The era of the American Internet is ending.

Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the… Continue reading

According to the New York Times, Financial Times, and others, hedge funds and other investors are buying up farms, farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators, shipping equipment and other necessities for producing food.Given… Continue reading

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union are near a deal on letting law enforcement and security agencies obtain private information like credit card transactions and travel histories about people on… Continue reading

Last week, the New York Times reported that four Western oil companies — Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, and BP — are in the final stages of negotiating no-bid oil contracts “to service Iraq’s largest… Continue reading

An Ohio historian may be caught between a rock and some hard time.

Nine months after Steven Shaffer of Ironton, Ohio, led an effort to remove an 8-ton boulder from the Ohio River, a Greenup… Continue reading

You probably didn’t hear about the House voting to ban Pentagon propaganda last Thursday — since the television networks have once again conveniently failed to cover the story.

But in a surprise move, a 2009 defense… Continue reading

In order to “monitor and map illicit file sharing activity on popular P2P networks, web sites, and chat rooms,” the feds are pushing the scourge of child porno, supposedly rampant on the… Continue reading

To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to… Continue reading

“They make a desolation and call it peace.” -Tacitus

Was Alan Greenspan really as dumb as he looks in creating the late housing bubble that threatens to bring the entire Western debt-based economy crashing… Continue reading

Taxing Us for Breathing

Real Clear Politics | March 12, 2007
Robert Tracinski

Last week, the New York Times published an extraordinary editorial complaining that “Right now, everyone is using the… Continue reading

(CBS)Â Americans think the U.S. health care system is in need of major repairs, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll.

Nine out of 10 say the system needs at least fundamental changes, including 36… Continue reading

The second Great Depression
By Mike Whitney
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Feb 22, 2007, 00:45

“The US economy is in danger of a recession that will prove unusually long and severe. By any measure it is in far worse… Continue reading