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**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By The Transnational Institute The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in

Photo Credit: Daein Ballard/Wikipedia By Wikipedia Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the theoretical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere,

By Alfred McCoy For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post,

By Gloria Goodale As California faces the worst drought in its 163-year history with no hint of relief in sight, some scientists are calling the

By Tenth Amendment Center The state-level effort to turn off water and electricity to the National Security Agency (NSA) got a major boost today as

By Sarah N. Lynch Chinese units of the global “Big Four” accounting firms should be suspended from auditing U.S.-listed companies for six months, a judge

By Catherine Austin Fitts The latest round of bank profit announcements is worth contemplating, as is the chart above which shows the stock history of

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Katie Peek The U.S. is still the only country that’s sent people to the moon, but more nations are steadily joining us in space.