The Purchase of Our RepublicThe massive consolidation of wealth, combined with the removal of any limits on money in campaigns, has allowed for the purchase of our government. Today I am publishing a comprehensive and important guest essay, The Purchase of Our Republic, by longtime correspondent Y. Falkson. Americans know that something is wrong, deeply wrong.
The Constitution Impaired; the Bill of Rights AnnulledTruthout is serializing Beatrice Edwards’ book, The Rise of the American Corporate Security State. To read more excerpts from this book, click here. Reason to be afraid #3: The separation of powers established by the Constitution is eroding. Rights guaranteed by constitutional amendments are becoming irrelevant.
Anat Admati on Seeing Through ‘The Banker’s New Clothes’This week, Bill speaks with Anat Admati, an economist at Stanford University, about how our banks are actually larger now than they were before the 2008 crash – and still living dangerously. In this TEDx Stanford talk she delivered earlier this year, Admati explains how she fell into a “rabbit hole” when she started studying banking around the time of the financial crisis.
World economic system is madness: Pope FrancisUpdated June 14, 2014 13:36:40 Pope Francis has launched a sweeping attack on the world’s economic system, saying it discards the young, puts money ahead of people and survives on the profits of war.
The Velocity Of Money In The U.S. Falls To An All-Time Record LowPreface by Washington’s Blog: Read this for background on why the velocity of money has crashed. By Michael Snyder: When an economy is healthy, there is lots of buying and selling and money tends to move around quite rapidly. Unfortunately, the U.S. economy is the exact opposite of that right now.
The Size Of The Derivatives Bubble Hanging Over The Global Economy Hits A Record HighBy Michael Snyder. The global derivatives bubble is now 20 percent bigger than it was just before the last great financial crisis struck in 2008. It is a financial bubble far larger than anything the world has ever seen, and when it finally bursts it is going to be a complete and utter nightmare for the financial system of the planet.
We anti-war protesters were right: the Iraq invasion has led to bloody chaosI have encountered no sense of vindication, no “I told you so”, among veterans of the anti-war protest of 15 February 2003 in response to the events in Iraq.
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdownA US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies. The multi-million dollar programme is designed to develop immediate and long-term “warfighter-relevant insights” for senior officials and decision makers in “the defense policy community,” and to inform policy implemented by “combatant commands.”
The fault in our starry-eyed ‘recovery’: 2014 looks like we’re going bust againForget the cheerleading from the White House. Nevermind the latest job numbers. Look at your wallets. Despite the persistent happy talk about a recovery, and the hundreds of charts that come along with it, the US economy is not getting better – it may actually be getting worse.
The French are right: tear up public debt – most of it is illegitimate anywayAs history has shown, France is capable of the best and the worst, and often in short periods of time. On the day following Marine Le Pen’s Front National victory in the European elections, however, France made a decisive contribution to the reinvention of a radical politics for the 21st century.
Bilderberg 2014: War Criminals, Big Oil and “Too Big to Jail” Banksters Meet in SecrecyBilderberg 2014: War Criminals, Big Oil and “Too Big to Jail” Banksters Meet in Secrecy Selected Articles The highly secretive Bilderberg group is holding its 62nd annual conference in Denmark from May 29 to June 1 at the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel in Denmark.
California county votes to secede from the stateImage from en.wikipedia.org Residents of a northern California county on Tuesday voted in favor of a measure that will now force local officials to consider a plan to secede from the state and form a new entity named Jefferson.
End Mass Incarceration NowFor more than a decade, researchers across multiple disciplines have been issuing reports on the widespread societal and economic damage caused by America’s now-40-year experiment in locking up vast numbers of its citizens. If there is any remaining disagreement about the destructiveness of this experiment, it mirrors the so-called debate over climate change.
World Bank warns of food riots as rising food prices push world populations toward revoltFriday, May 30, 2014by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Tags: World Bank, food riots, emergency preparedness (NaturalNews) A new report issued by the World Bank (1) warns that food prices are skyrocketing globally, with wheat up 18 percent and corn up 12 percent this quarter.
Mass Fish Deaths: Millions Have Been Found Dead All Over The World In The Past Month –Millions of fish are suddenly dying all over the planet. In fact, there have been dozens of mass fish death events reported in the past month alone. So why is this happening? Why are fish dying in unprecedented numbers all over the world?
‘Death of money’: Author Rickards predicts collapse of global monetary systemThe collapse of the monetary system awaits the world in the near future, says financial expert James Rickards. Russia and China’s desire to rid the US dollar of its global reserve currency status is an early sign of the “increasingly inevitable” crisis. “China has three trillion dollars, but they are buying gold as fast as they can.
I am a real spy, not low-level system administrator – SnowdenEdward Snowden was trained as a professional spy and actually worked undercover abroad for America’s biggest intelligence agencies, developing their IT security architecture, the whistleblower revealed in an exclusive interview to NBC News.
Why both sides of the political aisle are turning against Wall StreetMore Americans than ever believe the economy is rigged in favor of Wall Street and big business and their enablers in Washington. We’re five years into a so-called recovery that’s been a bonanza for the rich but a bust for the middle class. “The game is rigged and the American people know that.
