• Game Over for Planet Earth: The Month’s Biggest Story You Never Read
  

While you were paying attention to Herman Cain, the Kardashians and the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, the U.S. Department of Energy administered last rites to the planet.

• Nick Clegg To Accuse Banks Of Racism

Nick Clegg is set to accuse British banks of racism in a speech sure to anger many in the City.

The deputy prime minister is expected to say that banks have been discriminating against ethnic minorities when granting loans and setting interest rates.

• UK Retail: Arcadia Suffers 40% Slide In Profit, May Close 260 Stores

As we predicted, Philip Green put 1 bn pounds of debt onto Arcadia’s balance sheet – as the result of paying himself a 1 bn. pound ‘dividend’ (paid to his wife in Monaco to avoid tax) – destabilizing the company and making it incapable of dealing with any economic downturn. Flash forward to today. The company looks like it’ll go bankrupt, but Green already took his 1 bn. pounds out – so while the shareholders and employees get crushed – Green’s looking cool – due to his illegal and pathetic market rigging and gaming of the system.

• Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes

• Ireland demands debt relief, warns on EU treaties

Murphy Report: an investigation conducted by government of Ireland into the Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin.

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• Bond Vigilantes Make Their Votes Known in Europe

• Goldman’s Sigma X Hints Who The Next Contagion Target Is