Let’s spread the word: Wetiko By Paul Levy In the first part of this series, we contemplated the idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the

By Sam Smith One of the greatest myths draped over this land is that the so-called wing nuts mainly come from the far right and

By Ronnie Cummins The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.”

By Joe Weisenthal Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases its full report on the crisis. [click on the image for a larger version] Continue

By Catherine Austin Fitts An authorized someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts

By Teri Buhl Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage

By Casey Chan The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must

From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into

By Gretchen Morgenson Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies

Genetically-modified crops could help prevent a future global hunger crisis, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said. By The Telegraph Professor Sir John Beddington said there

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By Lyndsey Layton In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about

“I AM” – Official Trailer In theaters: February 8th, 2011 Synopsis: I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it,

By Adam Ostrow Here’s a bit of a surprise to end the week: Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, ended tonight’s show by announcing he’s

By Sam Smith National Journal – President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,

By Janna Irons Last year, 20-year-old Kyle Thiermann took a surf trip to Southern Chile, where he planned to spend a few weeks sampling the

By Dr. Mercola Commonwealth Club 11-18-10. Panel II – Martin Blank, PhD. Continue reading the article . . .

By Sam Smith Several years after the passage of the Federal Boating Act of 1958, the Second Coast Guard District in St. Louis sent a

By Daily Mail Reporter The sun over Greenland has risen two days early, baffling scientists and sparking fears that Arctic icecaps are melting faster than

Monsanto garnered 38% of the vote to win the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame. From using aggressive legal tactics to intimidate and bankrupt local farmers

The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. In contrast, a work of art bears within itself its

By Gregory White Since quantitative easing 2 really kicked off in early September, one major commodity has lagged the broader market. Surprise, it’s gold. And

I am convinced more than ever that over a long-period, the real safety and growth of our capital lies in honest entrepreneurship – not in

By Shadowstats Here we show year-to-year growth as a measure of the changing money supply. Note: A downward slope in this growth curve does not

From tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere to satellite companies propelling products into the ether, the galactic gold rush is on. And now

By Gregory White While the presumption may be that southern members of the eurozone are lazy, the evidence suggests otherwise, according to Societe Generale. This

By Michael J. Green Q1: What is the significance of this summit? A1: On January 19, Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao will hold their

By Paul Ferguson The following chart shows some long-term trends in the gold mining industry.  The grade of gold discoveries is declining while the cost

History has shown that giant countries on the way down are very dangerous because they are desperate. But this year the U.S. has stabilized and

Timed for tax season, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a pilot today to offer taxpayers a safe, convenient and low-cost financial account for

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Are we headed toward another Great Depression? Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts gives Financial Survival Radio a brutally honest answer to

By Catherine Austin Fitts Solari.com investment adviser Catherine Austin Fitts tells Financial Survival Radio why the “Crash JP Morgan” (which she recommends and supports) by

Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts says America has a bad case of the tapeworms: A tapeworm media and a tapeworm economy. A tapeworm, she explains, is a

By John Pilger My favorite secret document – leaked by WikiLeaks, of course – is from the Ministry of Defense in London. It describes journalists

WikiLeaks brings truth to the world by publishing fact-based stories without fear or favour. Our organisation exists because of the work of many volunteers who

Where would we be without seeds? Between a rock and hungry place, that’s where!  Despite their importance, seeds don’t get the attention or respect they

The yuan is, in the Chinese language, the base unit of a number of modern Chinese currencies. The distinction between yuan and renminbi is analogous

The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Julie Haviv State-owned Bank of China Ltd has opened trading in the yuan currency to U.S. customers, according to a posting

By Paul Menchaca After suffering often staggering losses since the financial crisis shook global markets in 2008, US endowments have been forced to reassess their

By Brad DeLong My suspicion is that this is simply coincidence and proves once again the dangers of drawing conclusions in the field of human

For many people, smart phones are almost as indispensable as wallets. And soon, your smart phone could replace your wallet. A collection of the biggest

(24 September 2010) After six years of intense negotiations, parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety finally agreed on a new international treaty in Nagoya,

Car was in a Capitol Hill garage. DC, Capitol police on the scene. Deceased identified as Ashley Turton, wife of White House liaison to the

By Thom Weidlich US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. lost a foreclosure case in Massachusetts’s highest court that will guide lower courts in that

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Welcome to Facebook Members Want Stock In Facebook This Group is dedicated to having Facebook members receive a share of the revenue that the site

By Paul Levy Note: I consider this series of articles one of the most important things I’ve ever written. If after reading it you feel

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that

Voter Concern About Economy Hits Highest Level In Over Two Years With a new Congress scheduled to swing into action this week, the number of

There will soon be seven billion people on the planet. Continue reading the article . . .

By Joseph A. Giannone The efforts by Facebook to raise as much as $1.5 billion outside of regulated markets is the latest test of the

By Alex MacDonald and Liam Pleven A prominent indicator of international food prices hit a record high in December, sounding a warning about looming threats