Essays, etc.:

• Linda Scott & Roberto Villalpando, Time lapse of drought conditions in Texas, Austin American-Statesman, updated weekly.


• Edouard Husson, Dollar Hegemony and the Economics of Unilateralism: France and Germany have just missed another opportunity to challenge the dollar standard, AntiWar.com, 10 April 2009.
  
  Michael Hudson, Financing the Empire, CounterPunch.org, 30 March 2009.


• Philip Sherwell, Barack Obama uses Bush funding tactics to finance wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Telegraph.co.uk, 10 April 2009.


• Justin Raimondo, The Suicide of the West: Who killed our economy -- "foreigners," or Washington, Wall Street, and the War Party?, AntiWar.com, 10 April 2009.


• Eric Alterman, The Impressive Hypocrisy of the GOP, The Daily Beast, 09 April 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ, Salon.com, 06 April 2009.


• Paul Krugman, Tea Parties Forever, nytimes.com, 12 April 2009.
  
  Rachel Weiner, Krugman: "Republicans Have Become Embarrassing To Watch", The Huffington Post, 13 April 2009.


• Frank Rich, Awake and Sing!, The New York Times, 11 April 2009.


• Keith Bradsher, China Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds, The New York Times, 12 April 2009.


• Matt Taibbi, The peasant mentality lives on in America, The Smirking Chimp, 14 April 2009.


• Terri Gross, Fighting America's 'Financial Oligarchy', Fresh Air, PBS, 15 April 2009.
  Interview of Simon Johnson of The Baseline Scenario and author of The Quiet Coup, The Atlantic, May 2009.
  
  Martin Wolf, Is America the new Russia?, FT.com, 14 April 2009.
  
  See also:
  
  Dmitry Orlov. Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers, June 2008.
  (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com)


• Glenn Greenwald, The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition, Salon.com, 14 April 2009.


• Barry Ritholtz, How to Puff Up Earnings, Goldman Sachs Style, The Big Picture, 14 April 2009.
  
  Barry Ritholtz, Fmr Secy O’Neil: TARP Goal Deceive Public, The Big Picture, 15 April 2009.


• Michael Lind, America is not a Christian nation, Salon.com, 14 April 2009.
  "Religious conservatives argue the Founding Fathers intended the United States to be a Judeo-Christian country. But President Obama is right when he says it isn't."


• Glenn Greenwald, The differing views of the "rule of law" in Spain and the U.S., Salon.com, 14 April 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, The significance of Obama's decision to release the torture memos, Salon.com, 17 April 2009.
  
  Chris Floyd, Tortured Logic: Obama Writes Off Old Crimes While Promoting New Outrages, Empire Burlesque, 16 April 2009.
  
  Michael Hayden & Michael B. Mukasey, The President Ties His Own Hands on Terror, WSJ.com, 17 April 2009.
  Bushies attempt to defend the indefensible.
  
  Scott Shane, Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects, The New York Times, 19 April 2009.
  
  Marcus Baram, Pundits Whitewash Torture, The Huffington Post, 19 April 2009.
  
  Scott Shane & Mark Mazzetti, In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Look at Past Use, The New York Times, 21 April 2009.
  Note: "Harsh Tactics" is the NYT euphemism for Torture.
  
  Senator Carl Levin, New Report: Bush Officials Tried to Shift Blame for Detainee Abuse to Low-Ranking Soldiers, The Huffington Post, 21 April 2009.
  
  Paul Krugman, Grand unified scandal, Paul Krugman Blog, 22 April 2009.


• Drew Westen, The Five Strands of Conservatism: Why the GOP is Unraveling, The Huffington Post, 16 April 2009.


• Martin Feldstein, Inflation is looming on America’s horizon, FT.com, 19 April 2009.


• Nathan Gardels, The Coming Demise of the Dollar Reflects the Rise of the Rest, The Huffington Post, 21 April 2009.
  An interview with Joseph Stiglitz.


• Nelson D. Schwartz, Spain’s Falling Prices Fuel Deflation Fears in Europe, The New York Times, 20 April 2009.


• Paul Krugman, China’s Dollar Trap, The New York Times, 02 April 2009.


• Mark Engler, Neocon Fantasies of Empire Crushed: the New Global Reality, AlterNet.org, 21 April 2009.
  Originally published as Empire Foreclosed?, Foreign Policy in Focus, 17 April 2009.


• Hale "Bonddad" Stewart, If This Is An Improving Economy, We're In Trouble, The Huffington Post, 19 April 2009.
  Antidote to deceptive happy-talk from various government officials.


• naked capitalism : I often find the essays and links at this blog most instructive.


• Link to notable recent IMF reports.