July 29, 2011 journal, America buys1 billion dollars of merchandize per day from China. Not only are all the jobs exported overseas but banks, governments and school teachers are being laid off like never before in our history. Now they are demolishing foreclosed housing. America has lost its mind, gone crazy from one end of the country to the other. The evil banks are showing their true color and it is blood red with disregard for humans. 66 percent of the American people are reported to say that the debt debate is ridiculous. We're watching the disintegration of America, we should prepare to live without money. Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "As in Norway, most of our domestic acts of terrorism have been committed by homegrown Americans, not members of an extremist Islamic group. Gary LaFree, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, echoes a warning from our own Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has repeatedly insisted, 'that Right-wing Conservative extremists would be among the groups most likely to commit an act of mass violence in the United States.'" Read the Article Richard D. Wolff | A Tale of Two Lootings Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "The political posturing around the debt ceiling 'crisis' was mostly a distraction from the hard issues. The hardest of those - underlying US economic decline - keeps resurfacing to display costs, pains and injustices that threaten to dissolve society. Its causes - two long-term trends over the last 30 years - help also to explain the political failures that now compound the social costs of economic decline." Who Gains From Debt Deal? The Pentagon, for One Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "The last-minute deal that Congress is considering to raise the federal debt limit probably will mean trillions of dollars in government spending reductions for most agencies. But one department stands to gain: the Pentagon. Rather than cutting $400 billion in defense spending through 2023, as President Barack Obama had proposed in April, the current debt proposal trims $350 billion through 2024, effectively giving the Pentagon $50 billion more than it had been expecting over the next decade." Thom Hartmann, ThomHartmann.com: "Could it be that many reporters - and virtually all of the television talking heads - are themselves relatively high income-earners who don't relish the idea of higher taxes? Or could it be that reporters are afraid that if they report the actual language of the S.& P. Research Report, then Republicans will punish them by denying them 'access' - i.e. refusing to show up on their programs - which is the career and show kiss-of-death for radio and TV programs that rely on big-name politicians to work?" Saturday 06 August 2011 31 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan Helicopter Shootdown-Hashim Shukoor and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "Thirty-one U.S. troops, including more than 20 Navy SEALs, and seven Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter was shot down during an overnight operation against Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, according to statement issued Saturday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.... It was the worst single-day toll for American forces in Afghanistan since U.S. troops entered that country nearly 10 years ago, and one of the largest tolls in a single incident of either the Afghan war or the fighting in Iraq." "Meanwhile, in the southern Helmand province, an Afghan government official said Saturday that NATO troops attacked a house and inadvertently killed eight members of a family, including women and children".