A New York federal appeals court has ruled that Ecuadorean plaintiffs cannot collect a $9 billion judgment in the US against Chevron for rainforest damage. The case has been labelled the “biggest environmental case in the world.” The decision by…
When Bloomberg reported late last year that China founded a working group to explore the use of the supranational Special Drawing Rights (SDR) currency, nobody took heed. Now in August of 2016, we are very close to the first SDR issuance…
Shawn Lucas… Call it conspiracy theory, coincidence or just bad luck, but any time someone is in a position to bring down Hillary Clinton they wind up dead. In fact, as we noted previously, there’s a long history of Clinton-related…
A right-leaning group involved in the legal battle over 17 states’ and territories’ investigations into Exxon Mobil Corp. obtained a legal agreement between the state attorneys general. According to the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, the agreement broadly conceals communications between the states…
From ButtCracker This guy gives new meaning to the expression “talking out your ass”—-all he has to do is keep his mouth/ass shut and he would have a chance———A TRUE BUTTHEAD
Despite a concerted campaign in America to link the Republican nominee with the Kremlin, there is no evidence to support the narrative that the Russian government wants Donald Trump to become the next US President. The novelist Sidney Sheldon, who…
By Jon Rappoport Votes are being counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers. As we know, there are a number of ways to rig an election. Bev Harris, at blackboxvoting.org, is exploring a specific “cheat sheet” that has vast…
By Matt Agorist “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” – Joseph Stalin (allegedly) One thing in US history is…
Yves Smith Photo: DemocracyNOW Yves here. It’s remarkable to see the way the claim that the DNC hack was the doing of America’s Enemy Number One is being flogged on thin to non-existence evidence. This is reminiscent of the Sony…
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein © Dominick Reuter / Reuters Democrats and Republicans are controlled by banks, oil giants, insurance companies and war profiteers, says Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein. Her party, she claims, gets no…
