President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law last December. .....

AFP Photo / Emmanuel Dunand May 16, 2012 (RT) -- This case could have been a slam dunk for the NYPD, had it not been for one thing: the video showing poli .....

White House & Dems Back Banks Over Protests: Newly Discovered Homeland Security Files Show Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown May 17, 2012 ( .....

Apr. 26, 2012 (TruthDig) -- Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have been tracked, surveilled, detained -- sometimes at gunpoint -- and interroga .....

CityPlace, West Palm Beach, Fla.James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 14, 2012 -- The New Urbanists held their big annual meet-up for four .....

Nuclear Calendar -- May 14, 2012 May 13-14 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hold a summit. Beijing. North Korea's nuclear program is on the agenda. May 14 .....

John Michael GreerMay 9, 2012 (Archdruid Report) .....

May 4, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is .....

May 2, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- The troubling news about methane releases from the Arctic ocean that was the focus of last week’s post on The Archdruid Report be .....

Apr. 30, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Phili .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 7, 2012 -- Europe may soon be choking on that plat du jour of government a la Hollandaise with the side of chopped Greek salad .....

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Methane plume from the sea floor Oct. 25, 2012 ( .....

A fish rots from the head Apr. 25, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Andy Worthington is a super .....

Apr. 23, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- When did things begin going wrong in America? .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Apr. 30, 2012 -- A few weeks ago I flew to Chicago, hopped into a rent-a-car, and navigated my way on the tangle of interstate highways .....

Nuclear Calendar -- April 30, 2012 April 28-May 6 House and Senate recess. .....

Apr. 18, 2012 (Archruid Report) -- A complex and self-justifying mythology has grown up around the process by which, during and after the Second World .....

Apr. 19, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, de .....

Side by Side - Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. Edited by: Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh. New Press, New York, 2012. Apr 22, 2012 (Palestinian Chronicle) -- .....

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Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation April 16, 2012 .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Apr. 16, 2012 -- In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, the excellent Bill Moyers hosted political activist Ang .....

Apr. 12, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The U.S. government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens .....

Apr. 10, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. .....

Apr. 11, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- I apologize in advance to those of my readers who find military history uninteresting. The next part of the story I’m exploring just now, the story of .....

Nuclear love. Ben Heine The Greatest Single Threat to Humanity: Fuel Pool .....

Global Research, April 5, 2012 A British foreign policy think tank has this week released a study cl .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Apr. 9, 2012 -- Is there a Baby Boomer so dim in this land of rackets and swindles who thinks that he or she will escape the wrath of the M .....

Global Research, April 4, 2012 Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism. The standard pattern that the United States and its allies use to execute them is one where genocide and ethnic cleansing ar .....

Global Research, April 4, 2012 There is mounting controversy regarding the purchase of the F-35 stealth fighter jet from U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin. The Pentag .....

Apr. 2, 2012 -- Global Research "steer clear of permanent alliances with .....

Apr. 4, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- I’ve commented more than once in these essays on the way that so many people on the leftward end of today’s American politics act as though A .....

Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. CREDIT: Al .....

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Global Research, April 5, 2012 The mounting threat of a U.S.-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: (1) the recent milit .....

John BairdApr. 4, 2012 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- A recent interview on al-Jazeera (posted March 31, 2012) wi .....

The Balfour Declaration -- The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Jonathan Schneer Anchor Canada (Random House), Toronto, 2012. Apr. 2, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This i .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Apr. 2, 2012 -- In the drunken, drug-crazed twilight of its run as Leader of the Free World, America's collective imagination swerves from one breakdown lane .....

Mar. 28, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- It’s a curious feature of American history that some of its major turning points are best summed up by books. .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 26, 2012 -- So, last Friday I think my doctor fired me.&n .....

Mar. 26, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empi .....

March 29, 2012 Back to regular view .....

Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping -- The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012. Mar. 23, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This short book, or elongated .....

Mar. 21, (Archdruid Report) -- The struggle between Northern and Southern models of human ecology in 19th-century America, the theme of .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 19, 2012 -- This still moment on the verge of spring equinox, industrial civilization is taking a rest from its travails of finance and economy. .....

Nuclear Calendar -- March 19, 2012 | Friends Committee on National Legislation   .....

Mar. 14, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved .....

Mar. 10, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced yesterday that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s claim true? .....

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Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 13, 2012 .....

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The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans - Addressing Pedagogical Strategies. Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman. Palgrave/MacMillan, 2011. Mar. 10, 2012 (Pa .....

