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 have had enough.

Here i…

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 Mac in a long-shot bet th…

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 Administración de Bush padre…

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 about? Well no, at least not according to those who have aggre…

These companies all supported Monsanto’s anti GMO labeling act efforts.
 
 

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By Simon McCormack

Someone in Vatican City had better get to confession.

Torrent Freak has unearthed the download history from an IP address in the Pope’s place of re…

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 the previous year, data showed …

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 waterways. A laser cannon, its magazine limited only by t…

[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 ask me to use Google Circles or Google analy…

[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 the President’s proposal for private…

By Bernie Becker

President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in IRAs and other retirement accounts

The proposal …

[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 many years on this blog and on The Sola…

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 known as the “Comprehen…

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The Mom and Pop Predicament

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 economy will completely implode.

The 10 billion e…

By Tax Justice Network

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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 of client: ordinary…

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By Ken Tysiac

U.S. public companies can use social media to make company announcements as long as they inform investors of the channels they will use to di…

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 and its opponents. The provisi…

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 and why.

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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 Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). Individuals mus…

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 with an implicit or explicit state guaran…

[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 are now going to transfer control of the infrastructure …

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. As a result, civil liberties and privacy groups led by …

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 Republicans and Democrats. The Jump Start Our Busine…

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

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By Darker Net

Glenn Greenwald…”Brown – who has been imprisoned since September on a 17-count indictment that could result in many years in prison – is a serious journalist who has spent the…

By Weill Cornell Medical College

Humans don’t “own” their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are and what diseases they might be at risk for. Through more than 40,000 patents on …

By The Economist

In 1999 Trudy Dai used to spend all night sending e-mails from her friend Jack Ma’s apartment, trying to answer queries from American customers without letting on that she was …

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By Mike Cohen & Ilya Arkhipov

The biggest emerging markets are uniting to tackle under-development and currency volatility with plans to set up institutions that encroa…

By Jeffery Sparshott

The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to “virtual currencies,” amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit activitie…

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By This American Life

The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties aroun…

By William Alden

The lack of women on corporate boards has been a hot topic in financial circles recently, especially after a debate in Europe last year over imposing quotas.

Now, Wall Street is off…

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By Annika Breidthardt and Robin Emmott and Michele Kambas

The euro zone agreed on Saturday to hand Cyprus a bailout worth 10 billion euros ($13 billion), but …

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