Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and the "Good Discussion" They're Still Having

Emerging from the Rockefeller Foundation in the late 1970s, the Group of Thirty was designed as a think tank, lobby/industry group and, ultimately, a consensus-building institution for the global elites – to ensure that they stayed that way.

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Ellen Brown: The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland

After five years of belt-tightening, the Irish people are realizing that their assets are paying for the mistakes of the financial sector.

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The Euro Crisis: Debtors’ Prison

The euro zone is blighted by private debt even more than by government debt.

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Global Power Project: Central Bankers and the Institute of International Finance, Part 3

The relationship between the powerfully connected Institute of International Finance and global central bankers goes well beyond the timid attempts at “regulation” on the part of global banks, as this third segment in the IFF series reveals.

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Global Power Project: Connecting Josef Ackermann, the Institute of International Finance and the Euro Debt Crisis

When the European debt crisis hit headlines in 2010, the Institute of International Finance was again on the scene and playing a major part, like it did during the 1980s debt crisis. At the center this time was the CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann.

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Global Unrest Defines a Fearless Summer of Protest

The summer of 2013 has seen some of the largest, most vocal mass protests around the world since 2011, as people people exercised power through occupations, strikes and blockades from Frankfurt to Istanbul, and Rio to Sanford, Florida.

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Tens of Thousands of Greeks Retake the Streets In General Strike Over Job Cuts

Demonstrators poured into Athens' central Syntagma Square on Tuesday as unions, protesting controversial plans to slash 25,000 public sector jobs, brought the country to a standstill in a fourth general strike this year.

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Act Before the Bail-In: Now Is the Moment to Seize Public Banking

As an individual or as a public official, if you have money in one of the big banks, you have essentially given your money to that gambler and now you are a creditor to the gambler.

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Winner Takes All: The Super-Priority Status of Derivatives

Derivatives have “super-priority” status in bankruptcy, and Dodd Frank precludes further taxpayer bailouts. In a big derivatives bust, there may be no collateral left for the creditors who are next in line.

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From Detroit to Cyprus, Banksters in Search of Prey

Either we liquidate the banksters or Wall Street will liquidate us.

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