American Apparel Preparing Second Bankruptcy Filing In A Year Less than 9 months after emerging from Chapter 11 proceedings, American Apparel is allegedly preparing for another bankruptcy filing after turnaround efforts by the previous plan of reorganization sponsors, including Standard General, Monarch Alternative Capital, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Pentwater Capital, have apparently failed.  While …

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Paul Craig Roberts: "Putin's Nukes Could Wipe Out Entire American East Coast" In Minutes Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, Suffice to say, though children are at play, this is not a game. Those who have been toying with outright war against Russia, and an escalation of the conflict in Syria, are putting the lives …

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Washington's Struggle: Remaining Relevant Submitted by Federico Pieraccini via Strategic-Culture.org, The most important event of the past 70 years is the change in the international order, from a US unipolar domination to a new multipolar reality. The fundamental question lies in understanding how this transition is taking place, its consequences and root causes The transition …

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The Oil-Gas War Over Syria (In 4 Maps) Submitted by Eric Zuesse via Strategic Culture Foundation Turkey’s Anadolu News Agency, though government-run, is providing remarkably clear and reliable diagrammatic descriptions of the current status of the U.S – and – fundamentalist – Sunni, versus Russia – and – Shia – and – NON – fundamentalist …

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NATO Continues To Prepare For War With Russia Submitted by Peter Korzun via Strategic-Culture.org, NATO uses any pretext to accuse Russia of harboring aggressive intentions. It has raised ballyhoo over the recent deployment of Iskander short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles to the Kaliningrad region. Time and time again, the alliance reaffirms its bogus Russia narrative. “We …

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Walls, Going Viral By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday we take time out of our day to laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all it’s glorious …

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BullionStar attends LBMA Conference in Singapore, October 2016 Introduction This year, the well-known annual conference of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) was held in Singapore between Sunday 16 October and Tuesday 18 October at the impressive Shangri-La Hotel. The conference attracts delegates and speakers from across the world of bullion, with representatives from precious metals refiners, mints, …

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Unraveling The Aleppo / Mosul Riddle Submitted by Pepe Escobar via Stratgic-Culture.org, There’s no question Baghdad needs to take back Mosul from ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. It could not do it before. In theory, the time is now. The real question is the conflicting motivations of the large “who’s who” doing it; the Iraqi Army’s 9th Division; the …

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East Vs. West Division Is About The Dollar – Not Nuclear War Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The interesting thing about working in alternative economics is that inevitably you will become the designated buzzkill. You may be presenting the facts on the ground and the reality behind the numbers, but most of what you …

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Why Is Obama Threatening Russia With World War 3 Right Before The Election? Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, It sure seems like an odd time to be provoking a war with Russia.  As I write this, we stand just a little bit more than three weeks away from one of the …

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