BY RICHARD C. COOK Global Research, July 16, 2008 Posted by Bulatlat ALTERNATIVE READER Vol. VIII, No. 24, July 20-26, 2008 With the economic news of the week of July 14—the continuing crisis among mortgage lenders, the onset of bank failures, the announced downsizing of General Motors, the slide of the Dow-Jones below 11,000—we are…