‘For every person with more than $30 million, there are over 4800 people living in extreme poverty.’ The wealth gap keeps growing as the world’s richest get richer at the expense of the poor, according to a new study released this week by an alliance of major organizations. The World Wealth Report from Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Read More…
Finance
Big Banks Funding Production of Internationally Banned Weapons
Bank of America and JP Morgan, among 74 of 158 financial institutions, invested in companies producing internationally banned weapons. Despite the international ban on cluster bombs, more than 150 financial institutions have invested $28 billion in companies that produce them, according to a new report released Thursday. Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Read More…
Bilderberg 2016 (Coincidentally Ends as Orlando’s Coverage Begins)
This Monday, the 13th of June, marks the end of the Dresden, Germany hosted annual sociopolitical corporate summit, Bilderberg, for 2016. This year marks a tumultuous discourse of journalists and protesters with German police and sometimes by chance, actual Bilderberg attendants–with Luke Rudkowski even getting a brief public statement by Peter Thiel of his attendance (for Read More…
Is Ethereum The Next Big Thing?
For a majority of the world’s population, cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are still completely unknown terms, let alone ideas that people have any coherent understanding of in regards to how they work and what they mean for the future. For those who have at least heard of the concepts, Bitcoin is often their only reference Read More…
Reshaping Geopolitics: Breaking Down The Current “Free Trade” Deals
For many people still unaware, there are a variety of “free trade” deals being negotiated and worked on between various swaths of countries all over the world. As we have reported on several times at The Last American Vagabond, TPP is one of those under the radar trade deals that is attempting to be passed Read More…
Made In America: How The US Dominates The World Arms Trade
Who says nothing is made in the USA anymore? Certainly not the well-heeled denizens of the State Department’s diplomatic corps. And they should know. That’s because they’re stationed on the front lines of the ongoing battle to preserve Uncle Sam’s dominant market share of the global weapons trade. Luckily for the Military-Industrial Complex, it turns Read More…