Essays, etc.:

• Edward Harrison, How big banks earned so much money this quarter, naked capitalism, 22 April 2009.


• David Fiderer, IMF Numbers Show a Great Economic Hole That Will Frame Partisan Debate, The Huffington Post, 22 April 2009.


• Matt McGrath, World's major rivers 'drying up', BBC News, 22 April 2009.
  
  Clare Davidson, Why water, oil and coal do mix, BBC News, 09 February 2009.
  Explains how water is necessary for electric power generation. Has links to many other articles on water resources; see particularly: Mapping future water stress.
  
  Andrea Ball, Despite recent rain, drought persists: Normal rainfall in 2009 still not enough to fix dry soil, low lakes, stressed plants., Austin American - Statesman, 25 April 2009.


• Mark Schneider, Guatemala: the next to fall?, GlobalPost, 16 April 2009.
  Another instance where poverty plus low social investment (schools, health care, etc) plus drug prohibition results in violence and corruption.


• Glenn Greenwald, Meet the Press and the media's distortions of the prosecutions debate, Salon.com, 20 April 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV, Salon.com, 21 April 2009.
  [Television networks employ and prominantly feature Pentagon propagandists.]
  
  Glenn Greenwald, Jane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist, Salon.com, 21 April 2009.
  
  * Glenn Greenwald, Three key rules of media behavior shape their discussions of "the 'torture' debate", Salon.com, 23 April 2009.


• * James Kwak, The Missed Opportunity, The Baseline Scenario, 22 April 2009.
  The comments here are quite good.
  
  via: Andrew Leonard, Why do the banks think they can push Detroit around?, How the World Works, Salon.com, 22 April 2009.


• James V. DeLong, The Coming of the Fourth American Republic, The American (an AEI publication), 21 April 2009.


• Lewis testified that U.S. urged silence on Merrill deal, Reuters, 23 April 2009.


• Eamonn Fingleton, How the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Buried the Madoff Scandal for at Least Four Years, CounterPunch.org, 23 April 2009.
  
  Meanwhile, Fortune magazine says "The case began with his flabbergasting confession, which set off the investigation."
  James Bandler & Nicholas Varchaver, How Bernie did it, Fortune, 24 April 2009.
  
  Harry Markopolos, Wikipedia.


• Allison Kilkenny, Noonology, The Smirking Chimp, 24 April 2009.
  
  On torture apologist Peggy Noonan ("Some things in life need to be mysterious") and similar thinkers. Russ Feingold speaks for many. A recent Noonan column (24 Apr 2009).
  
  Paul Krugman, Reclaiming America’s Soul, The New York Times, 24 April 2009.


• The Hearing - An Economic Policy Discussion Moderated by Simon Johnson and James Kwak (of The Baseline Scenario), The Washington Post, initiated April 2009.


• Jeremy Scahill, Are Leading Democrats Afraid of a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture?: Congress was Briefed in Real Time on Bush-Era Torture Tactics. Is That Why They Prefer Whitewash Commissions and Closed Door Hearings?, CounterPunch.org, 24 April 2009.


• Frank Rich, The Banality of Bush White House Evil, The New York Times, 26 April 2009.


• Tom Jacobs, Conservatives Live in a Different Moral Universe -- And Here's Why It Matters, AlterNet.org, 25 April 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, Democratic complicity and what "politicizing justice" really means, Salon.com, 24 April 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, David Broder and media culpability for Bush crimes, Salon.com, 26 April 2009.
  
  * Glenn Greenwald, Top Senate Democrat: bankers "own" the U.S. Congress, Salon.com, 30 April 2009.


• Andrew J. Bacevich, Farewell, the American Century: Rewriting the Past by Adding In What's Been Left Out (Tom Englehart, Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Whose Century Was That?), TomDispatch, TomDispatch.com, 28 April 2009.
  
  This essay also appears at Salon.com with video of Bacevich.


• Daniel B. Wood, The Crisis Hasn't Hit Everywhere: 10 States Weathering the Economic Storm, AlterNet.org, 27 April 2009.
  
  The states are: Alaska, Wyoming, Louisiana, Nebraska, Texas, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah, Oklahoma, South Dakota.
  Not on the East or West coasts; lesser participation in housing boom; natural resources a large fraction of economy; diversified economy [the last two are not necessarially mutually exclusive, though historically in undeveloped states/nations the initial exploitation of natural resources is associated with a lack of economic diversification].


• Karen J. Greenberg, Kiss the Era of Human Rights Goodbye: What Bush Willed to Obama and the World, (Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Human Rights in the Dust), TomDispatch, TomDispatch.com, 30 April 2009.
  
  Mark Danner, The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means, The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 7, 30 April 2009.


• Cenk Uygur, Condi Rice Pulls A Nixon: When the President Does It, That Means It is Not Illegal, The Huffington Post, 30 April 2009.
  Also posted at DailyKos.
  Includes video.