By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch sixth mass extermination of species | Daniel Rothman

Sedimentary rocks at Meishan, China. These rocks contain signatures of a disturbance in the carbon cycle immediately preceding Earth's greatest mass extinction. Credit: Shuzhong Shen Sept. 20, 2017 ( ...

The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets | Ramzy Baroud

Aung San Suu Kyi. By Foreign and Commonwealth Office via Wikimedia CommonsRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 13, 2017 To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the we ...

Nuclear Apocalypse: Trump and Kim Should Not Hold the World Hostage | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 23, 2017 Not too far away from Seattle, Washington, there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world’s large shipments of nuclear ...

Family Values? | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 16, 2017 Adolf Hitler never had any children, but most historians reveal how much he apparently loved the little ones... IF they were o ...

After one century of public relations, we march in lockstep | Mickey Z.

Image by AK Rockefeller, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 11, 2017 “As force is always on side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion.” - Davi ...

Donald Trump And The Coming Fall Of The American Empire | Jeremy Scahill

Illustration: Elise Swain for The Intercept Famed historian Alfred McCoy interviewed by The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill July 22, 2017 (The Intercept) -- Even as President Donald Trump faces ever-inten ...

A long overdue ‘thank you’ to Spielberg for helping me get my first book deal | Mickey Z.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 15, 2016 “We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow orders!” - Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) The Museum of the Moving Image ...

Increasing likelihood of extreme sea levels | Thomas Wahl

A family is evacuated during the great storm of 1953. Credit: Canterbury City Council July 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists at the University of Southampton are warning that future coastal impact stu ...

Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030 | AFP

June 30, 2017 (AFP) -- Japan has revealed ambitious plans to put an astronaut on the Moon around 2030 in new proposals from the country's space agency. This is the first time the Japan Aerospace Expl ...

Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos | Quaternary Science Reviews

The sea level rise and the colossal amounts of meltwater discharged from the collapsing ice sheet meant that areas that previously were land eventually became seabed. Britain and Ireland, which had b ...

Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership | Timothy L. O'Brien

Donald Trump (ABC News) An insider describes the Bayrock Group, its links to the Trump family and its mysterious access to funds. It isn't pretty. June 21, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- The special counsel’s i ...