By Theodore Butler | SilverSeek.com | Sep. 29, 2008
It’s hard to imagine now, but there were times when I worried about having anything fresh to write about silver. Lately it has been choosing from many different topics. This week, the choice was easy. Amid the continuing swirl of major financial crises, one issue rose to the top.

By Bob Willis | Bloomberg | Sep. 30, 2008
House prices in 20 U.S. cities declined in July at the fastest pace on record, signaling the worst housing recession in a generation had yet to trough even before this month's credit crisis.

RIA Novosti | Sep. 30, 2008
Russia is planning to increase its spending on defense by 50% in the next three years, a senior MP said Tuesday.

By Gareth Porter | AntiWar.com | Sep. 30, 2008
New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the first weeks after 9/11.

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In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what's behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for many years to come.

By David Perlman | San Francisco Chronicle | Sep. 30, 2008
Scientists studying the coded signals from the lander Phoenix on the planet's arctic surface detected the snow falling lightly from clouds drifting across the sky some 2 1/2 miles above the spacecraft, said James Whiteway, an atmospheric scientist from York University in Canada.

By Nick Juliano | RawStory.com | Sep. 29, 2008
Any customs agent who wants to go poking around your laptop's hard drive is going to need a legitimate reason to do so, if legislation proposed Monday is adopted.

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Chuck Norris explains his one wish: to rid the United States of corrupt congressmen with Ron Paul's help. How, you ask? Why in one of the most Chuck Norris-ways possible of course . . . watch and find out. This video was shot on September 28, 2008 at Kent State University.

By Pamela Manson | The Associated Press | Sep. 26, 2008
A judge has reaffirmed an order that a Utah attorney can conduct taped depositions of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and a federal death-row inmate.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Sep. 28, 2008
A significant number of small attacks left at least 51 Iraqis dead and another 138 wounded. The violence was spread out fairly evenly across northern and central Iraq. Tensions continue in Kurdish Diyala where the mayor of Saadiya escaped an assassination attempt. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, hundreds of Christians protested a new elections law because it does not guarantee them seats on provincial councils.

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Congressman Ron Paul gives us his thoughts on the failure of the bailout bill just minutes after leaving the floor.

By David Gutierrez | NaturalNews.com | Sep. 29, 2008
The National Marine Fishery Service has ordered a ban on all salmon fishing along the west coast of the lower 48 United States due to an unprecedented collapse of wild salmon stocks.

By Scott Lanman & Craig Torres | Bloomberg.com | Sep. 29, 2008
The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.

By Jeffrey A. Miron | CNN.com | Sep. 29, 2008
Congress has balked at the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Under this plan, the Treasury would have bought the "troubled assets" of financial institutions in an attempt to avoid economic meltdown.

By Mike Whitney | CounterPunch.org | Sep. 29, 2008
Today the US House rejected Treasury Secretary Paulson's $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Paulson said he has the votes, but Paulson was wrong. The House bucked the Paulson's claim that buying up the illiquid mortgage-backed assets from the nation's banks would be enough to save the financial system from an impending meltdown.