Link: http://www.truth-out.org/slouching-toward-a-double-dip-or-a-lousy-recovery-best61109

The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession and all the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing. The odds of a double dip are increasing.

Link: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20008

When the UN refused to agree to the severe sanctions that the U.S. wanted, Obama responded with typical Bush flair and went solo. The new U.S. sanctions against Iran — signed into law by Obama on July 1st — are an unmistakable act of war.

Link: http://uruknet.com/?p=m67582&hd=&size=1&l=e

Under Barack Obama, the former professor of constitutional law, Americans’ civil liberties have shrunken drastically – to the point that his administration claims the right to execute its citizens without charge or due process of any recognizable kind. And citizens that leave the country cannot be sure they will be allowed back in. But where is the outrage among Democrats, when Obama out-Bushes Bush? "It seems that Democrats did not in fact feel any affront to Bush policies, only to his party affiliation."

Link: http://news.oneindia.in/2010/07/03/26pcof-americans-dont-know-what-country-us-fought-to-gain.html

In a new Marist College poll, a shocking 26 percent failed to identify Great Britain as the country the US colonies fought to gain its independence, according to CNN.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/jobs-j03.shtml

The Labor Department’s employment report for June confirms that the United States is in the grips of a protracted economic slump with no recovery in sight.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/oils-j03.shtml

For 75 days now, crude oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Estimates of the amount of oil that has spilled out range as high as 150,000,000 to 200,000,000 gallons.