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By Blake Ellis Are you prepared to live on $190 a month when you retire? For most Americans in their 50s, that’s all the personal

Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable. ~ US

Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., “downsizing” for layoffs), making

By Joel Salatin American farmer Joel Salatin, the star of the documentary Food Inc, has become a “pin up boy” for the growing food “re-localisation”

By Luke Harding Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for

I hope they catch that WikiLeaks guy. I hope they catch him and prosecute him  for all its worth. I hope they, legally speaking, throttle

By Paul Brodsky In practical terms, we can’t lower rates below zero and we can’t raise them. What about debt-focused quantitative easing? That won’t work

Long Slide Into The Red By Bruce Krasting The full year results for the SS Trust Fund can now be estimated fairly accurately from preliminary

By Caroline Davies and Sam Jones WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was remanded in custody today after appearing in court on an extradition warrant. The 39-year-old

This Morning Dollar Cross Rates: – – –Swiss Franc 1.02270 – –Canadian Dollar 1.00368 – –Australian Dollar 1.00598