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by David Goldman

Tech blogger Robert Cringely wrote last week that IBM would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000 employees, in a massive restructuring. The cuts will be …

by John Leyden

Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has jokingly admitted US spooks approached him to put a backdoor in his open-source operating system.

During a question-and-answer ?session ?at ?the Li…

by Glenn Greenwald

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse w…

by Jena McGregor

Last Thursday, a technology blogger for Forbes magazine reported that IBM was planning to cut 26 percent of its total workforce — or some 112,000 jobs — in a “bloodbath” of lay…

by Glenn Greenwald

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse wit…

by Bloomberg

Billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer is heading to the Swiss Alps this year with an upbeat message. “This is a magical time,” says Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital and a p…

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by Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy

Mario Draghi led the Central Bank into a new era, pledging to buy government bonds in an asset-purchase program worth at le…

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by Joseph P. Farrell

As you can tell, this week we’ve been primarily focused on geopolitics and financial news (as distinct from last week’s focus on some technological issues and their implication…

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
~ Pablo Neruda

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I spoke to a colleague last week. We had not spoken for a year or more. Each t…

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…

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”  ~Paul Samuelson

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday nig…

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…

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“Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.” ~ Charlie Munger

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday night is Team Awesome Sol…

By Gaia Pianigiani

NAPLES, Italy — One azure morning in December, Laura Cozzolino arrived at her corner cafe in central Naples and ordered her usual: a dense espresso, which arrived steaming h…

By Nick Lavars

3D printing technology may be some way off producing fully functional household appliances, but tiny steps are being made toward helping us out with our domestic duties. Hoover has …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Sometimes I have a profound sense of being ignored.

Actually, I am not being ignored. Rather, I live among caring, well educated Americans with a profound desire to NOT f…

[CAF Note: Is a Jeb Bush campaign going to clear the decks by hanging it all on Cheney?]

Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the tort…

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North Korea–United States Relations developed primarily during the Korean War, but in recent years have been largely defined by North Korea’s three tests …

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By Heather Somerville

TRACY, Calif. — Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world’s newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world’s ol…

The year we piled up risks like a global game of Tetris

by David Collum

Every December, I write a Year in Review (ref 1–7) first posted on Chris Martenson’s website Peak Prosperity (ref 2) wi…