The Confiscation Scheme Planned for U.S. and U.K. Depositors

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Mar 28, 2013 Confiscating customer deposits in Cyprus banks was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England, dated Dec. 10, 2012, shows these plans have been long in the making. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Saturn Eating Cyprus

Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com Mar 24, 2013 Dig deeper

Cyprus Bailout

Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands Mar 23, 2013 Dig deeper

A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly Owned Banks? The Battle of Cyprus

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Mar 22, 2013 For now, the government of Cyprus has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed levy on bank deposits as a condition for a European bailout. But if technocrat bankers can push through their confiscation scheme, precedent will be established for doing it elsewhere when bank bailouts become prohibitive for governments. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Sinking Cyprus

Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia Mar 21, 2013 Dig deeper

Cyprus Savings

Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands Mar 19, 2013 Dig deeper