Economics

UN Wants to Stabilize Global Economy With One World Currency
21 May 2012

by Susanne Posel The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is proposing that the current system of world currencies and capital rules that govern the world’s economy need to be altered in order to [...]

Monsanto Buys Whole Foods: Fact or Rumor?
21 May 2012

by Mike Barrett Since early 2011, there has been a lot of information circulating regarding Monsanto’s purported purchasing of the natural health food store known as Whole Foods; topics like ‘Monsanto buys whole foods‘ and [...]

Google’s New Search Tool to Use CIA and World Bank as Sources for ‘Facts’
20 May 2012

by Eric Blair Google is making a big change to how it displays results in its dominant search engine.  It is rolling out a new feature called the Knowledge Graph which breaks from the traditional practice of [...]

Facebook faces US $15 billion lawsuit
19 May 2012

Tracking users after they log out and violating US wiretapping laws – these are the allegations behind a 15-billion-dollar nationwide class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook in California. The suit, combining 21 cases of alleged [...]

How The U.S. Dollar Will Be Replaced
18 May 2012

by Brandon Smith, Contributor After being immersed in the world of alternative economic analysis for several years, it sometimes becomes easy to forget that most people do not track forex markets, or debt to GDP ratio, [...]

Dimon Suggests Billions Lost in Derivatives Fraud is Standard Banking Practices
16 May 2012

by Susanne Posel Jamie Dimon, Chairman of JPMorgan Chase is hoping that the American public will be sympathetic toward the recent $2 billion in losses that the financial firm has incurred because of their investments [...]

Windows 8 operating system will ban Firefox and Chrome
15 May 2012

A new version of the Windows 8 operating system could shut out browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, according to Mozilla. Microsoft has been saying all along that x86 apps wouldn’t run on Windows on ARM [...]

Make the Bankers Pay: Iceland, Ireland pushing back against neo-feudalism
13 May 2012

by Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Editor’s Note: For more information, please read “Farmers group wants Ireland to follow Iceland and burn the bondholders.” Across the dominion of the corporate-financiers on Wall Street and in the city of [...]

Is the U.S. Government Deliberately Suppressing Fuel Efficiency?
12 May 2012

Most people would logically believe that the U.S. government works for the citizens of America – after all, that is why we continue to pay taxes, right? The perceived good intentions of the American [...]

Corporations Descend on Africa to Securitize Natural Resources for Profit
10 May 2012

by Susanne Posel, Contributor Corporations are infiltrating Africa to profit from the land. An $11 million dollar project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Coca-Cola Corporation are employing 50,000 Kenyan and Ugandan [...]