Ellen Brown chairs the Public Banking Institute and has written thirteen books, including her latest, Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. She also co-hosts a radio program on PRN.FM called It’s Our Money.
I had Doctor Daniel Brown from Harvard spend 70 hours with Sirhan over almost three years [and] he comes away with this staggering, staggering evaluation. He says Sirhan was hypnoprogrammed ….. a technique of using chemicals as well as hypnosis ….. The program on him makes him forget everything within a certain time frame ….. He remembers when he gets a pinch on the neck [that] what he sees is not Senator Kennedy. It’s a paper target of a human being.
— William Pepper, 2013, speaking at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing. Defenders of the Bolivarian project, though, say that US sanctions and economic war are to blame for the crisis. Greg Wilpert presents an analysis that tries to take all the factors into account.
Introduction
The US Chamber of Commerce warns against the consequences of new tariffs on Chinese imports proposed by the administration of President Donald Trump.
For fear of the effects of US sanctions, the Iranian Rial is on the way down, quite literally. Following Trump’s withdraw from the 2015 nuclear non proliferation agreements commonly known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Washington is reimposing sanctions which will affect its financial, currency, previous metal, energy, and other markets, causing them to nosedive. On November 4th, the oil sanctions will go into effect, and expectations about the future of Iran’s oil business are not positive.
(ANTIMEDIA) — As the Trump administration moves forward with its plan to impose tariffs on goods shipped into the U.S., like steel and aluminum, the term “trade war” is emerging in headlines across the media. Abandoning the principle of free trade marks a monumental shift in America’s stance towards the globalized economy and will undoubtedly come with severe repercussions. President Trump seems […]
BEIJING — Wall Street is bracing for a potential shake-up as China is set to launch its first-ever crude oil futures contract late March at the Shanghai Futures Exchange.
The move, which had been laid out in 2012 but faced delays over possible market turbulence, could represent a bold step forward in China’s rise as an economic superpower and global hegemon. The contracts will be priced in China’s currency, the renminbi or yuan, marking the birth of what many are calling the “petroyuan.”
Bitcoin’s price explosion made news headlines this last year. Topics of digital assets entered onto dinner tables and friendly chats at work places. Fever of the digital gold rush that has swept mainstream finance became contagious.
