Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The Indypendent #118: Down and Out - Your pain is Wall Street's gain

The latest issue of The Indypendent is out. Below are the two main stories on the economy.

By Max Fraad Wolff
Posted in National
House prices need to continue to fall and will. This will place increasing pressure on household balance sheets. To begin to address the situation, we need to concentrate on elevating earnings and reducing debt levels. read more »

By A.K. Gupta
Posted in National
Unless you live in a bubble, like George Bush, who expressed total surprise in February when a reporter told him gas was nearing $4 a gallon, you've been socked hard in the pocketbook by rising prices. read more>>

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Indypendent's Arun Gupta on Democracy Now!


Respected Indypendent journalist, Iraq War specialist and my good friend Arun Gupta was in a three-way debate on General Petraeus' role in the Iraq War. There are video and audio streams.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/9/as_petraeus_urges_delay_of_troop

(Photos from Democracy Now!)