Link: http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/43424/uncovered-torture-chamber-proves-cia-went-nuts

Where does the CIA find these people? The ranks of a heavily armed backwoods militia? The KKK? INVESTIGATIVE journalists have finally unearthed something in Bucharest they have long suspected to be there - a secret CIA prison in the basement of a government building. The news was broken jointly by the Associated Press and German public television, ARD Panorama, yersterday.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/09-3

Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us - bombshell new research shows - for their continuing awesome good tidings.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/09/land-of-free-home-of-hungry

Nowhere is the chasm between America's political class and its working poor more vast than in the demand to cut food stamps. Republican lawmakers want to cut the Department of Agriculture's budget for food stamps by 20%.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8947470/Eurozone-banking-system-on-the-edge-of-collapse.html

The eurozone banking system is on the edge of collapse as major lenders begin to run out of the assets they need to keep vital funding lines open. The European Central Bank admitted it had held meetings about providing emergency funding to the region's struggling banks, however City figures said a "collateral crunch" was looming. Senior analysts and traders warned of impending bank failures as a summit intended to solve the European crisis failed to deliver a solution that eased concerns over bank funding.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29935.htm

I’m writing this on December 5, 2011. The global economic debt crisis is getting worse. Later this week the European Union is scheduled to meet to find some solution to the sovereign debt crisis of several of its members.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29928.htm

Last month during the GOP presidential candidate foreign policy debate, Newt Gingrich suggested that he would order a military attack on Iran over its nuclear program.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/09/rape-us-military

A female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Kate Weber says she tried to report a rape but was told to be quiet and not tell anyone. "It was eight years before I was able to say the word that describes what happened to me," says Maricella Guzman. "I hadn't even been in the Navy a month. I was so young. I tried to report it. But instead of being taken seriously, I was forced to do push-ups."