By Max Ehrenfreund President Obama unveiled Thursday a major executive action on immigration policy, offering temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, along with

“Now all of political economy from prehistory on to 1932 has been intent upon one thing only—how to take the wealth from the producer, how

By Catherine Austin Fitts The S&P is up 11% year to date. Alibaba is up 18% from it’s IPO in September. Lockheed Martin, the prime

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed… A few people cried… Most people were silent. I remembered the line

by Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist The stories became far too frequent to ignore. Emails from folks with allergic or digestive issues to wheat in the United States

“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in

“As much as these currency moves may contribute to global rebalancing on paper, I would just caution from a market perspective not to underestimate …

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By Ralph Ellis Imagination became reality Wednesday when a mechanical space traveler called the Philae probe plunked down on its target, a comet with a

By Don Reisinger and Roger Cheng President Obama urged the US government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve “a

By Morningstar One of the world’s biggest stock markets, Shanghai, will open up to foreign investors next week with the start of a highly anticipated

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By Ken Auletta In the spring of 2000, Reed Hastings, the C.E.O. of Netflix, hired a private plane and flew from San Jose to Dallas

“In vast laboratories in the Ministry of Peace, and in experimental stations, teams of experts are indefatigably at work searching for new and deadlier gases;

“Simpler Products for a Simpler Life.” ~Lehman’s Motto By Catherine Austin Fitts The holidays are approaching so it is not surprising that this morning’s mail

By RT A town in northern Portugal has made Chinese obligatory for 8- and 9-year old school children, in order to boost the kids’ abilities

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Last night found me sitting in the driveway with the car full of groceries. I could not unpack because I was

By Alex McIntyre, Edward Adams, Jeremy Scott Diamond and Blacki Migliozzi With a week to go before Election Day, here are the issues people are

By DeepResource Pepe Escobar, Brasilian born and roving correspondent for RT and other outlets, is not a fan of the US global empire, to put

“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love

By Rhonda Mapp Friday, October 10, 2014, I took my final stroll through Harry’s Farmer’s Market in Roswell, Georgia, USA. It was a bittersweet goodbye.

By Catherine Austin Fitts “You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” ~CIA operative We

“You’ve got to be in it to win it.” ~ Old Saying By Catherine Austin Fitts One way to learn about investing is to just

By Emma Finamore and Kunal Dutta Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has described artificial intelligence as a “demon” and the “biggest existential threat there is”,

By Catherine Austin Fitts I have been listening to commentators criticize the decision by regulators and financial institutions to loosen the terms and conditions in

By Peter Farquhar The Vatican Library was founded in 1451 by Nicholas V. It holds some 180,000 manuscripts, 1.6 million books and 150,000 images and

“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.” ~ Babe Ruth By Catherine Austin Fitts It does not

By Nick Hanauer You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded,

[CAF Note: Should some of us now be prepared to revisit the 1990’s in Washington – such as having our Sunday brunches interrupted by undercover agents taking

By Robert Parry Jeff Leen, the Washington Post’s assistant managing editor for investigations, begins his renewed attack on the late Gary Webb’s Contra-cocaine reporting with

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By Wikileaks Today, Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is

By John Hutchinson China and Russia are considering building a high-speed rail line thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Beijing that would cut the journey

“There is too little economic risk-taking, and too much financial risk-taking.” ~ Christine Lagarde By Catherine Austin Fitts The financial news is full of fear

“Guard your heart, for out of it flows the wellspring of life.” ~ Proverbs 4:23 By Catherine Austin Fitts According to the latest Gallup poll

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By Robert Parry The mainstream news media’s reaction to the new movie, “Kill the Messenger,” has been tepid, perhaps not surprising given that the MSM

By Dave Smith We are hugely dependent on our internet speeds for everything — on a desktop or mobile device, for business or pleasure, we

By Michelle Conlin Many thousands of Americans who lost their homes in the housing bust, but have since begun to rebuild their finances, are suddenly

“So why do 62 percent of parents think it’s [common core] a bad idea? For one, they can count. But their kids can’t.” ~ Joy

By Yves Smith Yves here. It really is remarkable to see the degree to which the Administration tries to, and succeeds in, convincing the public