French Senate Passes Pension Bill
BBC The French Senate has passed a controversial pension reform bill, which has caused a series of strikes and protests around France. The senators approved…
Lifestyle
The Killing and Reviving the American Dream
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Lew Rockwell USA Today loves to run lifestyle features that purport to show how we are living, what we are doing, what…
Gov’t: No call for Social Security increase in 2011
Stephen Chlemacher Associated Press WASHINGTON – As if voters don’t have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce…
The Illusion of Pension Savings
Mary Williams Walsh NY Times Earlier this year, Illinois said it had found a way to save billions of dollars. It would slash the pensions…
Secretive Executive Order Establishes ‘Big Brother’ Health Bureaucracy
Eric Blair Activist Post On June 10th, 2010, amidst the chaotic 24-hour oil spill coverage, Barack Obama quietly signed an Executive Order that some claim…
Survival Personality: Develop Your Intuition – Modern Homesteading
Matthew Stein Mother Earth News The following is an excerpt from When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein (Chelsea Green, 2008). This comprehensive primer on sustainable…
A New Look at Native American Farming
New American Farmer Native American farming is nothing new. In most American schools, we were taught that, in general, Native Americans were hunters and gatherers…
10 Practical Steps To Insulate Yourself From The Coming Economic Collapse
The Economic Collapse Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that this “recession” will end and that the “good times” will return soon, but…
Ten Reasons to Become Self-Sufficient and Ten Ways to Get There
Michael Edwards and Jeffrey Green Activist Post We are now three to five generations removed from the rural backbone that strengthened America. The world at…
10 Ways Retirement Abroad Can Help Keep You Young
Susan Beverley Escape From America Magazine We’re all well aware of the term ‘having a bad hair day’ – after all most of us have…
Retirement Nightmare: Half of Americans Have Less Than $2000 Saved
Scott Thill Alternet With declining earnings and a culture of borrow-and-consume, America’s workers face a future of uncertainty and little money to pay for their…
Banksters are Coming for Your Retirement Next
Eric Blair Activist Post First, the banksters hoodwinked an angry public into bailing out their collateralized-debt obligations and derivative Ponzi scheme to the tune of…