What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...

Netanyahu’s Corruption: How Israeli Journalists Project Israel’s Crimes on to Palestinians | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 28, 2018 In an article published in Al-Monitor without a single verifiable citation, Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, went to unprecedented leng ...

Deconstructing Democracy | Emanuele Corso

'The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." THE FLAG CODE, Title 36, U.S.C., Chapter 10, As amend ...

Three Different Definitions of Blockchain | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

Illustration by Stephen Farrington Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- World News Trust Jan. 26, 2018 When I began my personal deep dive into the world of distributed ledger technology, blockchain and cryp ...

United We Stand, Divided We... | Emanuele Corso

Franklin D. RooseveltEmanuele Corso -- World News Trust Feb. 5, 2018 When I was six years old I was taken by my mother to the Springfield, Massachusetts railway station. The station had a high overpa ...

Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops | Margaret Allen

Study area for the DFW Airport earthquake sequence. Yellow triangles are the 2008-2009 SMU operated stations. Blue asterisks are the earthquakes reported by the 2013-2016 SMU earthquake catalog, indi ...

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 ...

Stormy Weather | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 29, 2018 For those of us who are not admirers of President Trump, it’s even more painful to see the Democratic opposition descend i ...

What’s Justice Got To Do With It? | Emanuele Corso

"Justice as a naked woman with a sword and balance" by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1537Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Jan. 4, 2018 The problem with lawyers can be expressed in three words -- Truth, ...