Outrage – that’s what members of Congress are voicing at the bankers hauled before them to account for what happened with billions of bailout dollars. But there should be just as much outrage over a lack of oversight in Washington, says one who made a fortune on Wall Street, served in the Senate and now [...]

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I’m still troubled by September 11, 2001. Not merely the terrifying events of the attacks that day, but the fact that it still hasn’t been fully explained. It could be and it should be. The Bush administration never came clean with “what really happened” – but the Obama administration needs to set history straight on [...]

Patrick Leahy has a point when he urges President Obama to open investigations about the Bush administration. However, he’s not pointing at the issue that we need to start with. Namely, September 11th. What really happened? More than a few people know – and I am not alone in calling for those who know to [...]

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In December, reports surfaced that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushed his Wall Street bailout package by suggesting that, without it, civil unrest in the United States might grow so dangerous that martial law would have to be declared. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned of the same risk of riots, [...]

Considering that a lot of bills have been put forward by Congress in the last 70 years, this is really saying something. Dr. Robert Barro is one of the most influential economists in the world.

Norway’s former Defense and Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg has proposed a 13-point plan for military and civilian cooperation between the five Nordic countries. One of the Nordic region’s grey eminences, former Norwegian Defence and Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, has presented his report on potential Nordic cooperation in foreign and security policy, including proposals for a [...]

The global economic crisis could trigger political unrest equal to that seen during the 1930s, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in a German newspaper interview Saturday. L

In China, millions of migrant workers have returned home earlier than usual for Chinese New Year because factories and businesses are shutting down. Indeed, the government admitted last Monday that 20 million out of 130 million migrant workers who have formed the linchpin of the nation