By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration, says, “The Israel/Iran conflict is not about nukes, but water!”  Dr. Roberts says, “Israel wants to get rid of Iran as supplier to Hezbollah . . . . So they can overrun Southern Lebanon,” because that’s where the water is.  So, could Israel attack Iran before the November Presidential Election?  (more…)

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There were lots of fireworks at the United Nations this week.  Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was drawing a red line of his own on a crude picture of a bomb.  Don’t laugh, because he was really talking to the U.S. audience in illustrating his point that Iran is getting close to building a nuclear bomb.  It was simple but effective.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

We have long been told that gold is a commodity–that it is no different than a bushel of corn or a barrel of oil.  In many newspapers, it is listed under the commodity section.   With the advent of the Federal Reserve’s recent announcement of “unlimited” Quantitative Easing (QE) or money printing, that has changed.  The view of gold as a commodity has circled back to what banker JP Morgan proclaimed to Congress in 1913, “Gold is money and nothing else.”   Many folks in the blogosphere have long agreed with the original JP Morgan.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Top trends forecaster Gerald Celente says, “The first great war of the 21^st century has begun, and people are afraid to call it what it is.”  Celente says the extreme violence in in the Middle East and North Africa is Not because of a movie that pokes fun at Islam.  It’s because of decades of bad U.S. foreign policy.  Celente calls people like Rudolph Giuliani a (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

The Middle East and North Africa are on fire.  The latest blow-up happened in Pakistan where the U.S. Embassy was attacked by protestors.  There have been attacks and protests on U.S. interests in Middle East countries such as Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan and many others.  The Obama Administration says it is all because of some anti-Muslim movie, but many think it is way more about our foreign policy.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Money manager Peter Schiff says, “The stage has been set for a currency crisis and a sovereign debt crisis, and they’re going to come relatively soon.”  Schiff says the latest round of “unlimited” money printing by the Fed has only “postponed the collapse.”  Schiff, who recently wrote a book called “The Real Crash,” thinks, “The longer we wait, the worse it’s going to be.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

You may not have heard much about Gary Johnson from the mainstream media, but he’s running for President this year on the Libertarian ticket.  Johnson has real experience as a former Governor of New Mexico.  He’s not afraid to give it to the people straight.  (more…)

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Jeff Berwick of Dollarvigilante.com says, “We’re on 0% interest rates . . . and quantitative easing (money printing) until the system dies.”   Berwick is predicting “chaos” when it all comes down.  He doesn’t know how exactly it will all shake out because, “We’ve never had a global system like this die before.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

I just want to focus on two stories today: the Federal Reserve’s latest round of money printing and the Middle East.  Let’s start with the Fed’s announcement.  It will print money and spend it buying $40 billion a month in sour debt.  It says it is to keep interest rates low and to spur employment, but it’s much more about a continued bailout of the big banks.  (more…)

By Greg hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

You want to really know what’s going on in the EU?  Look no further than MEP Nigel Farage and his rant on the floor of the EU Parliament yesterday.  The German High Court OK’d the unlimited money printing and bond buying of the European Central Bank (ECB) and that is (in part) why gold and silver prices are going much higher in the years to come.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

The Federal Reserve is talking about “unlimited QE,” or money printing, to boost employment.  Economist John Williams says, “That’s absolutely nonsense.  The Fed is just propping up the banks.”  Williams says, “You’re likely going to see a dollar sell-off . . . That should evolve into hyperinflation.”   Williams, “Doesn’t see the current system holding together without hyperinflation beyond 2014.”  He contends the real annual deficit is “$5 trillion per year” and says, “That’s beyond containment.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

I cannot believe Congressman Ron Paul is completely finished with politics.  I thought he would run third party, of course, he did not.  Could he run when he’s 80 in 2016?  Probably not, but I bet his son, Senator Rand Paul does.  If so, I’ll bet father Paul will help out on the campaign trail.  Dr. Paul is a man if integrity who never sold out the country.  In this day and age that is a rare trait in Congress.  Please enjoy the video below: (more…)

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Greg Mannarino says, “A new monetary system is already in the works.”  He says central banks will continue to print money to keep an insolvent system afloat.  Mannarino says it will be on “. . . an epic scale. . . .We’re going to see inflation that people are not going to believe.”  He thinks many “too big to fail banks” will fail, but not all will go under.  Mannarino says, “I believe there is going to be a consolidation of power just like there was after the crash of 2008.”   (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

It looks like a European financial meltdown has been pushed back.  The head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, announced a massive money printing bond buying program to keep countries like Spain and Italy from financial ruin.  One Wall Street analyst called the move “Classic Banana Republic.”  The news that is not being reported is this ECB action is not a done deal.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Catherine Austin Fitts calls what happened to the U.S since the market meltdown of 2008 a “fiscal coup d’état.”  Fitts should know because she is a former Wall Street insider who has managed investments worth $300 billion.  She is also a government insider.  Catherine Austin Fitts was an Assistant Secretary for HUD in the first Bush Administration more than 20 years ago.  She says our leaders are “. . . doing a number of things that are going to depopulate or bankrupt the rest of us.”  (more…)