Author: Mark Gilmore

By Catherine Austin Fitts

They have a name for men who round up innocent children and send them to prisons where they make uniforms for the military at great expense to the taxpayer. I am not going t…

by Cedit Suisse

The debate on what would happen if Scotland or Catalonia became independent opens up some very interesting arguments. On one side we have politicians and corporations advocating the…

Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in …

By Robert O’Harrow Jr., Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property withou…

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By Mike Whitney

January 15, 2015 “ICH” – “Counterpunch” – Is America in the throes of a class war?

Look at the chart and decide for yourself. It’s all…

The 2015 State of the Union Address will be given by the 44th President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Jo…

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By Simon Kennedy

The road to normal is proving to be bumpy.

Stunning monetary-policy shifts in Switzerland and India sent markets on wild rides, highlighting…

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by Elena Holodny

On Wednesday Russia’s announced that it will shift all its natural gas flows to Europe via Turkey, instead of Ukraine, reports Bloomberg N…

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by Jim Clifton

The U.S. now ranks not first, not second, not third, but 12th among developed nations in terms of business startup activity. Countries such …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

There is nothing more impressive than grace under fire.

Over the last two years, Bill Gross, former head of PIMCO, has had one o…

by Rick Falkvinge

Activists from the Pirate Party’s youth wing have wiretapped high-level political surveillance hawks at Sweden’s top security conference. They set up an open wi-fi access poin…

According to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2015 cybercrime continues to rise rapidly in the ranking of disruptive scenarios. In Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States cyber risks are now am…

By Sustainable Pulse

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the Russian Federation Code of Administrative Offences into law, including a new article establishing liability for the violation of…

Privacy is the new celebrity … Nico Sell shields her eyes from photography to avoid the risk of identity theft. Photograph: fastcompany.com

The founder of secure messaging app Wickr on privacy, wh…

by Joseph P. Farrell

his is an issue that appears not to be going away, and it’s worth rehearsing what the concern is. When Dr. DeHart and I wrote Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas,…

By Wikipedia

The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization’s level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to utilize. The scale has three d…

The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is multilateral development bank operated by the BRICS,states (Brazil Russia, India, China and South Africa) as a…

Russia’s Rossiya and SMP banks, which fell under Western sanctions, are among the eight lenders that will start testing the country’s new national payment system on December 15.

“The pilot pro…

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November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in C…

Allied Arts Center, Menlo Park, California, November 8th & 9th, 2014

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Thirty-five subscribers came from all across the United States as well as from Europe, Australia …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Melissa Millan, Executive Vice President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co (“MassMutual,”) was stabbed to death on November 20th. This raised more than a few e…