By Liz Farmer In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension

By John Rubino Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet

By Jim Farber Richie Havens, a seminal member of the New York folk scene of the ’60s, died Monday morning from a sudden heart attack.

[CAF Note: Geez – why allow our taxes to pay for the police state, when consumers can fund directly?] Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter Google Glass

By Grant Williams I am a seller of gold. Just not yet — and certainly not anywhere close to this price. One day, long into

By Catherine Austin Fitts I stopped in Moscow, Idaho this weekend on my way to Portland Oregon. Moscow is the home of the University of

[CAF Note: Ever notice how bad things happen to people who stand up to Monsanto?] By Alexandra Berzon As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer

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Photo Credit:AP By James Nye, Louise Boyle, Simon Tomlinson and Jill Reilly Scores of heavily-armed police swarmed a Boston suburb today as the net tightened

Painting By Patricia Coslor She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Stephens College in Columbia, MO and also studied at Parson’s School of

By Elizabeth Landau In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets. Scientists announced Thursday the discovery

Photo Credit:Getty Images by Declan McCullagh The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial data-sharing bill that would authorize e-mail and Internet providers

By James Gallagher A kidney “grown” in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say. Similar techniques

By James Gallagher The case relates to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009, and centres on whether companies should be

Photo Credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg By Glenys Sim, Phoebe Sedgman & Debarati Roy Gold plunged the most in 33 years amid record-high trading as an unexpected

By Jordan Graham, John Zaremba Two huge explosions rocked the Boston Marathon finish line at Copley Square just before 3 p.m. today, apparently causing numerous

By KristenM The first time I ever tasted a real tomato, I was in Cusco, Peru. I had picked them up at a Farmer’s Market,

Photo Credit:AFP/Getty Images By Heather Stewart and Helena Smith Cypriot politicians have reacted with fury to news that the crisis-hit country will be forced to

On my last trip to California I kept running into a group of people promoting specific solutions to the problems that face us, including government

A State of Amusement

by Valerie Strauss Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they

By Katherine Burton, Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn Investors including hedge funds are buying the preferred stock of government-controlled mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie

By ActualidadRT Fraude colateral. ¿Cómo funciona? ¿Quién está por detrás? En este caso Daniel Estulin habla con Catherine Austin Fitts, ex alta funcionaria de la

By Larry Bell Do those of us who are determined to defend our constitutional rights to own and bear arms really have anything to worry

These companies all supported Monsanto’s anti GMO labeling act efforts.     Aunt Jemima Aurora Foods Banquet Best Foods Betty Crocker Bisquick Cadbury Campbells Capri

Photo Credit: Enrique Cornejo By Simon McCormack Someone in Vatican City had better get to confession. Torrent Freak has unearthed the download history from an

By: Kylie MacLellan Crowdfunding websites helped companies and individuals worldwide raise $2.7 billion from members of the public in 2012, an 81 percent increase on

By Spencer Ackerman The video above is what the Navy’s top officers view as the future of their dominance on the surface of the world’s

[CAF Note: Notice the double standard in the treatment of an artists or author copyright and Monsanto’s seed patents? Ain’t no accident! And please don’t

[Note from CAF: The Economist is laying the philosophic basis for eminent domain actions on scale. Given the recent leads about the TransPacific negotiations and

By Bernie Becker President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in

[CAF Note: In the following editorial from Forbes, Steve Forbes describes the dangers of various forms of confiscation. While we have covered these issues for

By Alex Newmann After almost four years of negotiations, the Canadian government and the European Union are reportedly close to finalizing a controversial integration deal

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By Henry Blodget Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and

By Tax Justice Network MAIN REPORT 1 – The Price of Offshore Revisited Press Release Key Issues Main Report MAIN REPORT 2 – Inequality: You

By Margaret Collins & Devin Banerjee Private-equity firms, the exclusive money managers overseeing $3 trillion worldwide for the wealthiest investors, are discovering a new type

Photo Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg By Ken Tysiac U.S. public companies can use social media to make company announcements as long as they inform investors

By Natasha Lennard Slipped into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill, which passed through Congress last week, was a small provision that’s a big deal for Monsanto

By Eric Toensmeier To save the planet we may need to turn it into an edible paradise… help me write the book that explains how

By IRS The new Form 8938 filing requirement does not replace or otherwise affect a taxpayer’s obligation to file Form TD F 90-22.1 (Report of

By Yves Smith One of the big lessons of the fraught negotiations over bailing out (or more accurately, in) Cyprus’s banks is that deregulating institutions

[CAF Note: Now that we have turned over $27 trillion in bailouts to private investors and $4 trillion is “missing” from the US government, we

By Glenn Greenwald The use of drones by domestic US law enforcement agencies is growing rapidly, both in terms of numbers and types of usage.

By The Economist On April 5th 2012 the pitched political battles in Washington, DC, briefly paused as Barack Obama signed a law endorsed by both

Painting by Claude Monet “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” ~Martin Luther