News From World News Trust Contributors
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Happy 8th Birthday, Gitmo: an interview with watchdog Andy Worthington (Elizabeth Ferrari)
Is the Pentagon undermining Obama's Gitmo policy? Elizabeth Ferrari -- World News Trust Jan. 11, 2010 -- An interview with Andy Worthington about Guantánamo, on the Eighth Anniversary of the ...
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My Father Was A Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Ramzy Baroud)
Dec. 27, 2009 -- LONDON -- “And so I begin. His name was Mohammed Baroud, and he was a good man,” is how Ramzy Baroud concludes the Foreword to his new book, and embarks on a chronicle so rare and ...
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ADVISORY: WNT Site Is Back Up After Disruption
Nov. 14, 2009 -- STOCKBRIDGE, Vt. (World News Trust) -- The World News Trust site is back up after a database problem since early Friday morning. Please report any issues to Francis Goodwin, WNT ...
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BOOKS: Speak English | Mike Palecek
Now Available from CWG Press Reviewers are calling this new novel from Mike Palecek a MUST READ. Here's a link to Joan Wile's review on Rag Blog: Sci-fi, conspiracy theories and politics merge: ...
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IMF Stakes Claim To Be Everybody's Central Bank | Emsden & Parussini
ISTANBUL (Dow Jones)--The International Monetary Fund pitched its case Friday for becoming a global central bank, a function that would require a hefty capital injection but could help even out ...
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We Poke Along | David Glenn Cox
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Oct. 1, 2009 -- In May of 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034 establishing the Works Projects Administration. The WPA replaced the Federal ...
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4 Degrees Warming by 2060 (Michael Greenwell)
Michael Greenwell -- World News Trust Sept. 29, 2009 -- A recent report from the MET office said that global temperatures could rise by 4 degrees centigrade by 2060. Were that to happen the results ...
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Killing an innocent man (Nicole Colson)
Cameron Todd Willingham holds Amber, one of his three children who died in the 1991 Texas house fire he was convicted of setting. (Family photo) Nicole Colson reports on the case of a Texas man who ...
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Krugman's must read on Stimulus Logic and the history of failure of GOP ideas (William Chirolas)
William Chirolas William Chirolas -- World News Trust http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em The above links to a 13-page, 6,700-word summary of economic ...
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Doctors lead ‘Care-A-Van’ for single payer to Congress (Kathlyn Stone)
Six “Mad as Hell Doctors” from Oregon embark on a cross country road trip Sept. 8 to demand Congress enact a single payer system. Kathlyn Stone -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2009 -- Six physicians ...
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U.S. Economy: Consumer Confidence, Home Prices Exceed Forecasts (Courtney Schlisserman and Shobhana Chandra)
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. consumer confidence climbed more than forecast and national home prices increased for the first time in three years, signaling government efforts to right the world’s ...
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