Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next? Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The Syrian crisis and the confluence of clashing interests there was entirely predictable. In fact, I wrote an article on my former website in 2010 outlining the potential for Syria as a high value catalyst for global conflict titled “Will Globalists Trigger Yet …

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Commodity Trading Giants Unleash Liquidity Scramble, Issue Record Amounts Of Secured Debt Earlier today, in its latest attempt to restore confidence in its brand and business model after suffering a historic stock price collapse, Glencore – whose CDS recently blew out to a level implying a 50% probability of default – released a 4 page …

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World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Forced To Begin Liquidating Assets One of the biggest stories of this summer, as previewed originally here in November of 2014, has been the dramatic shift in the direction of capital flow from toward emerging markets (and China), to away from emerging markets (and China). The reason for this …

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Lawrence Wilkerson: "The American 'Empire' Is In Deep, Deep Trouble" Former US army colonel and Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson unleashed a most prescient speech on the demise of the United States Empire. As Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith notes, Wilkerson describes the path of empires in decline and shows how the US …

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The Media-Opoly: Cancelled, From Saturday Night, It's Conspiracy Theory Rock! A day after we ran “Meet Your “Independent” Media, America“, in which we showed how prime time entertainment like 60 Minutes is strategically and voluntarily “planted” with propaganda trolls and “concerns” thus crushing any “unbiased” credibility mainstream US media may have, we dug into the …

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A Mosaic Of Facts – Media Weapons Of Mass Delusion Can you tell truth from lies in mass media? RT’s Miguel Francis-Santiago delves deep to try to understand the intricacies of information war. He meets media experts and puts together the Mosaic of Facts, showing how public opinion is manipulated, not just over the Ukrainian …

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If You Work Here, Quit Before You Are Fired: The 20 Largest US Layoff Announcements Of 2015 Earlier today, in the latest laughable attempt to boost confidence in a clearly recessionary economy, the BLS reported that a paltry 277,000 Americans had sought unemployment benefits. Why laughable? Because at the very same time, Challenger Gray which …

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Syria: “Not a Proxy War. It’s One Step Closer” Russia started bombing jihadi bases in Syria today. Given that the the U.S. and its allies are largely responsible for creating ISIS, and that U.S., Turkey and Israel have all been acting as ISIS’ air force – they are not taking too kindly to Russia’s actions. …

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Paul Craig Roberts: Obama Deifies American Hegemony Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and …

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"Minority Report" Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about …

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