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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that …

Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under i…

President’s Speech Offers Hope for Some Relief; Exceptions for Rental Income Reporting Remain Vague

For small businesses that were dreading the thought of having to produce a Form 1099 for every pa…

Here’s your list of 60+ of the recent animal die-offs.  I didn’t include the honeybees, earthworms, or most insect life, as they’re a subject all by themselves.  I also skipped most frog die-offs. …

The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance document for engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed.

The guidance document, prepared…

Let’s spread the word: Wetiko

By Paul Levy

In the first part of this series, we contemplated the idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that has been wreaking havoc throughout human history …

By Sam Smith

One of the greatest myths draped over this land is that the so-called wing nuts mainly come from the far right and left. And that there is, however, a wise and moderate establishment t…

By Ronnie Cummins

The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” –  Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011

In the wake of a 12-…

By Joe Weisenthal

Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases its full report on the crisis.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

An authorized someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts and photo tags. Finally some m…

By Teri Buhl

Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook

Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Gold…

By Casey Chan

The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must mean something!

I think the West Coast is safe. The South, um, prett…

From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire”

Benedicto:

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May yo…

By Gretchen Morgenson

Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives…

Genetically-modified crops could help prevent a future global hunger crisis, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said.

By The Telegraph

Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no one ”s…

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By Lyndsey Layton

In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to s…

“I AM” – Official Trailer

In theaters: February 8th, 2011

Synopsis:

I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents T…

By Adam Ostrow

Here’s a bit of a surprise to end the week: Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, ended tonight’s show by announcing he’s leaving, effective immediately.

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By Sam Smith

National Journal – President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, the White House announced. . .

Immelt, GE’…

By Janna Irons

Last year, 20-year-old Kyle Thiermann took a surf trip to Southern Chile, where he planned to spend a few weeks sampling the pointbreak perfection of Constitucion. But soon he realiz…

By Dr. Mercola

[arve url=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/17266941″ width=”300″ height=”200″ frameborder=”0″>Commonwealth Club 11-18-10. Panel II – Martin Blank, PhD.

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By Sam Smith

Several years after the passage of the Federal Boating Act of 1958, the Second Coast Guard District in St. Louis sent a team of unarmed men, and a van with outboard patrol boat in tow, t…

By Daily Mail Reporter

The sun over Greenland has risen two days early, baffling scientists and sparking fears that Arctic icecaps are melting faster than previously thought.

Experts say the sun s…

Monsanto garnered 38% of the vote to win the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame. From using aggressive legal tactics to intimidate and bankrupt local farmers to its reckless promotion of genetically modif…

The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the ho…

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. In contrast, a work of art bears within itself its own confirmation: concepts which are manufactured out of who…

By Gregory White

Since quantitative easing 2 really kicked off in early September, one major commodity has lagged the broader market.

Surprise, it’s gold.

And now, with all the talk of inflation st…

I am convinced more than ever that over a long-period, the real safety and growth of our capital lies in honest entrepreneurship – not in gold, silver, or government bonds.

~ Tony Deden, Sage Capit…

By Shadowstats

Here we show year-to-year growth as a measure of the changing money supply.

Note: A downward slope in this growth curve does not necessarily mean that the money supply is dropping. O…

From tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere to satellite companies propelling products into the ether, the galactic gold rush is on. And now private firms are making millions from Nasa, says Je…

By Gregory White

While the presumption may be that southern members of the eurozone are lazy, the evidence suggests otherwise, according to Societe Generale.

This chart shows the gaps in labor utili…

By Michael J. Green

Q1: What is the significance of this summit?

A1: On January 19, Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao will hold their eighth bilateral meeting, but only their second state visi…

By Paul Ferguson

The following chart shows some long-term trends in the gold mining industry.  The grade of gold discoveries is declining while the cost of discovering gold is increasing:

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History has shown that giant countries on the way down are very dangerous because they are desperate. But this year the U.S. has stabilized and is going to grow modestly.

One more thing: Janet Yell…

Timed for tax season, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a pilot today to offer taxpayers a safe, convenient and low-cost financial account for the electronic delivery of their federal tax…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Are we headed toward another Great Depression? Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts gives Financial Survival Radio a brutally honest answer to that question.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Solari.com investment adviser Catherine Austin Fitts tells Financial Survival Radio why the “Crash JP Morgan” (which she recommends and supports) by purchasing physical silv…

Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts says America has a bad case of the tapeworms: A tapeworm media and a tapeworm economy.

A tapeworm, she explains, is a parasite that attaches itself to th…

By John Pilger

My favorite secret document – leaked by WikiLeaks, of course – is from the Ministry of Defense in London. It describes journalists who serve the public without fear or favor as “subv…

WikiLeaks brings truth to the world by publishing fact-based stories without fear or favour.

Our organisation exists because of the work of many volunteers who have contributed thousands of hours t…

Where would we be without seeds? Between a rock and hungry place, that’s where!  Despite their importance, seeds don’t get the attention or respect they deserve. This month, we shine our bright ed…

The yuan is, in the Chinese language, the base unit of a number of modern Chinese currencies. The distinction between yuan and renminbi is analogous to that between the pound and sterling; the pound…

The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s extraordinar…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Julie Haviv

State-owned Bank of China Ltd has opened trading in the yuan currency to U.S. customers, according to a posting on the bank’s website dated December 2010…

By Paul Menchaca

After suffering often staggering losses since the financial crisis shook global markets in 2008, US endowments have been forced to reassess their approach to investing Many endowme…

By Brad DeLong

My suspicion is that this is simply coincidence and proves once again the dangers of drawing conclusions in the field of human action from historical data.

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For many people, smart phones are almost as indispensable as wallets. And soon, your smart phone could replace your wallet. A collection of the biggest wireless carriers, handset makers and software…

(24 September 2010) After six years of intense negotiations, parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety finally agreed on a new international treaty in Nagoya, Japan. According to the treaty, co…

Car was in a Capitol Hill garage. DC, Capitol police on the scene.

Deceased identified as Ashley Turton, wife of White House liaison to the House of Representatives Dan Turton.

Turton worked as a …

By Thom Weidlich

US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. lost a foreclosure case in Massachusetts’s highest court that will guide lower courts in that state and may influence others in the clash bet…

By Project Avalon

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Welcome to Facebook Members Want Stock In Facebook

This Group is dedicated to having Facebook members receive a share of the revenue that the site is generating. The site is currently valued at $500 …

By Paul Levy

Note: I consider this series of articles one of the most important things I’ve ever written. If after reading it you feel so inspired, please forward this to all of your friends and li…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this time avoided a repe…