Apparently it's not considered newsworthy beyond the local press, but a whole block of the Morningside Estate in Hackney Wick/Homerton, i.e. prime Olympic boom territory, has been without electricity for SIX days and counting.  The supplier (French state-controlled London Olympic bid sponsor EDF Energy) blames a water leak (Thames Water: acquired for £8 billion by Macquarie Bank of Sydney, 2006).  You couldn't ask for a better display of how financialized infrastructure works: resource rundown by two fragments of the former utility system converges neatly to make life impossible for guess which class demographic (sitting on guess which real estate...)

Further detailed coverage from Libcom (http://libcom.org) of the  class struggle that continues to rage in Bangladesh, focusing here on how the global 'food crisis' works concretely in this case. The effect of farming techniques imposed during Asia's 'Green Revolution' is addressed, although this needs to be put related to the world trade 'diplomacy' which since WW2 has made 'developing' countries dependent on food imports (see M. Hudson, Super Imperialism), and to the present commodity price bubble inflated by investment attempting to hedge its way out of exposure to perilous financial 'products'.

Detailed summary by Michael Hudson (author of the essential Super Imperialism, new edition: Pluto Press, 2003) of US government moves over the last few weeks to rescue Wall Street's fictitious wealth claims by turning upside-down the New Deal-era agencies designed to keep small producer-debtors from going under.  Treasury Secretary Paulson will pay whatever it costs to fund "creditors to lend debtors enough money for them to pay the interest costs so as to keep current on their loans", even if it means bankrupting Medicare and Social Security.  In this respect Paulson may be closer than the neo-Georgeist Hudson to the minority-marxist intuition that 'capital's executive committee' has to bail the gamblers out because financial looting is by now the only possible basis for accumulation.  But Hudson's ongoing account of this kind of policy as the 'socialization of risk' is vindicated today more obviously than ever.  The other side of this, of course, is that when, government withdraws from 'the market', leaving a policy vacuum for the FIRE sector to fill, as Hudson describes, state action to condition and coerce labour tends to go into overdrive.  As Elizabeth Povinelli observes in the current issue of Mute (http://www.metamute.org/en/Doing-it-for-the-Kids), in practice this often means mortal risk-taking becomes compulsory for the asset-poor, at the same time as the biggest  gambling debts are being 'forgiven'.
From Counterpunch (www.counterpunch.org)

From Private Eye, the otherwise barely-reported story of the recent Treasury paper underlying the UK government's renewed commitment to more! bigger! better! PFI, which draws on the 'analysis' of PFI fee-farmers PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG etc.

Financial Times 'Insight' column (April 2, 'Companies & Markets' section) which may be too quick to dismiss the role of the free-falling dollar in dollar-denominated oil prices, but makes an interesting case for the necessity of the current 'speculative' $100+ a barrel rate based on total stocks, once producer countries' excess capacity levels are considered in relation to their own domestic energy needs.  The author unwittingly comes close a 'Midnight Notes'-type argument: the Opec states are forced to provide for electricity demand from growing and increasingly urbanized (read: proletarianized) populations, to the point of actually having to import oil to run power plants.  Consequently 'excess' (i.e. world market-ready) capacity is falling, pushing market prices up, even as inventories and capacity increase in absolute terms.  
    Also casually dropped in is the interesting claim that some of the Opec countries' oil revenue has 'found its way into' funds speculating in oil futures, thus pushing prices up further.  Chavez-loving leftists should pray that this abstract perpetual-motion machine has a long time left to run.