Aggregated news and blog articles from around the Web.
“Capital flight” takes on a bitterly ironic meaning. By Wolf Richter | 12 January 2017 WOLF STREET — The People’s Bank of China announced on Wednesday that it is probing the major bitcoin exchanges in Beijing […]
13 January 2016 ACC MAGAZINE — Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor […]
By Tyler Durden | 12 January 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Facebook just can’t seem to catch a break lately. From questionable privacy policies and mass data collection of its users to its handling of the so-called […]
Ruling Fidesz party vice president pledges to ‘sweep out’ NGOs Premier Orban, Trump backer, vowed to build ‘illiberal state’ By Zoltan Simon | 10 January 2017 BLOOMBERG — George Soros now that Donald Trump will […]
By David Dayen | 3 January 2017 THE INTERCEPT — One West Bank, which Donald Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, ran from 2009 to 2015, repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws during that period, according […]
The Risk of Contagion of a full-blown Mexican crisis is far greater today than it was during the Tequila Crisis 22 years ago. By Don Quijones | 8 January 2017 WOLF STREET — Things are rapidly […]
A taped conversation between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the owner of a leading newspaper has shocked Israelis – here’s why. By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 9 January 2017 HAARETZ — It’s a revelation that’s shaking up […]
By Jenna Hanchard | 14 December 2016 KING 5 NEWS — A satanic after school club at a Tacoma elementary school is causing concern among some parents and community members. The Seattle Satanic Temple hosted an […]
ANTONIUS AQUINAS Neo-Marxist Pope Francis As the new year dawns, it seems the current occupant of St. Peter’s Chair will take on a new function which is outside the purview of the office that the […]
Police receive buckets of money in grants from outside the city’s oversight, and are thus not accountable for how it is used. Police departments need to be put back under the total direction of the […]
Israeli Embassy made vow to ‘take down’ Foreign Office deputy Sir Alan Duncan Bombshell footage covertly filmed in restaurant, obtained by Mail on Sunday Senior diplomat is egged on by a senior aide to another Conservative […]
It blames the Fed & Bernanke; the dark side of “healing” the housing market. By Wolf Richter | 7 January 2017 WOLF STREET — The housing collapse during the Financial Crisis keeps on giving. On Friday, […]
By Tyler Durden | 5 January 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Four days after the first sporadic protests emerged in Mexico City, following the infamous “gasolinazo”, or mandatory 15%-20% increase in Mexican gas prices which went into […]
By Jessie Hellmann | 5 January 2016 THE HILL — Donald Trump‘s team is demanding politically appointed ambassadors leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, The New York Times reports. The mandate could leave the U.S. […]
2 January 2017 GEFIRA — The rule of law is often invoked as a Western value that “populist” movements want to destroy, yet the establishment’s own governments have long suspended that very same rule of law […]
By Dr. Fly | 31 December 2016 IBANKCOIN — The propaganda coming out of the Washington Post isn’t even creative or convincing. It’s the type of nonsense that one instantly dismisses as the work of a […]
By Mac Slavo | 30 December 2016 SHTF PLAN — Behold, the power of banksters, and the very rapid shift into the cashless, digital control grid that has been an objective now for many decades. Suddenly, […]
By Alexa Erickson | 28 September 2016 COLLECTIVE EVOLUTION — Scour the aisles of the grocery store, and you may be astonished to find just how many types of Pringles there are out there. But while there […]
By Irish Savant | 11 November 2016 OCCIDENTAL OBSERVER — In common with many Trump supporters on the alt-right I’ve long harboured a horrible doubt that – just maybe – he was a huckster using his […]
By Kate Feldman | 25 December 2016 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — A&E finally canceled its controversial docu-series on the Ku Klux Klan — but not because of the backlash. Barely two weeks before the documentary […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan | 29 December 2016 BUCHANAN.ORG — Donald Trump has a new best friend. “President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support of Israel,” gushed Bibi Netanyahu, after he […]
By Tyler Durden | 29 December 2016 ZERO HEDGE — Celebrity chef and host of CNN’s Parts Unknown Anthony Bourdain is no fan of Trump, and he made as much clear in today’s interview with Reason. […]
By Wolf Richter | 27 December 2016 Monte dei Paschi di Siena sinks deeper into the mire. WOLF STREET — Over the Christmas holidays, when no one was supposed to pay attention, and when the markets […]
By Kyle Hunt | 26 December 2016 RENEGADE TRIBUNE — On Christmas Eve George Ciccariello-Maher, Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia, sent out his holiday wish over Twitter. Here is a brief […]
By Penarddun | 28 December 2016 DAILY STORMER — This white knight game reviewer Chris Suellentrop is leading a fight against Nintendo’s first Mario mobile game Super Run Mario, claiming that it’s inappropriate for children due to its stereotypical […]
By Dr. Fly | 25 December 2016 IBANK COIN — I’d like to be able to say France withdrawing from the EU is a potential downside catalyst for stocks. However, these days nothing matters. Stocks would […]
23 December 2016 XINHUA — The recent murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was an attempt to worsen Russian-Turkish ties, but in vain, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday at his annual year-end […]
By Mac Slavo | 23 December 2016 SHTF PLAN — OK, this is actually pretty obvious – but it is worth pointing out that the “archipelago” of islands across the vast expanse of the United States […]
By Tyler Durden | 24 December 2016 ZERO HEDGE — Following yesterday’s unexpected vote in the United Nations, when the United States broke with a long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel, and did not wield its […]
By Matthew Jamison | 24 December 2016 STRATEGIC CULTURE FOUNDATION –During the 2016 Republican Primary Campaign which was one of the most immature, intellectually insubstantial and vicious in the history of American politics – devoid […]