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World Banking Regulators Revise Liquidity Rules for Banks

World Banking Regulators Revise Liquidity Rules for Banks

January 6, 2013 (TSR) - The Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, met today to consider the Basel…

Sexual assault reports jump to 23% at U.S. military academies, Pentagon finds

Sexual assault reports jump to 23% at U.S. military academies, Pentagon finds

December 21, 2012 (TSR) - The number of sexual assaults reported on the campuses of the nation’s military academies increased by nearly a quarter over the 2010-2011 academic year, according…

Open Declaration of War to Russia, China and World? US Recognizes Syrian Opposition Body

Open Declaration of War to Russia, China and World? US Recognizes Syrian Opposition Body

December 12, 2012 (TSR) - US President Barack Obama has recognized the main Syrian opposition group as “the legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. This brings the US in line…

Doha Protocol: Road Map Drawn Up by Syrian Traitors to Serve Imperialists, Gulf Monarchies

Doha Protocol: Road Map Drawn Up by Syrian Traitors to Serve Imperialists, Gulf Monarchies

by Noureddine Merdaci, The Sham Times, TruthOut December 12, 2012 (TSR) - It will perhaps take months, if not years, before we will be able to reconstruct the process by…

Deputy PM: Iraq to cut ties with America and other foreign oil firms over Kurdish deals

Deputy PM: Iraq to cut ties with America and other foreign oil firms over Kurdish deals

August 13, 2012 (TSR) - Iraqi deputy prime minister Hussein al-Shahristani said late Sunday that Baghdad was determined to cut ties with ExxonMobil and any other foreign oil company if they…

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, The Persistent: Audit the Fed won U.S. House; Nevada Democrat Senator vows to kill it

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, The Persistent: Audit the Fed won U.S. House; Nevada Democrat Senator vows to kill it

July 25, 2012 (TSR) - After a long and lonely journey, U.S. Congressman Ron Paul has indeed something to be excited about when he posted a photo on his Facebook page. After years of uphill battle, Paul’s…

“Democracy” in Action: NSA Has Ongoing Secret ‘Spy On Every American’ Deal with White House Since 9/11

“Democracy” in Action: NSA Has Ongoing Secret ‘Spy On Every American’ Deal with White House Since 9/11

July 25, 2012 (TSR) - The TSA, DHS and countless other security agencies have been established to keep America safe from terrorist attacks in post-9/11 America. How far beyond that does…

Protecting Russia from U.S. “Covert” Subversions: Putin Signs “Foreign Agents” Bill to Regulate Political NGOs into Federal Law

Protecting Russia from U.S. “Covert” Subversions: Putin Signs “Foreign Agents” Bill to Regulate Political NGOs into Federal Law

July 23, 2012 (TSR) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a legislative bill into Russian federal law which will regulate the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive funding…

Netanyahu’s Likud Party Calls Africans as “Cancer”: New Israeli bill to bar deported migrants’ appeal until after expulsion

Netanyahu’s Likud Party Calls Africans as “Cancer”: New Israeli bill to bar deported migrants’ appeal until after expulsion

July 23, 2012 (TSR) - Israeli Interior Ministry is backing legislation that would keep deported migrants from legally appealing their status until they were already outside the country ‘s borders.…

Barclays and the Limits of Financial Reform

Barclays and the Limits of Financial Reform

by Alexander Cockburn, Irish-American Journalist, Author and Co-Founding Co-Editor of Counterpunch This is Alexander Cockburn’s last commentary published in The Nation (July 11, 2012) before he transformed and journeyed onto…

Ron Paul’s ‘audit the Fed’ bill coming up on Tuesday

Ron Paul’s ‘audit the Fed’ bill coming up on Tuesday

July 21, 2012 (TSR) - Ron Paul’s bill before Congress to audit the U.S. Fed is due to come up on Tuesday and is expected to pass, but seen as…

Obama has ZERO grounds to claim credit

Obama has ZERO grounds to claim credit

by Richard Larsen, AP award winning columnist and President of Larsen Financial July 21, 2012 (TSR) - I recall vividly an experience growing up on a farm years ago when I claimed…

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