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…
Finance
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…
The New Financial Paradigm: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, Precious Metals and Fiat
Podcast (altered-boy-podcast): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSFor the next addition of Altered Boy Podcast, Tim articulates the new paradigm in sociocultural finance through emerging crypto-currencies like Bitcoin. With Bitcoin as the conversation’s jumping-off point, the technological advances of crypto-currencies are discussed throughout the full spectrum of modern finance; and Read More…
European Union Sells Arms to Egypt in Spite of Embargo
Despite the fact that the European Union agreed to an embargo against selling weapons to Egypt, nearly half the countries in the union disregarded the embargo and provided Egypt with arms. Al Jazeera reports that according to Amnesty International, these countries are now at risk for being seen as accessories to the killing, torture, and Read More…






