Thanks to reselling and repackaging of mortgage loans, the answer may be "Yes."

The Bush administration's Stephen Bradbury, the head of the Justice Department's Office of
Legal Counsel, testified on torture. Bradbury made claims that what the US does is not what was done in the past. Europe has several Torture Museums in cities such as Brussels, Florence, London, Prague, and San Gimigniano. Karen Greenberg takes us on a tour of the one in the Czech Republic.

Bamboo is no longer just a delicacy for pandas or a collectible for sinophiles.
The environmental movement is embracing bamboo — it's actually a type of gigantic grass with hollow, jointed, woody stems — as a raw material source for organic clothing.

A number of manufacturers and retailers — Sprout Kids Clothing, New Balance, Sameunderneath and Lela Designs, among others — are offering underwear, T-shirts and other clothing made primarily of bamboo, targeting green-conscious consumers and advertising the products as all natural.

Established clothing purveyors such as JC Penney and H&M are also joining the movement, touting their eco-friendly offerings.

"He hasn't said the word black out of his mouth, not even to talk about the color of his suit or his shoes! He cannot address the suffering of African people."

Check out this first in an ongoing series of vignettes by African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela on the U.S. presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.

"When you talk about a presidential election where they're going to spend more than a billion dollars, a lot of forces with a whole bunch of money are promoting him for their own reasons. Not because of what's important to Africans, but because of what's important to this element of the ruling class.

"So he's important, because at this time of crisis, where you might be looking for revolution, where you might be willing to talk about overturning the system, he brings Africans back into the safe embrace of the Democratic Party."

"Since economic thinking shapes the world, we can't leave economists alone to putter with their theories. Too many of them hung up their thinking caps the moment they got their degree, and stopped looking out the window."

The survival of the planet and the stability of the dollar seem more likely with Michael Bloomberg as president. The major candidates see "more boots on the ground" as a panacea. The melting of the dollar and military overreach have brought the US to the abyss. Take power from the Bush crime family!

The military adventurers of the George W Bush administration have much in common withthe corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. The Bush administration puts off these costs for future generations to pay or repudiate.

Zachariah Hallback, 18, was recently robbed and murdered at a bus stop. Hallback was fought for justice with Baltimore's Algebra Project. Jay Gillen, public school teacher and a mentor of Algebra Project students, reflects on the deaths of youth in Baltimore.