The Next Crash is coming. Equity markets (especially U.S. markets) have been pumped up to bubble levels. Bond markets (especially the U.S. bond market) have been pumped up to absurd, bubble levels – and it isn’t even supposed to be…
Exclusive: As U.S. politicians and pundits have fun talking tough about Russia and demonizing President Putin, they are missing signs that Moscow isn’t amused and is preparing for actual conflict, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. During the Reagan administration, I…
September 27, 2016 – After repeated, but ignored, warnings over the past two years from researchers at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), the new banking crisis has arrived with a vengeance and at a most inopportune time…
Exclusive: A prominent neocon paymaster, whose outfit dispenses $100 million in U.S. taxpayers’ money each year, has called on America to “summon the will” to remove Russian President Putin from office, reports Robert Parry. The neoconservative president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National…
Submitted by: ButtCracker Hofstra and Washington Universities hosted the first and second presidential debates respectively, yet neither alumni nor students of these institutions of higher learning were seen anywhere near the campus venues. What gives? Following a sleepless night cringing…
I recently returned from a fascinating two week speaking tour in China. The occasion was the international premier of my newest book, One Belt, One Road–China and the New Eurasian Century. In the course of my visit I was invited…
The whales’ deaths are symbolic of humanity’s shocking disregard for marine life. In January, 29 sperm whales were found stranded on shores around the North Sea, an area that is too shallow for the marine wildlife. Only recently were details…
Monsanto Company announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016 earnings on Wednesday, with mixed results showing the company is under pressure. The St. Louis-based seed and chemical company’s net loss for the fourth quarter was $191 million, which is…
Submitted by: ButtCracker Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan © Gary Cameron / Reuters “Three to five days” is all the time the CIA needs to predict the “development of social unrest” in many cases, the agency’s newest office…
In this premier episode of The Geopolitical Report with Kurt Nimmo, we examine Google’s Jigsaw, an emerging technology that will be used on the internet to counter speech and ideas considered “extremist” by the global elite. Initially beta tested on…
Submitted by: ButtCracker Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials said. Although the number of disappearances…
Water protectors with the Standing Rock Sioux gained new support as nineteen members of Congress called on the Obama Administration to withdraw permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The opponents of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline have recently gained a…
Just days after admitting that some 500 millions of its email accounts were hacked (allegedly Russians, of course), the Yahoo confessional continues as Reuters reports, somewhat stunningly that, Yahoo secretly built software to search all of its customers’ incoming emails…
A group of ex-U.S. intelligence officials is warning President Obama to defuse growing tensions with Russia over Syria by reining in the demonization of President Putin and asserting White House civilian control over the Pentagon. ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals…
The warrant the FBI used in the Playpen investigation—which resulted in the delivery of malware to over a thousand computers, located around the world—violated Rule 41, an important rule of federal criminal procedure. Although Rule 41 may seem obscure, it…
SAN RAFAEL, CA – AUGUST 20: Bottles of Arrowhead water are displayed on a shelf at a convenience store on August 20, 2014 in San Rafael, California. Despite the historic California drought that has left most of State to ration…
Drug Policy Forum of California Pro-reform candidates are in green; Anti-reform in red; Neutral in black. (ref to orig for color) PROP 64 – PRESIDENT – US CONGRESS – CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE – LOCAL RACES – BALLOT PROPOSITIONS Proposition 64 Californians…
Submitted by ButtCracker “In the wake of the DNC server hack and well-documented efforts by states to suppress the vote, citizens are rightly concerned,” Rep. Hank Johnson said in a statement. A pair of comprehensive, complimentary election infrastructure reform bills,…
We get reaction to this week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing where Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf over a growing scandal at the major Wall Street bank involving thousands of employees who took private customer information to…
Submitted by: ButtCracker New Revelations—always on a Friday or just before a major holiday, or both A 189-page summary of interviews conducted in the year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private server shed new light on the shifting stories Clinton’s aides…
