When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked – questions like: where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who […]
Geopolitics
Recent announcements by the leaders of several of the nations forming the international assistance force in Afghanistan regarding their involvement post 2014 and their reasons for staying at least until then make it appropriate to consider the ostensible reasons for the invasion and occupation of this strategically located country. In […]
The Congo maintains the second lowest GDP per capita despite having an estimated $24 trillion in untapped raw minerals deposits [17]; it holds more than 30% of the world’s diamond reserves [18] and 80% of the world’s coltan [19], the majority of which is exported to China for processing into […]
Everyone knows that the Obama administration has been steadily gearing up for a military campaign against Syria. Everyone also knows that Russia and China do not want to see this happen. Now Russia and China are sending military forces to Syria. [ … because some people plain just don’t […]
This version finally cuts several bogus quotes which have festered in the monetary reform literature for decades. The world economy is doomed to spiral downwards until we do 2 things: 1. outlaw government borrowing 2. outlaw fractional reserve lending Banks should only be allowed to lend out money they actually […]
News agencies continue to broadcast video about the situation in the Syrian city of Homs, where airstrikes performed by armed opposition continue lashing the southern province. [youtube]bEczSaj8uD8[/youtube]
China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, carrying the country’s first ever female astronaut along with her two male colleagues, blasted off earlier from the steppes of Gansu province in the north west, to cheers from a crowd at a special seeing-off ceremony. The three astronauts will have to link up with Beijing’s laboratory […]
Earlier this month, The Observer reported that “The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich ‘consuming’ countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn ‘producing’ nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed.” Journalist Ed Vulliamy informed […]
The unthinkable looks possible: a global financial crisis reminiscent of the one in 2008: A full-blown crisis to start in Greece, quickly move to the rest of Europe and then hit the US. Stocks and oil would plunge, the euro would sink against the U.S. dollar, and big banks would […]
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has run two articles alleging that Syrian Sunni rebels committed the Houla massacre, reporting that the victims were largely from Alawi and Shia minorities in Houla. . This is important because the Syrian government has been blamed for the massacre and the massacre has […]