Mercola.com | Though many U.S. economists now say a recession is upon us, or soon will be, Ron Paul predicted current economic problems years ago.

Daily Times | If U.S. forces in Afghanistan continue to suffer casualties inflicted by insurgents crossing over from Pakistan, the next administration will come under tremendous public pressure to make direct strikes on Pakistani targets.

CNN Money | Washington hath no fury like Middle America scorned – and there’s reason to think it will only get uglier.

Ezra Klein | The scoundrels may go belly up, but the “weakest” who get “purged” are not the lions of Wall Street.

IPS | 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.

Steve Watson | Former Governor to reveal details of new project on the Alex Jones show this week.

YouTube | Call your congress critter and say NO to a bailout: 1-800-828-0498 1-800-459-1887.

Alternet | The CEO of a weapons manufacturer has plenty of chances to rub elbows with deputy secretaries of defense, officials from Homeland Security, retired military personnel, and the best and brightest of the defense establishment almost any week of the year.

McClatchy Newspapers | Many in Africa see the U.S.’s new Africom as an unwelcome expansion of the U.S.-led war on terrorism and a bid to secure greater access to the continent’s vast oil resources.

AFP | European leaders led the calls for action by President George W. Bush who called close advisors into emergency talks after the defeat and was to make a statement on Tuesday.

AP | Congress has shelved a $10.9 billion bill to provide health care for ground zero workers, partly due to opposition from New York Mayor Bloomberg.

Reuters | Like many U.S. cities, Atlanta is car dependent and residents say they had until now taken refueling for granted.

Nouriel Roubini | It is obvious that the current financial crisis is becoming more severe in spite of the Treasury rescue plan.

James Corbett | While the public is distracted by the “bailout bill” and its rejection, trillions are pumped in to keep financial balloon inflated.

Mail Online | China offers both rulers and the ruled in Africa the simple, squalid advantages of shameless exploitation.

National Post | Marx’s Proposal Number Five seems to be the leading motivation for those backing the Wall Street bailout.

Guardian | People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns.

Associated Press | Ventura will travel the country, investigating cases and getting input from believers and skeptics before passing judgment on a conspiracy theory’s validity.

YouTube | McKinney cites a source that wants to remain anonymous.

CNN | The fact that government bears such a huge responsibility for the current mess means any response should eliminate the conditions that created this situation in the first place, not attempt to fix bad government with more government.

Telegraph | Corporate America has just lost a chunk of its value the size of the Indian economy.

Politico | Bush warned on national television that the country will experience “painful and lasting” economic damage if Congress does not pass a bailout measure.

Reuters | Bank rescues spread in Europe on Tuesday after U.S. lawmakers’ unexpected rejection of a $700 billion bailout.

Kurt Nimmo | Back in 2004, they dragged out Osama and ascribed blame. Now as the banker engineered destruction of America is approaching terminal velocity, they may blame the dead nemesis again.

Nick Juliano | 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.

CNBC | The U.S. Congress’s rejection of a bank rescue package tore nearly 9 percent off the broad S&P 500 on Monday.

Paul Joseph Watson | Spoonamore says electronic voting machines represent national security threat, Israel, China and Russia have capability to rig presidential outcome.

Times of India | Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari secretly met the director of America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Michael Hayden on his recent US visit.

NY Times | The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that a state representative is “studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.”

YouTube | There was dead silence on the floor as the vote went thumbs down in the House.

AFP | Britain’s overseas security service, MI6, has turned to social networking website Facebook to help recruit new agents, it emerged Sunday.

Raw Story | The House failed to pass a $700 billion economic bailout package Monday, sending lawmakers back to the drawing table to try to stave off an economic collapse, and the stock market plummeted on the news.

CNN | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he was interested in working with Russia to develop a civilian nuclear power program.

London Guardian | The idea that the presidential debates are “high-risk TV” in which the candidates can be questioned “on any subject matter” is laughable. The debates are profoundly undemocratic.

Press TV | China has called for an end to the ‘use of force’ against Tehran in a move that will further complicate the push for new anti-Iran sanctions.

Steve Watson | With major European banks now failing, calls have increased for an entire restructuring of the financial system under a centralized EU supervisory body.

WeAreChange.org | Brian Kenny and Matt Lepacek from We Are Change confront Douglas Feith on war crimes.

Market Watch | House lawmakers voted 205 to 228 Monday against approving the historic $700 billion financial rescue plan.

Infowars | We have finally decided the second and third places winners of the First Wave Internet Censorship video contest and the Second Wave winners.

Vancouver Sun | Vancouver police are defending a decision by officers to Taser a 16-year-old mother who wouldn’t hand her baby over to social workers last Monday.

YouTube | Speaking on the House floor, Ron Paul said the Wall Street meltdown is the result of corporatism, not free markets.

Infowars | MSNBC host Joe Scarborough broke a We Are Change camera phone after losing patience with questions directed towards he and co-host Mika Brzezinski about 9/11 truth.

Associated Press | The British government is nationalizing troubled mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, the Treasury confirmed Monday, taking over the bank’s 50 billion pound ($91 billion) mortgage and loan books.

Australian IT | State and federal police forces want full-frontal images of vehicles, including the driver and front passenger, that are clear enough for identification purposes and usable as evidence in court.

Financial Times | European central banks have cut their sales of gold to the lowest level in almost a decade, reversing the practice of recent years when hefty sales helped depress prices.

Paul Joseph Watson | Rep. Kaptur: Normal legislative process has been shut down, high financial crimes committed, Republican Michael Burgess says “martial law” has been announced.

New York Times | Paulson can choose to buy from any financial institution that does business in the United States, or from pension funds, with wide discretion over what he will buy and how much he will pay.

Associated Press | In the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has begun drumming up business, positioning his law firm to advise corporate clients on how to profit from the government’s $700 billion bailout.

Bloomberg | European stocks tumbled to the lowest since January 2005 after bank bailouts accelerated and the $700 billion plan to rescue American financial institutions failed to unlock money markets.

Robert Baer | Are we going to have an October surprise, an attack on Iran by either the Bush administration or by Israel to stop the regime from becoming a nuclear power?