Google, Amazon, and Starbucks are being pilloried by the UK public accounts committee for their tax policies in the UK. Is this just? By Max Keiser At the center of the controversy is a loophole in the tax code that disregards a consumer’s physical presence and allows the company to treat them as if they were physically located in another […]
Exposing the truth about money creation by Brian Leslie (Sustainable Economics) “As one of the United Kingdom’s most advanced monetary thinkers, he see’s the fraudulent debt-money system as the key issue preventing reform toward a peaceful, socially just and sustainable future for humanity. His talk will connect money reform to the various other crucial issues which require urgent reform” – […]
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as “the most gagged person in the history of the United States” by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations? By Dr Nafeez Ahmed (Ceasefire) A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied […]
Hamid Karzai has let the Pentagon’s cat out of the bag — to the displeasure of the Obama Administration. The Afghan president revealed inside information about President Obama’s war plans after all U.S. “combat troops” completely withdraw in 17 months at the end of 2014 by Jack A. Smith As was known in recent years, the Obama Administration actually plans […]
World View: After the fiasco over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, people around the world are rightly sceptical about claims of gas attacks by Patrick Cockburn (The Independent) ‘I am not afraid of anything except for God and poison gas,” said an Iraqi officer who had fought in the Iran-Iraq war. “It’s like a ghost. You have no defence against it.” […]
So Bashar al-Assad has spoken – exclusively, to Argentine daily El Clarin (there’s a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil) by Pepe Escobar (Asia Times – ‘Roving Eye’) Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made some valuable points. The record shows that, yes, the regime has agreed several times to talk to the […]
Why not return to gold as the national currency? by Ellen Brown Since that question has come up often on Ellen Brown’s blog, a chapter from “Web of Debt” addressing it is posted below. Chapter 37 THE MONEY QUESTION: GOLDBUGS AND GREENBACKERS DEBATE “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” – William Jennings Bryan, 1896 Democratic Convention At […]
We all use money, we all rely on money. But do we know how money works? Where does money come from? How is money created? More than 97% of all the money that exists is created by banks when they make loans. When people first hear this, they often find it hard to believe. But we don’t want you to […]
Forget everything you learned about markets, economics and finance. Perhaps Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and other noted figures were wrong by Stephen Lendman Central banks run today’s world. Major ones matter most. Money printing madness controls everything. Love doesn’t make the world go round. Liquidity-driven markets reflect the power of bankers to do it. They’re more powerful than […]
Some questions make atheists feel second-class — and make you look like a jerk for asking them by Greta Christina Asked of Hispanic-Americans: “Are you in this country legally?” Asked of gays and lesbians and bisexuals: “How do you have sex?” Asked of transgender people: “Have you had the surgery?” Asked of African Americans: “Can I touch your hair?” Every […]
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE) by Paul Craig Roberts Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance […]
Refusing to go to War is Finally Being Recognised as a Brave Act From the Second World War refusenik to the 19-year-old Israeli, Holly Williams talks to five people who risked shame and suffering to take a stand as conscientious objector by Holly Williams The conscientious objector is a popular trope in any drama touching on the First World War: […]
