Emma Glanfield | Daily Mail | 10 Nov 2014 ISIS wants to introduce its own currency and plans to bring back solid gold and silver dinar coins, it has emerged. The Middle East terror group apparently wants to introduce its own Islamic currency as part of its attempts to solidify its makeshift caliphate. Militants are…
by Jeff Deist | Mises.org | November 12, 2014 Governments are facing a nonviolent revolution of ideas I promised you some optimism today. Perhaps one of the most optimistic libertarians ever was Murray Rothbard, a happy intellectual warrior if ever there was one. And he was very enthusiastic about the revolution of libertarian ideas,…
RT | 12 Nov 2014 “Ordinary people lost enormous amounts of money” when JP Morgan Chase sold millions in faulty loans – and taxpayers still paid a big chunk of its billion-dollar settlement with the government, investigative journalist Matt Taibbi told RT. READ MORE: Busted: JPMorgan inks record $13bn settlement In recent story published in…
Newsweek | 12 Nov 2014 Global regulators imposed penalties totalling $3.4 billion on five major banks, including UBS and Citigroup, on Wednesday for failing to stop their traders from trying to manipulate foreign exchange markets. Royal Bank of Scotland and JP Morgan were also fined over attempts to rig currency benchmarks in a year-long probe…
Tom Englehardt | 11 Nov 2014 [What follows is a transcript of a therapy session between the American Empire and a psychiatrist whose name we at TomDispatch have agreed not to disclose. Normally, even in an age in which privacy means ever less to anyone, we wouldn’t consider publishing such a private encounter, but the probative news value of the exchange is…
Trevor Timm | The Guardian | 10 Sept 2014 Thanks to a say-anything media, hawkish politicians and an Orwellian administration, a war-weary public is terrified. Are there any red lines anymore – or just launch buttons? Did you know that the US government’s counterterrorism chief Matthew Olson said last week that “there’s no credible information”…
GWPF | 12 Nov 2014 China Pledges To Peak CO2 Emissions – But Only After ‘Around 2030’ Today, the Presidents of the United States and China announced their respective post-2020 actions on climate change, recognizing that these actions are part of the longer range effort to transition to low-carbon economies, mindful of the global temperature…
Federico Pieraccini | Russia Insider | 26 Sept 2014 A commander of one of the Ukrainian neo-nazi battalions, the Donbass, Semyon Semyonchenko, has just returned from the US, where he met with senior senators from both parties, and received commitments of material support. He posted a comment on Facebook in which he gives a detailed explanation…
GWPF | 12 Nov 2014 Floods are a recurring feature of the Indian Monsoon London, 12 November: A new briefing paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation concludes that the most recent (September 2014) floods in the Kashmir region of India-Pakistan border which killed several dozen of people are a recurring feature of…