the business of nation-building.

Travelers arriving at U.S. borders may soon be confronted with their laptops, PDAs, and other digital devices being searched , COPIED and even HELD by customs agents -- all WITHOUT NEED to SHOW SUSPICION for CAUSE! .

The U.S. military was so fearful of classified information ending up on Wikileaks it considered ways to undermine the organisation, a newly published secret report on the site appears to show.

Isn't it fiinally time to enact a "basic income guarantee"? The lack of individual and family income security in the midst of a highly-developed economy is a travesty under any circumstances. But the contradiction of "poverty in the midst of plenty" that has plagued the world since the start of the Industrial Revolution is becoming much more grave in the U.S. and abroad. The problem, of course, is one of distribution of earnings, and excess production capacity relative to available income... Winston Churchill gave eloquent testimony to this conundrum of the modern age when delivering the Romanes Lecture at Oxford University on June 19, 1930. This was a few months after the crash of the U.S. stock market marked the start of the Great Depression. Churchill said: "Who would have thought that it would be easier to produce by toil and skill all the most necessary or desirable commodities than it is to find consumers for them? Who would have thought that cheap and abundant supplies of all the basic commodities would find the science and civilization of the world unable to utilize them? Have all our triumphs of research and organization bequeathed us only a new punishment: the Curse of Plenty? Are we really to believe that no better adjustment can be made between supply and demand? Yet the fact remains that every attempt has failed. Many various attempts have been made, from the extremes of Communism in Russia to the extremes of Capitalism in the United States. They include every form of fiscal policy and currency policy. But all have failed, and we have advanced little further in this quest than in barbaric times. Surely it is this mysterious crack and fissure at the basis of all our arrangements and apparatus upon which the keenest minds throughout the world should be concentrated.

Pollin, Robert | Baker, Dean Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal Publication Date: 12/17/2009

"Pollin, Robert | Garrett-Peltier, Heidi The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: An Updated Analysis Publication Date: 1/26/2010"

Pollin, Robert | Baker, Dean Reindustrializing America: A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs Publication Date: 4/28/2010

"Pollin, Robert | Heintz, James | Diomande, M. Ahmed Why U.S. Financial Markets Need a Public Credit Rating Agency Publication Date: 7/10/2009"

"Heintz, James | Garrett-Peltier, Heidi | Pollin, Robert Clean Energy Investments, Jobs, And U.S. Economic Well-Being: A Third Response To Heritage Foundation Critics Publication Date: 8/5/2009"

Pollin, Robert The U.S. Fiscal Deficit: Scare Stories vs. Reality Publication Date: 9/15/2009

The finance industry has effectively captured the U.S. government-a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets...Recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that's blocking essential reform.

Raúl M. Grijalva (born February 19, 1948) has been U.S. Representative (D-AZ) since 2003. His father was a migrant worker from Mexico who entered the United States in 1945 through the Bracero Program and labored on southern Arizona ranches.

Reviews changes in the financial condition of U.S. families, including developments in assets, liabilities, and debt payments.

The U.S. disclosed for the first time on Monday the current size of its nuclear arsenal, lifting the veil on once top-secret numbers in an effort to bolster non-proliferation efforts.

The U.S. spends 50% of total of all global military spending. War oligarchs are in control of the nation.

Chomsky: U.S. concerned about human rights only in the enemy countries http://t.co/ODoBSWy

RT @ThePeoplesCause: Why is Microsoft More Creditworthy Than U.S. Government?: How Corporate Tax Avoidance is Killing Our Economy > h ...

Both Republicans and Democrats have been explaining that "There Is No Alternative," we need public policies promoting austerity because government is "out of money." The question seems to be not "do we need austerity?" but "will we be austere sooner or austere later?" Meanwhile, the bipartisan consensus is that the government is definitely out of money. But these assertions are at odds with the common knowledge that the U.S. government literally creates its own money. Unlike the euro, the dollar is a sovereign, fiat currency, unconstrained by exchange rates or treaties. And since Nixon closed the gold window, government can issue dollars without waiting for gold or silver mines to provide any backing for them. So we can't possibly be "out of money," any more than the Bureau of Weights and Measures can be "out of inches."