What the numbers say about progress in Afghanistan (only 37% approve of War)
image: World Can’t Wait Adam Levine CNN American support for the war in Afghanistan has never been lower, according to the latest CNN polling. The…
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Gen. Hugh Shelton: Clinton Official Suggested Letting U.S. Plane Be Shot Down To Provoke War With Iraq
Jason Linkins Huffington Post In the publicity sheet that St. Martin’s Press has been sending out to spur interest in General Hugh Shelton’s new memoir,…
The Hidden Slavery of Interest
Anthony Migchels Activist Post – Contributing Writer Most advanced political and economic debate is dominated by the Americans. Through films like Zeitgeist Addendum, The Money…
The After-the-Fed Solutions Debate Begins: Greenbackers vs. Goldbugs
Eric Blair Activist Post The battle to expose the Federal Reserve has been long and arduous. It finally appears that after nearly 100 years of…
US Federal Reserve set on QE2 course as dissenter speaks out
The Federal Reserve’s leading opponent against more quantitative easing said there’s “no strong evidence” it will work, as the minutes from the central bank’s last…
Afghan civilian war injuries double in Kandahar conflict
Wounded patients flooding into hospitals, says Red Cross, while fighting is stopping the sick getting basic medical care Nosrait Shoaib/AFP/Getty Images Peter Beaument Guardian The…
420 Banks Demand Global Currency
Jerome Corsi The Intel Hub The Institute of International Finance, a group that represents 420 of the world’s largest banks and finance houses, has issued…
Currency Wars: The Phantom Financial Menace
AgentOgden Illustration Giordano Bruno NeitherCorp Press War, almost every kind of war, is first and foremost a production. A piece of live-action theater with “good…
The New World Order of Global Markets
Tectonic plates are shifting as emerging markets become major drivers of the developed world. Bob Lenzner Forbes The best minds in finance–George Soros, Mohammed El-Erian,…
Currency wars are necessary if all else fails
The overwhelming fact of the global currency system is that America needs a much weaker dollar to bring its economy back into kilter and avoid…
Forex markets on alert as IMF talks fail to gain currency
Foreign exchange markets are braced for fresh turbulence after talks at the IMF failed to ease fears of a currency war Larry Elliot Guardian The…
Mission to stop nuclear terrorism
(Editor’s Note: Osama bin Laden’s only form of communication seems to be recorded audio tape, while by the CIA’s own admission there are only 50-100 members…
Raids on Activists Indicates FBI Abuse of Power
Lance Page Image/Truth-Out Yana Kunichoff Truth-Out On the heels of a series of FBI raids on anti-war activists, an FBI whistleblower and constitutional rights groups…
Finance Leaders Call for IMF Role in Averting Protectionist `Currency War’
Sandrine Rastello and Iuri Dantas Bloomberg Global governments tasked the International Monetary Fund with calming the recent outbreak of tensions over currencies amid signs they…