Mar. 7, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- To understand the decline and approaching fall of the American empire, it’s necessary to understand how that empire came .....

ADVISORY Mar. 8, 2012 (World News Trust) -- The World News Trust website is having technical problems. We regret any inconvenience this may c .....

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James Howard Kunstler  -- World News Trust Mar. 5, 2012 -- America is starting to remind me of Bette Davis in the horror movie classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? America is lo .....

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Ryan Remio .....

Feb. 29, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- The structure of empire anatomized in last week’s po .....

Portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1762 Mar. 2, 2012 ( .....

Matt Taibbi speaking at an .....

Feb. 22, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Empires, as last week’s post noted, have been around for a long time. .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 27, 2012 -- Those frightening sounds, sights, and odors on the wind this foreboding snowless winter -- like emanations from some back ward of a global psychiatr .....

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John Michael Greer Feb. 15, 2012 ( .....

The Unmaking of Israel. Gershom Gorenberg. Harper Collins, New York. 2011 Feb. 21, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Many recent works are reflecting an internal crisis within Israe .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 1012 -- The misalignment of politics and reality threatens to scuttle both major parties, but it's especially gratifying to see the Republicans sail off th .....

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.” --Helen Keller Feb. 19, 2012 -- One Sunday afternoon last November -- in the pre-ev .....

Feb. 20, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI -- the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots” -- called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” .....

Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 18-26 House and Senate Presidents Day .....

Feb. 15, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? According to ne .....

Feb. 14, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringing them democracy. But is th .....

The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival. Hirsh Goodman. Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2011. Dec. 30, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- The “Anatomy of Isr .....

Imperial Messenger -- Thomas Friedman at Work. Belen Fernandez. Verso Books, London/New York, 2011. Dec. 12, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Thomas Friedman is a writer whom I have avoided reading o .....

Daguerreotype of Brown, ca.1856. James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust .....

Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 13 11:15 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget. Posted on the Governmen .....

Feb. 8, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Ir .....

Flying Nuclear Robot. Credit: Irregular Times James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust .....

Feb. 6, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Last Friday the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to 8 .....

Feb. 2, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams .....

Jan. 31, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Last Friday (Jan. 27) the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in the last quarter of 2011 the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8 percent .....

Gerald Calente Jan. 30, 2012 (PaulCrai .....

Beyond Tribal Loyalties - Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists. Ed. Avigail Abarbanel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2012. Jan. 30, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- In h .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 30, 2012 -- Well, he had to get up there and say something. In this particular winter of our discontent, the wispiest nostrums and baldest lies will do. America is not interested in reality. America is a 900-pound man impr .....

(Editor's note: World News Trust does not endorse Ron Paul, or any candidate for political office.) Jan. 27, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- In the Soviet Union common criminals were punished less harshly and received better treatment than political prisoners. A person who had committed a violent crime had more rights than someone who expressed criticism of the government and could be portrayed as having acted .....

Jan. 24, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The U.S. government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 23, 2012 -- On last week's podcast, Duncan and I yakked about an important concept introduced by Nicole Foss at The Automatic Earth blog site. .....

(Editor's note: World News Trust does not endorse Ron Paul, or any candidate, for political office.) Jan. 22, 2012 (PaulCraigRo .....

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 18, 2012 -- Regardless of who may rule Israel, little change ever occurs in the country’s foreign policy. .....

Jan. 16, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Since my Jan. 11 column and the .....

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 16, 2012 -- The awesome exertions of the global banking system to evade the mandates of reality finally yield in a sickening slippage to epochal unwind. .....

(Editor's note: World News Trust does not endorse Ron Paul, or any candidate, for political office.) Jan. 14, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Ameri .....

The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders -- Media and Conflict in Israel. Mustafa Kabha and Dan Caspi. Vallentine Mitchell, London/Portland, 2011. Jan. 15, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) .....

Jan. 12, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Jan. 11 was the tenth anniversary of amerika’s Guantanamo torture prison. N .....

(Editor's note: World News Trust does not endorse Ron Paul, or any candidate, for political office. --Francis Goodwin) Jan. 11, 2012 ( .....

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust .....

Jan. 6, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The following report is based on the work of statistician John Williams of shadowstats.com: T .....

Jan. 6, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Jobs offshoring, financial deregulation, and 10 years of wars have severely damaged the U.S. economy and the economic prospects of 90 percent of the Ame .....

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust .....