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No Bear Market In Gold. “Bullish Sentiment” in the Market for Physical Gold Bullion By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 20 2013

You know that gold bear market that the financial press keeps touting? The one George Soros keeps proclaiming? Well, it is not there. The gold bear market is disinformation that is helping elites acquire the gold.

Certainly, Soros himself doesn’t …

CIA Troublemaking in Caucasus By Wayne Madsen, May 20 2013

It is clear that Russia’s arrest and expulsion of two CIA agents who were trying to recruit members of the Russian intelligence service fighting against Salafist separatists in the Caucasus is part of a Russian mopping-up operation directed at the

Reagan Backed Ex-Dictator Jorge Videla and Argentina’s Dirty War By Robert Parry, May 20 2013

The 87-year-old ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla died Friday in prison where he was serving sentences for grotesque human rights crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. But one of Videla’s key backers, the late President Ronald Reagan, continues to be honored

Covert Israeli Forces Inside Syria Within Rebel Ranks? Israeli Military Vehicle Seized: Report By Global Research News, May 20 2013

Media sources confirm the seizure of an Israeli military vehicle in Al Qseir inside Syrian territory.

The vehicle’s licence plate corresponds to that of the Israeli military with a black background and the letter Tsade (צ) (see image below)

Al …

US Supreme Court Rules for Agribusiness Giant Monsanto, Destruction of the Family Farm By World Socialist Web Site, May 20 2013

By Eric London

A series of pro-business decisions announced by the US Supreme Court in recent weeks marks a continuation of the judicial branch’s steady movement to the right. The rulings further enshrine the power of corporate behemoths to exploit …

European Union Directly Funds Al Qaeda Looting of Syrian oil By Johannes Stern, May 20 2013

According to a report yesterday in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the European Union (EU) is directly funding US-backed Sunni Islamist terrorist groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. These groups are looting oil in parts of eastern Syria that they control

Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture By Stephen Lendman, May 20 2013

Guantanamo detention constitutes torture, abuse and ill-treatment. Long-term detention compounds it.

Force-feeding increases unconscionable pain and suffering. Doing so violates core rule of law principles.

Around 130 of 166 Guantanamo detainees refuse food. They’re hunger striking for justice. They …

Drone Proliferation in Europe: Domestic Surveillance and Unmanned Warfare By Chris Cole, May 20 2013

European countries are piling more pressure on the US to allow them to buy armed Predator and Reaper drones.  As we have previously reported Germany wants to buy armed Reaper drones from the US and France too has reported this

Medical Marijuana: Big Pharma’s Campaign to Eliminate State-Sanctioned Cannabis Competitors? By Clarence Walker, May 20 2013

As Colorado, California and Washington including 16 other states enjoy freedom under state law to operate legal medical marijuana-cannabis businesses the owners are often faced with arrests and constant harrasment by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Though some states have legalized …

Is EVERY Market Rigged? By Washington's Blog, May 20 2013

European Union Launches Investigation Into Manipulation of Oil Prices Since 2002

CNN reports:

The European Commission raided the offices of Shell, BP and Norway’s Statoil this week as part of an investigation into suspected attempts to manipulate global oil

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Routinely Spies upon and Disrupts “Occupy” Protests By Dylan Murphy, May 19 2013

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been engaged in massive surveillance of peaceful protesters which undermines protections enshrined in the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Two recent studies raise serious questions about the way the DHS has reacted to Occupy …

Globalization Watch: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) By Michael Welch, Stuart Trew, Kristen Beifus, and Nile Bowie, May 19 2013

Through this agreement, the Obama Administration is seeking to boost U.S. economic growth and support the creation and retention of high-quality American jobs by increasing exports in a region that includes some of the world’s most robust economies and

The War on Mali: An Illustration of Fragmented Totality By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, May 19 2013

This week on Heart of Africa, Kudakwashe hosts renowned award winning author, global geopolitical analyst and sociologist, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, in a discussion on the “War on Mali – The Illustration Of Fragmented Totality”.

Mahdi introduces the crucial concept he

Threat to the Hegemony of the US Dollar? Rigged Gold Bullion Market By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 19 2013

Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE).

Quantitative Easing is the term given

Bashar al-Assad Interview: Israel Supports Al Qaeda Terrorists By Global Research News, May 19 2013

Bashar al-Assad: “I don’t give up. People say who stays and who should go, not U.S.”

 Bashar al-Assad interview with Argentine newspaper Clarin: “I don’t give up. People say who stays and who should go, not U.S.”

President al-Assad: Basis

Israel Mulling Plot to Assassinate Syrian President Bashar Al Assad By Global Research News, May 19 2013

The Israeli regime’s security bodies are working on a plot to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by the help of terrorist groups and armed rebels in the country after Damascus showed strength and months of resistance against the terrorist attacks

Soaring Markets, Troubled Economies. Towards a Global Financial Downfall? By Stephen Lendman, May 19 2013

Central banks run today’s world.  Money printing madness controls everything. Liquidity-driven markets reflect the power of bankers to do it.

They’re more powerful than standing armies. They can levitate markets. They can enrich themselves at the same time.

They can

Syrian Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on US Sponsored Terrorists By Global Research News, May 19 2013

Reports from Syria suggest that Syrian forces have inflicted heavy losses on the US sponsored Al Nusra mercenary force and its affiliated formations have inflicted heavy losses.

Press reports confirm that the rebel stronghold  of Al Qusayr on the Northern …

Europe’s “Little Guantanamo”: Why The U.S. Wants Serbia To Give Up Kosovo By Rick Rozoff and John Robles, May 18 2013

The U.S. military base in Kosovo was constructed in 1999 without consulting with the government of Serbia and is the largest U.S. military base built outside of the U.S. since the Vietnam War. The site was apparently used for extraordinary

America’s “Long War”: Pentagon tells US Senate Wars will Continue for Decades By Alex Lantier, May 18 2013

Testifying before the US Senate Committee on Armed Services on Thursday, Pentagon officials claimed that “war on terror” legislation gives them sweeping powers to wage war anywhere in the world, including inside the United States, without Congressional authorization.

Assistant Defense …

Continued Cover-up of Contacts of Boston Bombing Suspects with FBI and US Intelligence By Barry Grey, May 18 2013

In testimony before the US Senate Thursday, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller continued the official cover-up of the advance warnings and extensive contacts between the FBI and other intelligence and security agencies and the suspects in the April …

Gloves Off: Russia Names CIA Station Chief in Moscow By Zero Hedge, May 18 2013

Earlier this week, the CIA’s Russian outpost was deeply humiliated when (in a calculated move following accusations that the US had not gotten appropriate Russian information on the two Boston bombers, and following the visit of John Kerry whose primary …

G20 Governments All Agreed To Cyprus-Style Theft Of Bank Deposits … In 2010 By Colin McKay, May 18 2013

Referencing official source documents from both the G20, and the internationalist ‘Financial Stability Board’, clearly show the entire G20 agreed to implement the FSB-mandated new approach to managing “too big to fail” banks at the Seoul 2010 meeting of the

Syria : One Year After the Houla Massacre. New Report on Official vs. Real Truth By Adam Larson, May 18 2013