As part of the Chavez administration’s drive for greater financial security and economic sovereignty, 14 tons of Venezuela’s gold reserves once held outside the nation were brought back home last Monday, concluding the government’s plan to repatriate 160 tons of the precious metal from foreign banks. The shipment arrived at... » read this article

While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power... » read this article

Without much fanfare, the Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy released a report on 2011 energy commodity prices yesterday. It confirmed that crude oil and key petroleum products set annually averaged price records last year. This largely snuck up on us, because it occurred without the kind... » read this article

Editor's Note: It's one thing for a writer to explain a complex issue with his or her peers within their own discipline. But there's a certain genius among those who can translate the story into lay terms which the rest of us can grasp. We are grateful to Annibale Marsili... » read this article

Editorial comment: I at first discarded Mike Dillard as a guy who is just interested in how to make a fortune. He does talk about teaching us how to get rich. Now, that's something I just don't care about since I wouldn't know what to do with my millions, except... » read this article

Chief executive pay has roared back after two years of stagnation and decline. America's top bosses enjoyed pay hikes of between 27 and 40% last year, according to the largest survey of US CEO pay. The dramatic bounceback comes as the latest government figures show wages for the majority of... » read this article

Over the next few decades we are facing the possibility, indeed the probability, of global catastrophe on a level unprecedented in human history. The message of science is clear. As James Hansen, the foremost climate scientist in the United States, has warned, this may be “our last chance to save... » read this article

During the protests in Tahrir Square in November 2011, Mohamed Ali, age 20, responded to a journalist’s query as to why he was there: “We want social justice. Nothing more. That’s the least that we deserve.” The first round of the movements took multiple forms across the world—the so-called Arab... » read this article

Editorial comment: My apology for being late on this interview. It is a couple of months old, but I am sure it is as relevant today as it has ever been, if not more so. - SON Obama hits the road President Obama is going on a national bus tour... » read this article

"It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of dollars every day but why make these bets affect the fellow who is plowing a field out in Claremore, Oklahoma?" My all time favorite Cherokee, Will Rogers, wrote that in 1924. Today, most of the fellows plowing fields... » read this article

Occupy brings a new focus: Protesters moving us from the terror era to the income-inequality era. When thousands of Egyptian protesters took over Tahrir Square in events widely celebrated as the Arab Spring, I don't recall anyone being concerned that they were violating local bylaws. Of course, Egypt was a... » read this article

Editor's Commentary: So let's be honest here. I'm a Canadian, and I'm getting pretty sick of listening to my government tell me what a splendid job it does with our economy. The fact is, whatever we've done right was done almost two decades ago, long before the present government even... » read this article

Shark-like, they rise fast but risk killing the world economy, concludes a business professor.   Given the state of the global economy, it might not surprise you to learn that psychopaths may be controlling the world. Not violent criminals, but corporate psychopaths who nonetheless have a genetically-inherited biochemical condition that... » read this article

Today, activists across the country plan to stage demonstrations in solidarity with Zuccotti Park’s evicted protesters. Early this morning, hundreds of demonstrators are marching on Wall Street, taking over the Financial District with mass protests. Police have moved in and started to arrest many of the demonstrators, who are blocking... » read this article

A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales to the Future for Food Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC - 3rd May 2011 President de Gioia, Ladies and Gentlemen. Having such fond memories of my last visit, it is a great joy to be invited back to Georgetown to speak at... » read this article

With a few nylon tents and some amateurish banners, the Occupy movement has rattled the establishment The mayor of London demands a law against it to stop tent villages "erupting like boils" across the capital. If you lived like Boris, you too might be a bit paranoid about boils. The... » read this article

Protesters camped outside London's St Paul's Cathedral are to be allowed to stay until next year, lawyers acting for the group have claimed. Local authorities have offered protesters a deal "to stay on site until the new year" in return for the group agreeing to abandon their demonstration. John Cooper,... » read this article

EDITOR'S COMMENTARY It isn't a stretch to say that the Occupy movement is hard to pin down. It seems to have arisen almost overnight, and has spread to many cities around the globe. Some of its goals seem obvious, but there is still a lot of confusion surrounding the direction... » read this article

Only a couple of centuries ago, owning another person — slavery, that is — was considered a normal thing to do. But, starting in the late 18th century, slavery was abolished throughout Europe and the Americas (in 1834 in Upper Canada) after the rise of an abolition movement based on... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We have published many articles that explain the plans of Global Corporate Empire for a new world government, a world central bank, single world currency and one world military in the past. But in this video, David Icke breaks it down all down with exquisite clarity and provides... » read this article