SPAIN - Extreme, neo-fascist groups in Spain are preparing for a show of force during this weekend’s nationalist holiday, and Spanish authorities are keeping a close eye on the situation.
USA - As Washington is struggling with debt and all its political ramifications, American companies and consumers are embracing it, running up record amounts in 2013. Whether it's corporate loans, all quality levels of bonds or simple consumer credit, the debt party is back on in the US, whether it's in the boardroom or the living room.
UK - It’s bad enough when Christian parents send their children to public schools to be “educated” by anti-Christian kooks and bigots. But when they hit their own spiritual, emotional, or psychological potholes, very often they send themselves to anti-Christian kooks and bigots.
USA - Joining six continents, 52 countries and over 500 cities, ‘March against Monsanto’ is planning its second mass rally Saturday against the biotech giant and genetically modified food. A number of Agent Orange victims are expected to join the protest.
GREECE - Should Greece have a large part of its debt waived? Absolutely, says George Soros, otherwise the country will never recover. The billionaire investor also warns about the rise of extremist parties if Germany does not change its policies towards Europe.
BERLIN, GERMANY - German foreign policy makers are playing a prominent role in the rapprochement between the West and Iran.
WASHINGTON, USA - Foreign policy analysts at home and abroad have been predicting for years the inevitable decline of American power, often with a fair amount of schadenfreude and sometimes even with glee.
USA - There have been plenty of complaints about people who jump to conclusions too quickly online, but apparently at times that can actually have a material impact on things.
USA - Before Wall Street took a bazooka loaded with credit default swaps and toxic mortgage securitizations and fired it directly at the heart of the US economy, we had a very stable banking system.
USA - This doesn’t fit the MSM storyline. They have been reporting the dramatic jobs recovery for the last few months and facts are very inconvenient to this storyline. What does the MSM blame it on?
USA - US Republicans have offered President Barack Obama a short-term debt limit increase to stave off default. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said they would do so in exchange for negotiations with the White House to end a government shutdown that took effect on 1 October.
USA - US President Barack Obama has officially nominated Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank. He called her one of the nation's foremost economists and policy makers.
USA - We now know where we stand. Janet Yellen is to take over the US Federal Reserve, the world's monetary hegemon, the master of all our lives.
USA - It’s clear to everyone by now that the government of the largest country in the world is careening towards default in just over 200 hours.
USA - In its report on shadow banking, the New York Fed buried some nuggets: Hedge funds and banks are bailing out of the highest-risk “opaque” but now relatively low-yielding loans – low yielding thanks to the Fed’s repressive monetary policies – by selling them to small investors via harmless-sounding and conservative-appearing mutual funds and ETFs.