Broke US States May Have No Choice But to Ask for a Washington Bailout

The U.S. national debt is a major issue. And as time passes, this issue brings  the country’s sovereignty into question. Our national debt—the money owed by the  U.S. government and, ultimately, the taxpayers—stands close to $17.0 trillion  and growing.

Conspiracies of Culture – Why Is The World Playing North Korea’s Game?

Conspiracies of Culture Last year, in an article about the stock markets, I wrote about something which I called 'conspiracies of culture'. This is the idea that something which looks very much like a conspiracy to an outside observer can arise without the need for sinister groups to be ...

Beat the Banksters with Crowdbanking – Stop Feeding the Leech

By Market Curator Bankster: A portmanteau or blend word derived from combining "banker" and "gangster." Usually referred to in the plural form "banksters" to refer to a predatory element within the financial services industry - Urban Dictionary From The Advocate (click to visit) The Global Financial Crisis ...

Who Cares About America’s Financial Mess? Let’s Just Print More Money

Money printing by the Federal Reserve will continue into the near future. And while it will help America avert a recession, the flow of easy money will be disastrous over the longer term.

Al Qaeda Terrorists Take Key Military Base in Syria

Rebel fighters from two Islamist brigades took control of a key Syrian military air base on Saturday. The base is located close to the strategically important southern international highway - an important supply route into the capital Damascus. For many months there has little progress for either side ...

Election of First Jesuit Pope Feeds Conspiracy Theories

When Benedict XVI become the first pope to resign from office in hundreds of years, and only the second in history, I wrote about some of the conspiracy theories surrounding his departure. Now that his replacement has been named I felt that it was time ...

Have the Middle East Water Wars Already Begun?

Oil has always been thought of as the traditional cause of conflict in the Middle East past and present. Since the first Gulf oil well gushed in Bahrain in 1932, countries have squabbled over borders in the hope that ownership of a patch of desert ...

U.S. Conspiring with Taliban Claims Afghan President

President Hamid Karzai has claimed that the United States is conspiring with the Taliban in order to justify its continuing military presence in Afghanistan. Karzai made the extraordinary claim during an already difficult visit by the new US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Referring to a set of ...

Language Matters: Western Media Bias in Israel / Palestine Reporting

I found this on Tumblr - many thanks to That Infernal Racket. I think it shows quite succinctly and clearly the media bias which is present in many mainstream western media outlets when reporting on the Israel / Palestine conflict. The language which is used ...

Propaganda Wars – BBC Radio Blocked in China

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) claimed on Monday that its English language World Service radio channel is being jammed in China. The BBC, Britain's state media organisation, suggested that Chinese authorities were responsible for the disruption. "The BBC has received reports that World Service English shortwave ...

Al Qaeda Manifesto Found in Mali Shows a Changing Strategy

Page 1 of the first chapter in a six-chapter letter written by Abdelmalek Droukdel, the senior commander appointed by Osama bin Laden to run al-Qaida's branch in Africa, is shown in this photo taken in Timbuktu, Mali, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. (AP) A nine-page manifesto ...

Is ‘Big Brother’ Style Government Spying a Threat to the Innocent?

There have been a few stories about mass surveillance of the general public by government intelligence agencies in the press already this year. Twitter's transparency report released in late January showed that the site had a 20% increase in government requests for its users data. ...