Once hailed as a solution to poverty, microfinance lenders are criticised for profiting from exploitative usury.

The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist Mohammed Yunus as…

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Japan on Friday raised the severity rating of its nuclear disaster from level 4 to 5 on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents as firefighters continued with the…

By Beth Ford Roth

The Department of Defense is gearing up to help American military families evacuate from the island where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is situated, according to Reuters. Th…

By Justin McCurry

Elite squad of technicians face fire, radiation and exhaustion in cramped and potentially lethal conditions to cool reactors.

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Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker will be featured in a tribute to former President George H. W. Bush. The 41st President of the United States is being honored for his …

By Sarah Parsons

Like most parents, Michigan resident Rachael Hilliker cares very much about the kinds of foods her kids eat. Hilliker has a three-year-old daughter, Claire, and her fiance is the f…

China has overtaken the UK as a global art market for the first time, a report suggests.

The UK was knocked from second spot to third place as a global market for antiques and arts, according to Th…

Nasa fears ‘Kessler Syndrome’, where there is too much space junk for it to be safe to fly out, leaving us trapped on Earth.

By Daniel Bates

Nasa is considering using lasers to deflect space j…

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According to Gasparino, Lloyd Blankfein’s friends say he’s on the way out.

They say this is Blankfein’s last year at Goldman Sachs, according to Charlie.

What does Goldman sa…

By Meredith Lepore

It’s no wonder Goldman Sachs is having trouble trying to sell its mortgage servicing unit, Litton Loan.

The allegations against the unit are absolutely horrific– from not ret…

The Japanese yen has risen against the US dollar hitting the highest level since the end of the Second World War.

The yen climbed as high as 76.25 against the US dollar in US trading on Wednesday. …

By Gregory White

Today’s was a wild day for markets. Pretty much every dramatic movement in the Dow can be traced back to one source: The crisis in Fukushima.
Here’s a quick rundown:
• 11:01 AM ET:…

By Nachum Kaplan and Denny Thomas

Foreign bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling for commercial and charter flights out of the country and into other major cities i…

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Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), the world’s largest carmaker, may lose output of at least 40,000 vehicles after Japan’s strongest earthqu…

By Barry Brook

Along with reliable sources such as the IAEA and WNN updates, there is an incredible amount of misinformation and hyperbole flying around the internet and media right now about the F…

By Lily Nonomiya and Mayumi Otsuma

The Bank of Japan began pouring cash into the banking system after the nation’s most powerful earthquake on record, while later today it may keep its asset- pur…

By Gabriele Steinhauser,

After harrowing late-night negotiations, the leaders of the 17-country eurozone thrashed out a strategy on how to deal with the debt crisis that has crippled the currency u…

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One of the things that has perplexed me about the current chaos is how did so many Republicans become so bizarrely crazy so fast? The closest example that comes to mind is the McCarthy…

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Update 3 p.m.: A call to M&I’s Capitol Square branch confirms the bank is closed for the rest of the day.
When the firefighters arrived at the Capitol this morning they started…

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A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan’s eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away boats, cars and homes w…

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Fountain House Roof Garden, New York

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Maybe the citize…

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Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style

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California regulators will ask Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to set up a process so its customers can opt out of SmartMeters if they have concerns about the devices’ potential health effects.

Cali…

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Things are move quickly with citizen/legislative actions regarding SmartGrids/Meters: A total of 32 California towns and counting now have either legal ordinances or resolutions ba…

By Amanda Verzello

Utah might be one step closer to its own gold standard after the Senate approved a bill Thursday that would require the state to recognize gold and silver coins as legal tender.
…

March 8, 2011

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A Greenpeace statement on today’s vote on zero tolerance for GM contamination in animal feed will be sent once the vote has taken place.

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A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday he was ready to die “a martyr” in Libya, vowing to crush a growing revolt which has seen eastern regions break free of his 41-year rule and brou…

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The pace of consumer price increases in the U.S. is quickening after being dormant for months. But a tug of war between the prices of goods and the prices of ser…

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Someone in Egypt has been paying attention to what’s happening in Madison and wanted to send a message of solidarity from across the globe — so they ordered a pizza.

It migh…

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Residential real-estate prices dropped in the 12 months to December by the most in a year, a sign the U.S. housing market is struggling even as the rest of the economy recovers.

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Former Wall Street-Washington insider Catherine Austin Fitts offers insights into the financial coup d’etat.

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Budget fight wages on as nearly 70,000 show up for peaceful rally in Madison

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Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal in a move that puts the country’s new military regime in a prickly position with its Israeli nei…

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in an effort to clamp down on websites that host and advertise child pornography, inadvertently shut down more than 84,000 innocent websites …

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Stacy Summary: Max interviews Catherine Austin Fitts. They talk revolution, Ben Bernanke and the US dollar being a unit of war.

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