Untold Truths

Bloomberg’s Eric Chemi examines the fear of an Ebola outbreak and your chances of contracting the virus in relation to other health threats.

Elite donors of American allies in the Persian Gulf region have poured an immense amount of resources into rebel groups like IS in efforts to advance on three general goals: opposing Iran, its ally Bashar Assad and his government in Syria, and fomenting the Sunni-Shia divides in the region.

The United States government has concluded that a new leaker has been supplying members of the media with classified documents. RT talks to defense analyst Ivan Eland about the most recent U.S. leaks.

Here's an in-depth look at the Real Reason for War in Israel, including why both Russia and the U.S. are involved, and why Gaza is the centre of focus.

Privacy watchdogs are in uproar following revelations the U.S. government may have been behind a recent Facebook experiment. Marina Portnaya reports.

Five of the world's biggest growing economies are fighting back against the Dollar. Here's what happens when nations unite: The BRICS Development Bank

Paul Floyd, a military analyst at Stratfor, discusses the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 with Mark Crumpton and Tom Keene.

British intelligence has a wide diversity of tools for cyber-spying and data manipulation. That's what's been revealed in a document, recently leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Social network accounts are no longer private. Agents can access data, even hidden, and disable the page if they find it suspicious.

How Does the Fed Influence the Stock Market? This week, Ivan Lo talks about how the Fed influences the stock market and how central banks, such as Japan, directly influence stock prices.

The National Security Agency isn't the only American organization upsetting some Germans. The US Federal Reserve holds 45 percent of Germany's gold assets, and a plan to bring much of that back to its homeland is in jeopardy. Efforts to transport or even audit the billions of dollars worth of precious metal held by the US are being impeded by politics and the Fed itself, creating frustration for many of the plans supporters. RT's Peter Oliver reports from Berlin on what is holding up the process.

Here's a look at the gold swap between Goldman Sachs and Ecuador, and why gold is once again moving back into the hands of Western control.

Despite President Obama's January speech limiting the scope of National Security Agency surveillance, a new Washington Post article outlines a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court could turn that notion on its head. The ruling allows the NSA to conduct surveillance on 193 countries around the world. Only four countries in the world are excluded from the ruling: Canada, Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand. RT Correspondent Meghan Lopez walks us through the latest revelations.

A look at why this Bank was seized, the outlook for gold and silver, and why stocks on the TSX and the TSX Venture are set to climb.

It may be legal to buy marijuana in 22 states, but growing pot is still against federal law. And yet, the US government grows some of the purest pot in the country, spending almost a million dollars a year on a contract with the University of Mississippi to grow cannabis and manufacture marijuana cigarettes. The UMiss farm is currently the only source in the US for legal marijuana for researchers, and the government currently gives it away to researchers who get all the right approvals.

Iraq's capital Baghdad may -- for now -- be safe from the militants that overran the northern city of Mosul last week in a lightning fast advance. But after large-scale defections from an Iraqi Army that the U.S. largely built from scratch, Bloomberg's Willem Marx looks into America's spending on other country's militaries, in today's Big Question. Video by: Brian Kartagener

Pollution is rarely big news these days. You're more likely to hear about it in a history lesson on the Industrial Revolution. But many European cities are suffering as air pollution is becoming a serious problem. Bloomberg's Tom Gibson reports.

A look at the pipeline battle between the East and West and how the South Stream Pipeline project could cripple the Western regime.

In Iraq, radical Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda are reportedly planning to take Baghdad, after successfully advancing in the north. It's thought the governments now asked the US to carry out drone strikes against the insurgents. Marina Portnaya explains how that might mean Washington engaging against its own military hardware.