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Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets The Developing World For Future Profits

by Michael T. Klare In the 1980s, encountering regulatory restrictions and public resistance to smoking in the United States, the giant tobacco companies came up […]

Tanzania’s Fraudulent Natural Gas Contract With Statoil, BG Group And ExxonMobil. Officials Arrested

by Pratap Chatterjee Two senior Tanzanian officials were arrested after they failed to produce details of multi-billion dollar natural gas extraction agreements signed with Statoil of […]

The Constant Evolution Of E-Wallets

Over the last few years online technology has improved in staggering leaps and bounds. In the last 10 years alone it’s become an era of […]

The Almighty Dollar Is In Peril As The Global ‘De-Dollarization’ Trend Accelerates

by Michael Snyder As the Obama administration continues to alienate almost everyone else around the entire planet, an increasing number of prominent international voices are […]

World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World

by Michael Snyder Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more […]

eBay, PayPal, Apple And Dish Approve Of Bitcoin. Is Google Next?

by Justin O’Connell Bitcoin has proven itself as an established payments system, with some of the world’s most influential people commenting on its utility and […]

Putin Flushes The US Dollar: Russia’s Gold Ruble Payments System Delinked From Dollar?

by Umberto Pascali Russia “forced” by the sanctions to create a currency system which is independent from the US dollar. Russia announces that it […]

How To Fix the World Documentary (movie)

From the authors: We have built an incredible platform and community of people who are working around the clock to bring us free energy devices, […]

The Gods Of Money & Their New World Order Project: Endgame Has Begun

by Richard K. Moore, New Dawn Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws. – Mayer Amschel […]

FBI Is Global Stakeholder In Cryptocurrency, Currently Owns Largest Bitcoin Wallet

Photo from casascius.com When the FBI shut down the Silk Road, an internet black market, in October it also seized the accused owner’s assets and […]

The Debt Matrix: Consumption and Modern-Day Slavery

by Timothy Alexander Guzman “Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt” Henrik Ibsen According to Oxford […]

Wall Street and the Hegelian Dialectic

Andrew Dilks, Contributor These days, describing the big banks as criminal syndicates extorting billions from the public is hardly sticking one’s head above the parapet: the […]

US debt six times greater than declared – study

The United States has accumulated over $70 trillion in unreported debt, an amount nearly six times the declared figure, according to a new study by […]

Top 1% Own 39% Of All Global Wealth: Hoarding Soars As We Hurtle Toward Economic Oblivion

by Michael Snyder According to a study that was just released by Boston Consulting Group, the wealthiest one percent now own 39 percent of all the wealth in […]

Want to Save the World? Build a Local Economy!

by Martin Murphy, Contributor I was pondering the question: ‘If there was a panacea for the challenges we all face, what would it be?’ My research […]

Iran plans oil exports to North Korea

Tehran and Pyongyang are in talks about possible exports of Iranian oil to North Korea, Iran’s oil ministry said on Saturday. “We have had, and […]

The Bitcoin Revolution

by Alex Robertson Satoshi Nakamoto is a pioneer, a mystery, and a potential saviour. Having created what many would consider to be one of the most […]

Monsanto Protection Act Proves Corporations More Powerful Than US Government

by Anthony Gucciardi We’ve seen similar scenarios in the past, events in which the massive financial power of multi-national corporations is able to buy out legislators […]

Why the U.S. Should Legalize Industrial Hemp

The U.S. government, in all its wisdom, treats hemp and marijuana in the same manner. Despite one offering no psychoactive effects (hemp) and the other offering psychoactive effects (marijuana), both are against the law.

Berlusconi sentenced to 1 year behind bars in wiretap trial

Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to one year in jail after a wiretap trial linked to a 2005 banking scandal.

GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism

Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. In the 1960s and 70s, in the face of increasing competition from abroad, the US began to outsource manufacturing production to bring down costs by using cheap foreign labour. Other countries followed suit. Even more jobs were lost through the impulse to automate. To provide a further edge, trade unions and welfare were attacked in order to suppress wages at home. Problem solved. Or was it?

Bill Gates Dodges Questions on Why He Owns 500,000 Shares of Monsanto

Bill Gates is primarily known as the multi-billionaire who Microsoft, the company behind the most popular computer operating system known as Windows. With this massive wealth, he has retired from leading Microsoft and now instead focuses his money and time on furthering genetically modified technology, geoengineering, experimental vaccinations, and preaching about how Monsanto is the answer to world hunger.