By Catherine Austin Fitts

In 1987, I rented a magical apartment in a brownstone on Manhattan’s West Side next to Central Park. Full of fireplaces, wood paneling and tall ceilings, my picture window…

By Sarah Mervosh

Thousands are expected to attend next week’s memorial service for Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, who died Saturday when a veteran he was trying to help allegedly turned a gun on hi…

By Barbara Pruitt

The newest installment of the Kauffman Sketchbook video series tells the great American success story of an immigrant entrepreneur who starts with very little yet achieves great t…

By Max Raskin & Jasmine Zhao

The number of foreigners who have purchased green cards by investing in the U.S. has exploded in the last decade.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows approved applications for …

By Charles Mead and Matt Robinson

Fifteen months after Harold “Terry” McGraw III sparked a $4.6 billion stock gain at McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) with a plan to focus the business on its Standard & …

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By Vincent Ryan

Like the entrepreneurs on Kickstarter trying to raise money to sell hot-chocolate cubes, cut an album, or manufacture a wireless dive-log device for scuba divers, later-stage private …

By Damien Gayle

UK spy agencies want to install ‘black box’ surveillance devices across the country’s communications networks to monitor internet use, it emerged today.

A report by an influential …

By Eric Engleman

International proposals to control the Internet will continue after a United Nations conference in Dubai and the U.S. should be ready to fight such efforts, lawmakers and a regulator…

[CAF Note: Bill Cosby used to have a comedy routine about medics. Referring to a military landing, he quipped that their life expectancy from the time they hit the water to the time they almost got t…

By Margaret Collins

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is giving its wealthiest clients the chance to invest in the single-family rental market after other investments linked to the U.S. housing recovery j…

By David E Sanger

A secret legal review on the use of America’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United …

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The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. govern…

By Jeff Eisenhauer

Harbin is one of the most genuinely unique places in China. Though it’s known for its annual ice festival, the city has many other marvels like a huge tiger park and a train that…

By Ovetta Wiggins

A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesso…

By CBS News

The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, alleging that it fraudulently gave high ratings to mortgage debt that later plunged in va…

by Jon Rappoport

By liberals, I simply mean those people who accept big government as a given, regardless of their political affiliation.

And yes, at certain key levels, they are a club. They come f…

By Melanie Pelayo

On Jan. 1, 2013, Congress averted the so-called fiscal cliff by approving new legislation titled the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA-2012). President Obama signed the bi…

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By Mike Adams

Under Obamacare, American families are forced to buy conventional health insurance that primarily benefits the pharmaceutical industry. By 2016 — just three years from now — the che…

By RT

A functioning prototype of revolutionary airship is undergoing tests south of Los Angeles. A US company is developing a series of gigantic heavy-payload dirigibles with an innovative ballast …

By Adam Mann

One of the largest storms ever seen on Saturn may have been a victim of its own success, choking when it ate its own tail.

The “Great Springtime Storm” was a colossal maelstrom th…

By Kate Brumback

A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police s…

By RT

Switzerland will now assist international tax authorities in disclosing information on bank accounts held by foreigners who avoid taxation at home.

Joint efforts by the EU, the US and number…

By Joshua Zumbrun & Jeff Kearns

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he isn’t close to easing up on $85 billion in monthly bond purchases to spur a stalled economy and bring down 7.8 p…

By Ethan Bronner

Law school applications are headed for a 30-year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upo…

By Bloomberg Rankings and Nikhil Hutheesing

Bernie Rooney, owner of Oak Barrel Winecraft in Berkeley, Calif., says you can make a bottle of wine for about $5 or less once you have the equipment. Th…

Report: Three People Shot At Phoenix Office Complex

A shooting has been reported at an office complex in Phoenix, Ariz., according to ABC 15.

Three people were shot and another two were hurt, acco…

[Note from CAF: While I admire Congressman Giffords, what she is saying flies in the face of overwhelming documentation of the facts. Gun ownership saves many more lives than those lost from acciden…

[Note from CAF: From a subscriber today – someone who is very, very smart]

“Just watched him do an interview on Today. The guy is a complete nut job. He was talking about some of the most dangerous …

By Leslie Patton

Abercrombie & Fitch sells sex. Harley-Davidson (HOG) sells rebellion. Chipotle sells idealism.

