Casualties From Swiss Shock Spread From New York to New Zealand | David Evans and Kevin Buckland

http://www.merrilledge.com/Jan. 16, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- Losses mounted from the Swiss currency shock as the largest U.S. retail foreign-exchange brokerage said client debts threatened its compliance ...

Here's What the Swiss Central Bank Just Did and Why It's Such a Shocker | Joe Weisenthal

http://www.forexbrokerz.com/Jan. 15, 2015 (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The Swiss National Bank shocked the world Thursday when it announced it would remove the cap it had in place to prevent the Swiss ...

Peculiarities of Russian National Character | Dimitry Orlov

Ancient Slavic god Zimnik: a squat old man, long hair the color of snow, wears a white coat, always barefoot. Carries an iron staff, one swing with which instantly freezes everything solid. Can summo ...

War Begets War: It’s Not about Islam; It Never Was | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 13, 2015 It is still not about Islam, even if the media and militants attacking western targets say so. Actually, it never was. But it was important ...

Oil Collapse of 1986 Shows Rebound Could Be Years Away | Mark Shenk

Credit: BloombergJan. 13, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- The last time excess supply caused a plunge in oil, it took almost five years for prices to recover. The CHART OF THE DAY shows how West Texas Intermedia ...

Why the F-35 is a sitting duck for the Flankers | Rakesh Krishnan Simha

Su-35. Source: Sukhoi.org Oct. 12, 2014 (Russia & India Report) -- Outgunned by the Su-30 family of aircraft and suffering critical design flaws, the American F-35 is staring down the barrel of obsol ...

FULL TEXT: The Double Helix: China-Russia | Larchmonter 445

opendemocracy.net Vineyard of the Saker WHITE PAPER 2014: Russia-China Resistance The Double Helix: China-Russia —Larchmonter 445 Dec. 23, 2015 Vladimir Putin said it clearly: “Russia and China will ...

New Snowden Docs Reveal Wider Net of NATO 'Kill List' Targets | Andrea Germanos

Reporting by Der Spiegel shows low-level suspected Taliban, drug traffickers targeted for killing Apache helicopters flying in Afghanistan in 2011. (Photo: DVIDSHUB/flickr/cc) Dec. 29, 2014 (Common D ...

China's Russia bailout is an ominous sign for the future | William Pesek

William PesekDec. 25, 2014 -- TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Thanks to China, Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund, Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank and Takehiko Nakao of the Asian Development Ba ...

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers | David Sirota

U.S. military headquarters, the Pentagon, aerial view Sept. 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed Dec. 22, 2014 (IBT) -- American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, a ...

Bail-In and the Financial Stability Board: The Global Bankers’ Coup | Ellen Brown

(Photo: Philipp/cc/flickr) Dec. 13, 2014 (Common Dreams) -- On Dec. 11, 2014, the US House passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiari ...