Some recent Essays (and other Internet Objects) I found insightful:

• * Kevin P. Phillips, Numbers racket: Why the economy is worse than we know, Harper's Magazine, May 2008.


• * Chris Floyd, Gobblers on Parade: Portrait of a Highly Successful System, Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd Online, 01 September 2008.


• * William Pfaff, Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan, TruthDig.com, 11 September 2008.


• The Falling Land, Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd Online, 11 September 2008.


• * Katherine Roberts, A Western State of Mind, The New York Times, 13 September 2008.
  (Discusses sociological, economic, and political issues associated with the former frontier states of the western U.S.)


• * A Year of Heavy Losses - Interactive Graphic, The New York Times, 15 September 2008.


• * Dmitry Orlov, Reinventing Collapse, RealitySandwich.com, 15 September 2008.
  (Excerpt of Chapter 2 from Orlov's book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, New Society Publishers, June 2008: publisher, Amazon.com.)


• Tariq Ali, Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?; The American War Moves to Pakistan: Bush's War Widens Dangerously, TomDispatch.com, 16 September 2008.


• * Rachel Weiner, Conservatives Turn On McCain-Palin, The Huffington Post, 16 September 2008.
  (Quotes from various conservative political analysts.)


• Robert Creamer, Why the Financial Meltdown Reflects the Fundamental Failure of the Bush-McCain Economic Philosophy, The Huffington Post, 16 September 2008.


• Robert J. Samuelson, Wall Street's Unraveling, The Washington Post, 17 September 2008.


• Paul Jenkins, The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party, The Huffington Post, 17 September 2008.
  (A concise summary of why McCain and the Republican Party are unfit to rule.)


• Tim Wise, What Privileges Do McCain and Palin Receive Because They're White?, AlterNet.org (via BuzzFlash), 17 September 2008.


• Nouriel Roubini, The transformation of the USA into the USSRA (United Socialist State Republic of America) continues at full speed with the nationalization of AIG, RGE Monitor, 17 September 2008.
  (Describes the "transformation of the USA into a country where there is socialism for the rich, the well connected and Wall Street (i.e. where profits are privatized and losses are socialized).")


• Alan Wolfe, The lying game, Salon.com, 18 September 2008.
  ("Like George W. Bush, McCain and Palin have to lie. Because if they told the truth about their policies, they'd lose the election.")


• Steve Fraser, Wall Street and Washington: How the Rules of the Game Have Changed, TomDispatch.com, 18 September 2008.


• William Pfaff, Reality Catches Up to the Free Market, TruthDig.com, 18 September 2008.


• * Froma Harrop, McCain and the Meltdown, RealClearPolitics.com, 18 September 2008.


• Nouriel Roubini, We need a new HOLC - more than a new RTC or RFC - to provide massive debt relief to the household sector. We need to create the HOME (Home Owners’ Mortgage Enterprise), RGE Monitor, 19 September 2008.


• * John W. Dean, Vice President Dick Cheney's Incredible and Deadly Lie: By Deceiving a Congressional Leader, Cheney Sent Us to War on False Pretenses And Violated the Separation of Powers - as Well as the Criminal Law, FindLaw.com, 19 September 2008.


• Robert Fisk, Why Does the US Think It Can Win in Afghanistan?, CommonDreams.org (via The Independent), 20 September 2008.


• * Hale "Bonddad" Stewart, The Death of Republican Philosophy, The Huffington Post, 21 September 2008.


• * Jared Bernstein, Watching History Unfold, The Huffington Post, 21 September 2008.
  ("You hear that implosion reverberating through financial markets? It's the sound of decades of conservative ideology collapsing.")


• Bruce Fein, Impeachable offenses?, The Washington Times, 23 September 2008.
  (In my view, Bruce Fein is one of the few remaining "conservatives" worthy of respect, an honest constitutionalist. I thought his appearance on Bill Moyers Journal last year excellent: Tough Talk on Impeachment, 13 July 2007. Fein's most recently published book is Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan, September 2008: publisher, Amazon.com.)


• * Naomi Wolf, Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?, AlterNet.org, 23 September 2008.


• * Chris Floyd, Coming Attractions: War Without End, Amen, Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd Online, 23 September 2008.


• * Glenn Greenwald, Correction on Sarah Palin, Salon.com, 25 September 2008.


• Andrew J. Bacevich, The Petraeus Doctrine, The Atlantic, October 2008.
  (Note: Bacevich's most recently published book is The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Metropolitan Books, August 2008: publisher, Amazon.com. Bill Moyers Interviews Andrew J. Bacevich, 15 August 2008. 9/11 Plus Seven, The American Empire Project, 09 September 2008.)