News Selected By World News Trust Editors
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'Spaceship Earth' Sculpture Collapses (Associated Press)
Associated Press Jan. 5, 2007 -- ATLANTA -- A million-dollar stone sculpture, intended to remind future generations of the Earth’s fragility, made its point a bit early -– it collapsed just three ...
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Is The U.S. Planning a Horrific Global Nuclear War? (Michel Chossudovsky)
By Michel Chossudovsky -- Information Clearing House Jan. 17, 2007 -- At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the ...
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What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran (Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann)
By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN -- New York Times Op-Ed Dec. 24, 2006 -- WASHINGTON -- HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central ...
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Global systemic crisis in 2007 (LEAP/E2020)
Financial sector: Another bubble close to bursting Public announcement GEAB N°10 Dec. 16, 2006 -- Finance is one of the four sectors identified by LEAP/E2020 in the December issue of their ...
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Secret dossier 'led to spy death' (Reuters)
Dec. 16, 2006 -- MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed because of an eight-page dossier he had compiled on a powerful Russian figure for a British company, ...
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Yangtze River Dolphin Officially Declared Extinct (Paul Watson)
We’ve Lost Another Cetacean Species Message from Captain Paul Watson -- Sea Shepherd News Dec. 14, 2006 -- I am steaming angry today. The Yangtze river dolphin called the Baiji has been officially ...
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Former British diplomat makes public secret evidence on Iraq
Dec. 15, 2006 (AFP) -- Previously secret written evidence submitted to an inquiry on British intelligence failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was made public, with a former diplomat ...
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Population and the Sixth Great Extinction (Energy Bulletin)
Energy Bulletin Dec. 14, 2006 -- Peak oil, climate change, species extinction, overpopulation, agricultural land degredation and almost any other environmental issue are so intertwined that one shys ...
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Anthrax attack on US Congress made by scientists and covered up by FBI, expert says (Sherwood Ross)
Sherwood Ross -- Middle East Times Dec. 11, 2006 -- WASHINGTON -- The terrorists who perpetrated the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely were US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, ...
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Report: World Bank Losing War on Poverty (Peter Goodman)
Living Conditions for Millions are Worse by Peter Goodman -- San Francico Chronicle Dec. 8, 2006 -- Despite an intensified campaign against poverty, World Bank programs have failed to lift incomes ...
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Shuttle Discovery To Launch Tonight
Astronauts Head to Launch Pad Space.com Dec. 9, 2006 -- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -– The seven Discovery astronauts have begun a 20-minute ride in their silver ‘Astro Van’ toward Kennedy Space Center’s ...
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