Law
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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? | Ellen Brown
Bank runs, bail-ins and systemic risk Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Feb. 25, 3023 Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your Money” and “Banks Can STEAL Your Money?! Here’s How!” The reference is to “bail-ins:” the provision under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act allowing Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs, basically ...
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Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way | Ellen Brown
Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Jan. 20, 2023 On Friday, Jan. 13, Treasury SecretaryJanet Yellen wrote to C ...
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Analysis: Silicon Valley Bank's Fall Widens Systemic Cracks As Cheap Money Vanishes | David Randall And Davide Barbuscia
NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - Cracks are appearing in the global financial system as the decade-long era of cheap money ends, with some investors worrying the shock collapse of Silicon Valley Bank s ...
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Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy?: Three Possible Answers | Ramzy Baroud
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. (Photo: UNRWA) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 29, 2021 At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Ban ...
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WATCH: Republican National Committee Abandons America
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The Revolt of the Imagination, Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome | John Michael Greer
Feb. 2, 2022 (EcoSophia.net) --Maybe it’s true that life really does imitate literature. Over the last week or so, certainly, a detail from one of my favorite works of imaginative fiction played out ...
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The Combating Islamophobia Act: On Hate Crimes and ‘Irrational Fears’| Ramzy Baroud
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Photo: via Facebook) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2021 The result of a vote, on Dec. 14, in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the combating of Islamophob ...
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Why the Palestinian Voice Should Take Center Stage | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian activists Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd. (Photo: via Twitter) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2021 At a recent New York event, the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Wil ...
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“Harnessing social media to help solve and predict crime” — Mickey Z.
; Still image from the 2002 film, Minority Report Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 19, 2021 On January 30, 2020, The Brennan Center for Justice sent a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department ...
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From Pegasus to Blue Wolf: How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment in Palestine Became Global | Ramzy Baroud
An Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank. (Photo: File) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 17, 2021 The revelation, a few years ago, that the U.S. National Security Agency has been conducti ...
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Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine | Ramzy Baroud
American business magnate Bill Gates (L) with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Photo: video grab) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2021 Those who are not familiar with how Israel, pa ...
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