The burrito chain has long pushed sustainable food in its 1,400 restaurants. Now Chi…

Awarded Solari Best Film of the Year, 2012, Genetic Roulette has an opportunity to receive the AwareGuide Top Transformational Film, 2012! IRT is offering a free screening of GRM so you can watch and …

By Pete Brook

In the past 40 years, the number of people living in the city of Detroit has halved. This has lead many to write it off — in many ways, wrongly — as a decrepit ghost town. Unbroke…

“I took part in victimising innocent, good people. It was institutionalised bullying and scapegoating, and I couldn’t see it because everything about the regime was good for me and I felt I was par…

By BBC

Google has puts its first detailed maps online of North Korea, a country that has so far been mostly blank on the search giant’s popular Maps website.

The data was compiled on Google’s Map …

By Jef Feeley

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (WMT) Mexican unit used a current state governor there to facilitate $156,000 in bribes meant to help open stores, an ex-lawyer for the retailer told company …

For the better part of a decade, I have been a cast member of CBC’s Dragon’s Den and ABC’s Shark Tank. Today, both of these television shows enjoy tremendous popularity in North America, but i…

Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.

And the situation is even wors…

Art Liscano knows he’s an endangered species in the job market: He’s a meter reader in Fresno, Calif. For 26 years, he’s driven from house to house, checking how much electricity Pacific Gas & Electri…

Since 2009 all cash buyers have purchased roughly one third of all Southern California home sales. This is a significant number and unlike the early 2000s, many of these buyers are looking to hold o…

Scientists believe they have shown exposure to certain chemicals in the womb can cause changes that are passed through generations.

There is no firm evidence of this in humans, but Washington State…

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What just a few months ago was dismissed as a pipe dream or wishful thinking has today become a reality that will no doubt take the gun ownership debate, not just nationally but worldwide, to a wh…

Catherine Austin Fitts, Author, Publisher, Investment Advisor

Wednesday, January 23, 6pm EST: Mitchell’s guest today is Catherine Austin Fitts, the publisher of the Solari Report.
Listen to the s…

By Sabrina Siddiqui

Progressive senators working to dramatically alter Senate rules were defeated on Thursday, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and his counterpart, Minority Leader M…

By Christian Stork

The suicide last Friday of information activist, computer hacker and technical wunderkind Aaron Swartz has focused attention on Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts…

By John O’Donnell and Robin Emmott

Germany, France and nine other euro zone countries will get the go-ahead on Tuesday to start work on a financial transactions tax, a measure likely to unsettle bank…

Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?

Computer-Generated Music, is it Art?

By Chuck Gibson

As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words

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By Greg Palast

Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chains.

But not because Piers doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. (I mean, really, who…

[Note from CAF: As currency wars intensify, expect more attention paid to clearance and settlement systems, particularly SWIFT.]

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT…

By Peter Melchett

Powerful forces in Western society have been promoting genetic engineering (now usually genetic modification – GM) in agricultural crops since the mid-1990s. They have included many…

By Jesse Emspak

Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, Congress has already approved the use of drones for domestic surveillance. Then there’s the …

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We’ve posted recently about the swelling pollution crisis in China, this map can show you the scope of the problem.

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By The Economist

WATCH Chinese television these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku and China the Diaoyu islands is only a matter of time….

We have just posted an updated version of the transcript for the 2012 Annual Wrap Up. You can find it in the Transcript Announcement. Also find it in the blog post; at the Subscriber Resource Page, …

[Staff Note: I’m a big fan of America’s budding Microbrew industry. It’s based around small, local companies who strive to provide the best product they can. Many of them, like New Belgium, go above…

Well….now it’s Poland. This nation has joined the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that are displaying some rationality and caution with respect to Duponzanto and Mon(ster)santo …

By Dina ElBoghdady

The ads may start coming in the next few months through e-mail, on billboards, even via a passing reference on Facebook — companies looking to give you a chance to invest on th…