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Abby Martin Interviews Naomi Wolf on America’s steps toward fascism and how fake democracies are rolling out a global blueprint for social control. Via breakingtheset

US To Mediate Ukraine Crisis? The US is now welcome to mediate the Ukraine crisis?  In a strange (and potentially disturbing) turn of events, Yahoo! News today is reporting:  Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov said […]

Should the rest of the world start paying attention to this particularly interesting world paring?  Yahoo News says in an article:  China’s authoritarian President Xi Jinping and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin share similar views on […]

This weekend, Catalans are holding a symbolic regional independence vote, in defiance of the Spanish government’s ban. The vote is now more about freedom of expression and polls look set to draw upward of 1.5 […]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund boss caught up in a string of scandals, has just seen his one-year old investment banking firm go down the drain, reports UK Business Insider Last week, Strauss-Kahn’s […]

The FBI has arrested a man claimed to be the owner of online black market Silk Road 2.0. Known online as Defcon, Blake Benthall, 26, was arrested by officers in San Francisco, California on 5 […]

The trafficking of ancient artefacts looted from Iraq and Syria earns ISIS millions of dollars every month. And with such a significant economic incentive, the devastation of the world’s cultural heritage has become ubiquitous. Is […]

The price of bitcoin has continued to see signs of improvement, with a further 2% rise in value over the last 24 hours. Most other major cryptocurrencies have also seen positive market movement, albeit marginal. […]