Shale Is A Retirement Party For The Oil Industry | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 9, 2018 As of this week, the shale oil miracle launched U.S. oil production above the 1970 previous-all-time record at just over 10 million barrels a da ...

Amerka, the Cartoon | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2018 Many baby boomers remember the original MAD Magazine, founded in 1952. MAD reached its apex during the mid to late 60s, when there was so much to ...

John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Cindy Cohn

John Perry Barlow Cindy Cohn -- EFF Feb. 7, 2018 With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep ...

Dow Plunges 1,175, The Biggest Point Drop In History | Avie Schneider

Feb. 5, 2018 -- 4:55 p.m. -- (NPR) -- The stock market went on a wild ride again Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing down 1,175 points, its worst point drop in history. The Dow clos ...

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 Feb. 5 Date under the New START Treaty by which the United States and Russia are to comply with the treaty's central limits on strategic arms (700 deployed interc ...

Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 5, 2018 This is the second in a two-part article on the debt burden America’s students face. Read Part 1 here. The lending business is heavily stacked against stu ...

Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Dec. 26, 2018 Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors. The advantages of slavery by ...

How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 23, 2018 In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the U.S. government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while ...

Recent Bitcoin Correction Falls Right on Expected Growth Path | Stephen Farrington

Stephen Farrington -- World News Trust Jan. 20, 2018 A lot of sensational headlines over the past few days have announced the “crash of bitcoin,” the “bursting of the bubble,” the “beginning of the e ...

Apple investors urge action to curb child gadget addiction | AP

Image by Jose Roberto Navas. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Jan. 8, 2018 (AP) -- Two major Apple investors have urged the iPhone maker to take action to curb growing smartphone addiction among children, highli ...

What is 'activism' when we’ve already passed the point of no return? | Mickey Z.

Image from Planet of the Apes movie Mickey Z. -- World News Trust For years, whenever I gave public talks, I’d provide some gloom-and-doom factoids in a misguided attempt to jolt people into “action. ...