CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela repatriated a final shipment of gold from foreign banks Monday, saying the country has withdrawn a total of $9 billion in its gold reserves and moved it to the country’s Central Bank. The shipment of 14 metric tons (15 tons) brought the total amount of ...

Rady Ananda Prisonplanet.com January 27, 2012Today, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. They have now joined the US and seven other nations that signed the treaty last October. &nb...

dailymailuk | Vladimir Putin has branded America a nation which 'wants to control everything' during a scathing verbal attack on the U.S. The Russian Premier said the USA is seeking to dominate the world and interfere with the internal matters of other countries. Mr Putin also said America w...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is denouncing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for questioning whether the U.S. might be behind a rash of cancer cases among Latin American leaders. The State Department on Thursday said Chavez's comments were "horrific and reprehensible." Spokeswoman Vict...

By Michael Snyder – BLN Contributing WriterHow many times have you heard the mainstream media dismiss certain points of view as“conspiracy theories”? It seems as though one of the easiest ways to brush something off is to label it as something that only “conspiracy theorists” would be...

By Michael Snyder – BLN Contributing WriterHow many times have you heard the mainstream media dismiss certain points of view as“conspiracy theories”? It seems as though one of the easiest ways to brush something off is to label it as something that only “conspiracy theorists” would be...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Standard & Poor's said Monday that it placed 15 members of the euro currency union on review for a possible downgrade as the debt crisis in the eurozone continues to worsen. The blanket warning applies to AAA-rated nations such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria...

www.abc.net.au | Parents who do not have their children fully immunised will be stripped of family tax benefits under a scheme announced by the Federal Government. The Government says 11 per cent of five-year-olds are not immunised and has announced a shake-up of the system which will take eff...

www.telegraph.co.uk/ | The defining moment was the fiasco over Wednesday's bund auction, reinforced on Thursday by the spectacle of German sovereign bond yields rising above those of the UK. If you are tempted to think this another vote of confidence by international investors in the UK, d...

endoftheamericandream.com | If you believe that the United States is the "sole superpower" in the world, then you really need to read the rest of this article.  Most Americans have very little idea what is actually going on in the rest of the world and how the global balance of power is shiftin...

Yahoonews.com | In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught and the U.S. government fears they will be or have been executed, according to four current and former U.S. officials with connections to th...

dailymail.co.uk | A shocking videotape of police forcefully pepper spraying a group of students staging a sit down protest has emerged. Footage of the tense standoff between police and Occupy demonstrators at the University of California, Davis, shows an officer using pepper spray on a group of ...

By Viktor Ivanov - Special to CNN | In early September, the upper house of the Afghan parliament accused the international community of failing to wage a successful fight against drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan. This accusation is supported, in their view, by the growth of the heroin ...

abc.com | More than half a million Haitians have contracted cholera, and an advocacy group has filed a complaint with the United Nations blaming the fast-moving epidemic on UN peacekeepers who allegedly allowed raw sewage to leach into a tributary of the nation's largest river. After half a century...

markcrispinmiller.com | An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were me...

Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. detected signs of nuclear fission at its crippled Fukushima atomic power plant, raising the risk of increased radiation emissions. No increase in radiation was found at the site and the situation is under control, officials said. The company, known as ...

bbc.co.uk | The global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that may ignite social unrest, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned. It will take at least five years for employment in advanced economies to return to pre-crisis levels, it said. The ILO also noted...

zerohedge.com | Let’s take an honest look at Europe. Merkel and Sarkozy claim they’ve got everything under control. They’re lying. Anyone who uses common sense can tell this. The reason…   They’ve never considered the true price tag for the leveraged EFSF. I’m not talking about money, I’m ...

weirdloadreboot.com | If you were to buy into the American Conservative fantasy of Israel you might imagine the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv filled with Orthodox Jews carrying Uzis, wearing big, black hats, and searching for the next bit of Palestinian territory that they can park mobile homes ...