Some recent Essays I found insightful:

• Subrata Ghoshroy, Chomsky: "The Majority of the World Supports Iran", AlterNet.org, 03 October 2008.
  
  Subrata Ghoshroy, Chomsky: "If the U.S. Carries Out Terrorism, It Did Not Happen", AlterNet.org, 04 October 2008.


• * Chris Floyd, The Wounded Shark: 'Good War' Lost, But the Imperial Project Goes On, Empire Burlesque, 05 October 2008.


• Al Jazeera, The End of American Capitalism? 5 Short Takes on Where the Financial Crisis Might Be Headed, AlterNet.org, 07 October 2008.
  (The five economists interviewed are: James Galbraith, Gerald Friedman, Mark Weisbrot, John Berlau, and James S. Henry.)


• Glenn Greenwald, Sarah Palin's museum of trite right-wing tactics: 1980-2008, Salon.com, 07 October 2008.


• Suzanne Goldenberg, McCain is heading for defeat, says Republican analyst, The Guardian, 08 October 2008.


• * Peter S. Goodman, The Reckoning: Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy, The New York Times, 08 October 2008.
  
  The Reckoning: "Articles in this series are exploring the causes of the financial crisis." The New York Times.


• Nancy A. Youssef, Financial crisis could put crimp in defense spending plans, McClatchy Newspapers, 08 October 2008.


• * Glenn Greenwald, Major shock: Eavesdropping powers abused without oversight, Salon.com, 09 October 2008.


• Juan Cole, Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes, Informed Comment, 09 October 2008.


• Mary Shaw, Maryland State Police put nonviolent activists on terror lists, The Smirking Chimp, 09 October 2008.


• Michael Collins, Election 2008: The Difficulty Stealing It This Time; New 2008 Democratic Primary Voters Are The Key to Election Protection, The Smirking Chimp, 09 October 2008.


• Christopher Hitchens, America the Banana Republic, Vanity Fair website, 09 October 2008.


• * Noam Chomsky, Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed, CommonDreams.org, 10 October 2008.
  ("Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky")


• Justin Raimondo, The American Empire, RIP; The 'declinists' were right, AntiWar.com, 10 October 2008.


• Juan Cole, McCain: Obama Decent, no Arab, Informed Comment, 11 October 2008.


• Nicholas Graham, Economic Honor Roll, The Huffington Post, 12 October 2008.
  (Names some of those who foresaw the U.S.'s emerging economic difficulties, with dated quotes and video; includes Nouriel Roubini, Warren Buffett, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Byron Dorgan, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman.)


• PAUL KRUGMAN, Gordon Does Good, The New York Times<, 12 October 2008.
  MARK LANDLER and ERIC DASH, Drama Behind a $250 Billion Banking Deal, The New York Times, 14 October 2008.
  LANDON THOMAS JR, British Prime Minister’s Stock Rises as His Bank Plan Lifts Stocks Worldwide, The New York Times, 14 October 2008.
  STEPHEN CASTLE, British Leader Wants Overhaul of Financial System, The New York Times, 15 October 2008.


• M K Bhadrakumar, Energy superpower emerges in the Caspian, Asia Times, 17 October 2008.
  ("The immense scale of Turkmenistan's gas reserves, revealed after an independent audit, elevates the country to the top rank of gas producers. More, it renders Moscow's energy strategy obsolescent and rekindles United States and European hopes of loosening Russia's grip on Central Asian gas pipelines. Former invader China has its own trump cards to play.")


• Aziz Huq, How to manage an imperial decline, Asia Times, 18 October 2008.
  ("As shown with the British empire in the post-World War II years, there is inherent danger when a great power in economic crisis disastrously miscalculates what it can actually do in the world. Now, just as Britain had its Suez crisis, the United States has Iran.")


• Howard Wolfson, The End of Nixonland, The Flack blog at The New Republic, 18 October 2008.


• Seth Colter Walls & Nico Pitney, Colin Powell Endorses Obama, The Huffington Post, 19 October 2008.