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By ROAR Collective

A new report by the Transnational Institute — ‘Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the EU Crisis’ — looks at the ways in which excessive militarization direc…

By GoldMoney

Andy Duncan has the pleasure of interviewing Catherine Austin Fitts, known for her much-read Solari report. With a wealth of experience on Wall Street and time in Washington politics, …

By Clive Cookson

I start to walk across a street in a city of the near future. An autonomous electric car is gliding silently towards me, driving itself to pick up a group of passengers. The vehicl…

By Mark DeCambre

Talk about a nanny state.

Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company’s ubiquitou…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

I will be attending a “Special Hemp History Week Concert” by artist and ally John Trudell and Bad Dog at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California on Saturday, June …

(TPP): 17th Round of TPP Negotiations Set for Lima, Peru — May 15-24, 2013

We appreciate your interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The 17th round of TPP negotiations will …

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by Catherine Austin Fitts

We have created our first Solari Coin – a one ounce silver round designed for Solari by Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communication and minted for us by the Northwest Territoria…

By BBC News

Finance ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations are set to begin a two-day meeting on Friday.

Banking reforms will be top of the agenda at the meeting, which is being hel…

By Kauffman Foundation

The pace at which the United States produces $100-million companies has been stable over the last 20 years despite changes in the economy. However, according to a new Kauffma…

By RT

A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history of the infant technology. If some lawmakers have their way, …

By True Activist

McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever!

After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a network, the chain was forced to clos…

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By Sarah E. Needleman and Spencer E. Ante

Bitcoin startups are beginning to raise sizable investment capital even as industry leaders warn that hackers are abusin…

By InfoWars

Addressing 2013 graduates at the Ohio State University in Columbus today, Obama’s speech writers took the opportunity to remind outgoing grads that the government is definitely not �…

By Julia Irvine

In its annual Fraud Survey, it reveals that of the 3,000 board members, managers and their teams across 36 countries who were questioned, 42% of board directors and senior managers …

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By Truthdig

MR: No, no. Neil MacBride, just so you know, he’s the attorney, U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. … He’s the head U.S. attorney gu…

By Marielle Segarra

As companies wait for the Securities and Exchange Commission to finalize the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act rules, they may be eager to pounce on equity-based crowdfunding….

By Michael Sankowski

I’ve been getting into Solar lately – the fall in prices has been absolutely shocking over the last 2-4 years. We are seeing price drops closer to 20% per year after severa…

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By Reuters

Investigators from the agency that regulates power markets have found a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co manipulated trading in the California and Michiga…

By Michael Boldin

On Thursday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback received a letter from Federal Attorney General Eric Holder threatening action against the state should it enforce SB102 which Brownback…

By Louise Yamada

The technical observations suggesting risk for Gold spot price (GOLDS-1,462.09) over the past two months’ reports followed through with a severe decline in Gold through 1,539 sup…

By Bifurcated Carrots

There is an important vote coming up concerning proposed changes to EU seed law. This is a vote in the EU Commission, by written procedure, on Monday 6 May 2013.

If the legi…

By Robert W. Wood

Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if you think that means the IRS won’t get a piece, t…

[CAF Note: Is the planetary debt-for-equity we described in the 2nd Quarter Equity Review underway?]

By Sarah Jones

Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11 trillion in foreign-exchange reser…

Transcript of Jon Rappoport and Catherine discuss Hamilton Securities is now available to Subscribers!

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Last Five Years

Reviewing this comparison of the US equity markets to the performance of the largest gold and silver ETFs shows you why precious metals investors have be…

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By Araceli Cruz

If you haven’t noticed, there’s currently a mass exodus from Facebook taking place. In the past three months there’s been a drop among users in the …

By Hoisington Investment Management Company

“The Federal Reserve is printing money”. No statement could be less truthful. The Federal Reserve (Fed) is not, and has not been, “printing money�…

By David Gumpert

Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on his behalf, his trial looks likely t…

By James Surowiecki

When we all finished filing our tax returns last week, there was a little something missing: two trillion dollars. That’s how much money Americans may have made in the past ye…

By Staff Writers Washington (AFP)

The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of…

By Riverbend

April 9, 2013 marks ten years since the fall of Baghdad. Ten years since the invasion. Since the lives of millions of Iraqis changed forever. It’s difficult to believe. It feels like o…

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[CAF Note: Kudos to the EFF and all those who have stopped a really bad idea dead in its tracks for now]

By RT

Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief as …

By Liz Farmer

In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension transparency regulations for local and st…

By John Rubino

Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet face-to-face. In the following…

By Jim Farber

Richie Havens, a seminal member of the New York folk scene of the ’60s, died Monday morning from a sudden heart attack.

He was 72.

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[CAF Note: Geez – why allow our taxes to pay for the police state, when consumers can fund directly?]

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By Grant Williams

I am a seller of gold.

Just not yet — and certainly not anywhere close to this price.

One day, long into the future, it will be time to sell gold — or, more likely, to excha…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I stopped in Moscow, Idaho this weekend on my way to Portland Oregon. Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, in an area known as the Palouse.

I was visiting wit…

[CAF Note: Ever notice how bad things happen to people who stand up to Monsanto?]

By Alexandra Berzon

As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal ex…

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By James Nye, Louise Boyle, Simon Tomlinson and Jill Reilly

Scores of heavily-armed police swarmed a Boston suburb today as the net tightened around an ‘armed and dangerous’ suspect…

Painting By Patricia Coslor

She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Stephens College in Columbia, MO and also studied at Parson’s School of Design in New York, NY, The Art Student’s League …

By Elizabeth Landau

In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets.

Scientists announced Thursday the discovery of three planets that are some of the be…