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Obama, Hiroshima, and the Politics of War Crimes

When it comes to American war crimes, there are no shortage of examples to choose from. For every well-known My Lai massacre there are a thousand lesser-known No Gun Ri massacres. For every Abu Ghraib that enters the lexicon there's a thousand Azizabads that barely...

Serial Child Molester Denny Hastert Gets His Wrist Slap

Earlier this week Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House and second in line to the presidency, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. In his sentencing Judge Thomas Durkin spoke the plain truth: "The defendant is a serial child molester." All of this may...

The (Second) Most Important Bank You’ve Never Heard Of

What is the most important bank the public has never heard of? My fine audience excepted, not one in a hundred people could name the Bank for International Settlements as the culprit, and fewer still could describe the BIS' role as "the apex of the system" of world...

The Entire Global Economy Now Hinges on One Thing

by James Corbett TheInternationalForecaster.com March 29, 2016 As I write these words we are now only hours away from The Most Important Event Ever to Happen in the History of the Global Economy. Investors are bracing themselves. Markets are anticipating. Journalists...

China’s Trillion Dollar Gamble: The New Silk Road

China's "One Belt, One Road" plan is to build a vast transportation infrastructure connecting the "middle kingdom" to destinations all throughout Central and South Asia, Eurasia, and even Europe. The plan is as ambitious as it is comprehensive; consisting of a "Silk...

4 Ways The Crime Lab Can Frame You

Last week we took a look at five mind-boggling new technologies that the government is converting (or is going to convert) into tools for spying on you. But as I noted at the end of that article, we shouldn't be so quick to accept reports about these new technologies...