By Laura Litvan and Kathleen Hunter

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he opposes legislation to speed approval of trade deals, rejecting a top goal of U.S. exporters a day after President Bara…

By Chris Puplava

Emerging markets have been hemorrhaging this year and are now grabbing media attention. However, as the charts show, the decline in these markets and currencies has been taking pla…

By James Gallagher

Stem cell researchers are heralding a “major scientific discovery”, with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.

Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now…

**CAF Note: I asked one of our subscribers if I could republish his comment on GMOs and Nano-Technology engineering of the food supply. This guy is essentially so knowledgeable about food and so in…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

President Obama has the challenging task of trying to persuade us that the US government should have a hand in softening the blow of income inequality.

While the Presiden…

By Wikipedia

Peter “Pete” Seeger was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A subscriber sent me a picture of chicken coops for sale at a Costco in Silicon Valley, in the suburbs south of San Francisco, saying he never thought he would see such a …

By LeWeb Founders

Hugo…updates us on his new role at Xiaomi, running their product portfolio and operations in all markets outside Mainland China. He shares his views on the tech sector in China …

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The use of the federal budget t…

By The Transnational Institute

The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in Davos. This anthology exposes and ana…

Photo Credit: Daein Ballard/Wikipedia

By Wikipedia

Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the theoretical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, te…

By Alfred McCoy

For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Ger…

By Gloria Goodale

As California faces the worst drought in its 163-year history with no hint of relief in sight, some scientists are calling the event a red flag for the future of the nation.

Gov. J…

By Tenth Amendment Center

The state-level effort to turn off water and electricity to the National Security Agency (NSA) got a major boost today as legislators in Tennessee introduced a bill to ban t…

By Sarah N. Lynch

Chinese units of the global “Big Four” accounting firms should be suspended from auditing U.S.-listed companies for six months, a judge in the United States ruled, in an escalatio…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The latest round of bank profit announcements is worth contemplating, as is the chart above which shows the stock history of several large financial institutions (Deutsche…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Federal finances depend on the …

By Katie Peek

The U.S. is still the only country that’s sent people to the moon, but more nations are steadily joining us in space. South Korea sent up its first satellite last year. In the fall,…

By The Economist

About 540m years ago something amazing happened on planet Earth: life forms began to multiply, leading to what is known as the “Cambrian explosion”. Until then sponges and othe…

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By Eva Golinger

3-1-14 – . During 2013, Venezuela experienced one of the most difficult times in its history with the death of President Hug…

By World Economic Forum

First launched in 2005 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Risks report is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading publications on global risks. The report ide…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Mobile marketing company Jana just published a new survey of 1,000+ mobile users in Asia, Africa and South America. What they found was pretty interesting. Mobile users t…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If you follow market commentators, one of the themes you are hearing a great deal about is the question of what, exactly, is going to cause the stock market in the develop…

By Wikileaks

Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report. The TPP transn…

Photo Credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai

By RT

Should internet service providers be allowed to restrict access to websites and block certain content from customers depending on how much they pay to be c…

By Brian Swint

The U.S. will be able to provide for all its own energy needs by 2035 as output of shale oil and gas accelerates and demand growth slows, BP Plc said.

The country, which became the wo…

By The Economist

Imagine you were heavily in debt, owned a large portfolio of equities and under-used property and were having trouble cutting your spending—much like most Western governments. Wo…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am always on the look out for gems.

There is a new one in West Texas, in a small town named Ballinger.  It is an “old timey” theatre called the old Texas Theatre.

For…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The U.S. stock, bond and commod…

By Zack Miller

With all the negativity and skepticism swirling around the SEC’s recent proposition to liberalize the laws of equity crowdfunding, it’s time for some contrarian content that shed…

By Robert S. Dotson, M.D.

Avoid contact with the existing health care system as far as possible. Yes, emergencies arise that require the help of physicians, but by and large one can learn to care for…

**CAF Note: This is about privatizing the police state. Fascism 3.0**

By Ellen Nakashima

President Obama met Thursday with senior lawmakers on opposing sides of a debate about whether to end the Nat…

By Alister Doyle

Everyone in Norway became a theoretical millionaire on Wednesday in a milestone for the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund that has ballooned thanks to high oil and gas prices.
…

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
~English Nursery Rhyme

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Canad…

By Nick Turse

“Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me.

More than a month before, I had called US S…

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~ Elon Musk

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the year-end wrap up published for subscribers last week, I de…

By Lina Khan

Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about where to plant seeds, spray fertilize…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Federal enforcement is focused …

By Tyler Durden

Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: “The U.S. Federal Reserve Police is the law enforcement arm of th…

By David B. Collum

Every December, I write a Year in Review or, as my wife calls it, my Urine Review. It has found a home at Chris Martenson’s website PeakProsperity.com with a secondary posting …