January 2014

AFP PODCAST Mark Farner, the founder of the legendary rock ‘n roll band Grand Funk Railroad, shares his thoughts on the band’s early success, the origins of the 1970 hit “I’m Your Captain (Closer to […]

• Irish bankers face criminal charges; kleptocrats caught joking about own misdeeds By Ronald L. Ray The Icelandic way of dealing with financial fraud committed by bank executives is spreading to other countries of Europe, […]

• Public records search reveals Bank of America created spy teams to snoop on Americans By Keith Johnson Bank of America (BOA), the notorious bailout recipient at the heart of multiple financial scandals, has once […]

• U.S. policy expert says Mrs. Clinton has been on the wrong side of war issue for last 20 years By Victor Thorn As Hillary Clinton was close to securing the Democratic presidential nomination in […]

• U.S.-Israeli “special relationship” symposium planned By John Friend A Washington, D.C.-based non-profit specializing in American-Mideast foreign policy has announced what many consider to be a long overdue conference to critically address the so-called “special […]

• American nationalists look to purge ‘crony capitalism’ By Michael Collins Piper The United States is going the way of Russia—but not in the way conservatives would have you think. While conservatives are busy fighting […]

AFP AUDIO INTERVIEW To find out why prices at the pump skyrocketed in the two weeks leading up to the heavily-traveled Thanksgiving holiday week, although oil prices declined and stagnated for the prior three months, […]

• Edgar Bronfman—one of the world’s most powerful Zionists—finally dies By Michael Collins Piper The patriarch of a crime syndicate-connected empire that has operated in the sphere of the Rothschild dynasty is dead. On December […]

• Several states working to make financial info gathered by NSA, banks inadmissible By Ronald L. Ray Canadian David Hague works in the dizzying financial world by day and satirizes its frauds and foibles during […]

• Journalists arrested for photographing police in action win series of big court cases • Judge rules advances in technology can make us all impromptu citizen journalists By Keith Johnson Keeping cops honest is a […]

• Alternative currency makers defend motives at hearing By Mark Anderson Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) recently held a first-ever congressional hearing on virtual currencies. The mid-November hearing, “Beyond […]

• States rejecting indefinite detentions By Mark Anderson On December 26, Michigan became the fourth state to sign into law a bill that formally tells Washington that Michigan will not cooperate with the federal government […]

By Pete Papaherakles “White privilege” is a term heard often lately, as an underhanded accusation against whites. It refers to a theoretical set of privileges that whites benefit from beyond those experienced by blacks and […]

By Richard Walker A war with China is a real possibility. All it might take is the kind of near collision between United States and Chinese naval vessels that happened recently in the East China […]

By Bill White Zimbabwe, the nation formerly known as Rhodesia, is broke. Inflation is rampant, there are no jobs and the former breadbasket of Africa requires food aid to prevent starvation. Yet somehow its ruler, […]