A disturbing photograph

Someone's famine and another's feast:

Photograph taken in Africa

Obvious but endearing

Found at Common Dreams

Obamaland

The consumer’s republic*

* The title of a book by Lizabeth Cohen.

A new silent majority?

Joblessness, homelessness, hopelessness

What’s right with this picture?

The original along with a brief comment can be found here.

Racists against healthcare reform

The coming civil turmoil....

Because protests and riots have already appeared across the world, events that undoubtedly were responses to the economic crisis and its social effects, José Miguel Alonso Trabanco wrote the following about the United States:

For decades, overall political stability in the US was taken for granted. However, as it has been pointed out, even senior American statesmen are taking into consideration that financial volatility could fuel a wave of discontent which could easily reach troubling proportions. It seems that America itself is not immune from "regime-threatening instability" as the Pentagon and the American intelligence community terms it. It is likely that American government officials have not dismissed the worst-case scenario. Indeed it looks like they have been preparing accordingly.

Therefore, as has been scrutinized here, once one proceeds to connect the dots a very dark picture begins to emerge, to say the least. An all-encompassing cloud of uncertainty prevents us from formulating an accurate forecast regarding what developments will occur and how they will unfold during the next few months, let alone years. The only thing that can be taken for granted and that one can be sure of is that the unthinkable has now become thinkable.

But why, when all things are considered, would Trabanco believe rioting unthinkable when well-informed Americans can easily recall events like these:

Santelli’s losers

Homeless children in America

A way of life soon to be lost

A new kind of "mall rat" inherits America's really existing utopia....

What does Israel’s terrorist state wish to crush?

Presenting Soup Kitchen America

About which see Richard Rhames sobering article.

Coal is the way to go….

King coal claims to have cleaned up its act. Now it's "good clean coal."

Yet:

Poverty and the economic crisis

Images of food and housing insecurity in the United States

The rustbelt

What has voodoo economics wrought?

From Hooverville to Bush Bayou

Oh, those pewter memories!