and Eliminating Cash. More than one-fifth of the world's total GDP is in countries which have imposed negative interest rates, including Japan, the EU, Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden. Negative interest rates are spreading worldwide.
A Colorado teenager named Coltyn Turner just celebrated the 22nd month of his debilitating Crohn's Disease being in remission, after beginning cannabis oil treatment.
Version. When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media -- aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression -- uncritically cited the U.S. government's explanation for what happened.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a U.N. panel ruled he had been arbitrarily detained and should be awarded compensation.
Washington (AFP) - Islamic State fighters have streamed into Libya in recent months, a US official said Thursday, heightening fears the extremists are gaining ground and influence in the north African country.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The nation's trade deficit rose 2.7% in December as exports fell again, capping the first year since 2009 in which U.S. exports have declined.
(NaturalNews) The convenient single-use laundry packets that people toss in their clothes washer are posing serious health risks to young children who tend to mistake the colorful, clear pouches--commonly referred to as "pods" as popularized by the T
It was just two days ago that Bloomberg implored officials to "bring on a cashless future" in an Op-Ed that calls notes and coins "dirty, dangerous, unwieldy, and expensive."
The following reader comment, posted originally in the FT is a must read, both for the world's lower and endangered middle classes but especially the members of the 1% elite because what may be coming next could be very unpleasant for them.
Would it be ethical for scientists to try to create babies that have genetic material from three different people? An influential panel of experts has concluded the answer could be yes.
Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq is building a three-metre-high security wall and trench defences around Baghdad in an effort to thwart jihadist attacks, a security official said on Thursday.
Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq is building a three-metre-high security wall and trench defences around Baghdad in an effort to thwart jihadist attacks, a security official said on Thursday.
The city of Homs was at the heart of the revolt against Assad in 2011, and was one of the first urban areas to be overrun by the Syrian rebels. It was a stronghold for the FSA for several years, and was under siege by the Syrian Army until very recen
The admission that the economy is so weak that it needs more QE is going to destroy the narrative that the U.S. economy is in great shape and it's no longer going to be the safe haven for capital around the world…
How do the neocons continue to be considered experts when they are wrong all the time? Robbie Martin, director of the three-part documentary "A Very Heavy Agenda," will join today's Liberty Report to discuss how no matter who is in power, the neocons
Across the world there is a war being waged against cash. Driven in part by increasingly bankrupt banks - some of which are quasi-governmental themselves - governments are thinking of ways to extract the last dollar from their taxpayers.
(NaturalNews) Scientists are beginning to uncover the mechanisms by which plants -- which depend upon sunlight to provide them with energy -- protect themselves from the damaging effects of the sun's ultraviolet rays.
(NaturalNews) The latest revelation regarding the Zika virus involves a genetically-altered mosquito project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -an experiment which some suspect may have caused the rapid spread of a once-rare disease.
David Petraeus shared highly classified information so he could sell more books, and got a slap on the wrist. Edward Snowden shared highly classified information to expose government's secret abuse of power, and is now a wanted man.
(NaturalNews) According to a recent report by the U.S. Geological Survey, male bass are experiencing sex changes due to chemicals that are found in most waterways across Northeast National Wildlife Refuges.
For the last 75 years, almost every economic crisis has been preceded by an oil price spike. The worry now is that low energy prices are pushing the global economy into a tailspin.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The capital spending slump that originated in the hard-hit energy sector appears to be spreading more widely across other U.S. industries.