AmpedStatus Report: The economic elite have escalated their attack on the U.S. public by surging military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate.

AmpedStatus founder and editor David DeGraw was recently interviewed on the Peter B. Collins show. They discuss the economic coup and the devastating consequences for the US public, Obama’s failure to deliver on campaign promises, and what we can do to fight for economic justice.

The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world’s biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20 billion to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing international efforts to ban them.

The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Goldman Sachs, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such a magnitude entails is left out of the mainstream media, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.

Protesters’ signs carried Obama-specific barbs: “Change? What Change?” “The Audacity of War Crimes.” “Yes We Can: U.S. Out of Afghanistan.” Several of the demonstrators had T-shirts showing a missile labeled “Obomba” and the question “Is it really OK if Obama does it?”

10. Have top U.S. military officers, Defense Department officials, and politicians say we’re in a religious war.

Here are two clips from the Daily Show exposing the unwinnable war and voter fraud in Afghanistan.

As poverty continues to rise throughout the world, global military spending is exploding to its highest level ever.

If we really were in Bush’s third term, people would be far more active and outraged. There would already be a major push to really end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan.

These next several weeks and months are critical in redirecting our country away from Common Destruction and towards the Common Good. Decisions will be made which could send hopes for health care, education, living wage jobs, a new environmental policy crashing upon the shoals of never ending war.

In sworn statements, two ex-employees claim Blackwater’s owner, Erik Prince, murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company.

While the focus is on Dick Cheney’s role, the U.S. has long had a bi-partisan assassination program. And Obama is expanding on it.

In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?

The headlines are declaring “US Leaves Iraq,” and Iraqis are celebrating an Orwellian “National Sovereignty Day.” THE WAR IS OVER… Don’t believe the hype! Here’s a roundup of what’s really happening on the ground in Iraq.

As a School of the Americas military leader takes control of Honduras in a coup, many are questioning the US role in yet another foreign election dispute. Here’s a roundup of critical views.

The US is looking to withdraw from Iraq in name only, as it appears up to 50,000 military personnel will remain after the June 30 deadline.

Two Taliban leaders turn on Mehsud and accuse him of being “an American agent.” One quickly gets assassinated, while US forces suspiciously still can’t kill the elusive Pakistan Taliban leader.

Iraqi Oil Minister accused of mother of all sell-outs. To public fury, the country is handing over control of its fields to foreign companies.

McChrystal is a hired gun, an assassin, a man known for committing war crime atrocities as head of the infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) - a de facto death squad described as an “executive assassination wing” that operated out of Dick Cheney’s office.