Smaller cities likely to see more job loss due to automation | Morgan R. Frank et al

The impact of automation in US cities. (a) The distribution of expected job impact (Em) from automation across US cities using estimates from Frey & Osborne. (Inset) The distribution using alternativ ...

Killing the Dream 50 Years On -- Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust June 3, 2018 Being a politically -- among other things -- naive young man circa 1968, this writer did not understand what in the hell was go ...

No Sympathy for the Devils | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 29, 2018 No Sympathy for the Devils The title of this essay is a play on words from the Rolling Stones most pertinent commentary song "S ...

Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work | Ellen Brown

California has more than $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused ...

The Pawns of War | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 25, 2018 She would always have the brightest smile as she stood at the intersection of Avenue T and Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn, New York, ci ...

To Protect and Serve... The Empire | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 22, 2018 Writer Eric Zuesse wrote a great new piece "How Democracy Ended," seen on a few fine sites. He shows how our U.S. so-called dem ...

Socialism Can SAVE America | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 14, 2018 To this writer, any time I dare mention that I am a Socialist brings smirks to many faces. The stigma is so great, mostly due t ...

Six months In '68: A Drastic Awakening | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 3, 2018 Fifty years has flown by for many baby boomers. So much has transpired, and yet, the first six months in 1968 were the foundatio ...

Totalitarian Dream: Fatherland/Homeland | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farrugio -- World News Trust April 24, 2018 The Nazi regime running Germany in the 1930s and 40s came up with the word Fatherland for their nation. Words and phrases can ...

Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising | Ellen Brown

The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150 percent of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what ...

'Ground Control to Major Trump' | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 12, 2018 Those who remember the late David Bowie's 1969 song Space Oddity can recall the lyrics: "Ground Control to Major Tom." Almost ...