End to Fed stimulus, China slowdown spark world sell-off | Richard Hubbard

LONDON (Reuters) - Clear signals from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it will soon stop pumping money into the global economy and data pointing to slower growth in China sparked sharp falls in bonds, s ...

Paths of Folly | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 17, 2013 Societies periodically go insane. Fallacious memes sweep through a frightened and confused populace and bad things happen, bad choices get made ...

African Safari Trip of a Lifetime | Joel S. Hirschhorn

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust May 22, 2013 The most amazing thing I learned on my first safari trip in South Africa is that elephants have the most incredible, very long black eyelashes. Sec ...

Gorilla Warfare: The Animal-Prison/Industrial Complex | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 13, 2013 “I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.” - Carl Sagan The role of ...

Obama’s Expanding Kill List | Paul Craig Roberts

Feb. 11, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ...

No Security Firms for African Refugees | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2013 The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognized as the world’s biggest security ...

Nothing Gold Can Stay: Mali, Mercury, Manipulation & More | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 25, 2013 “So we're told this is the golden age/And gold is the reason for the wars we wage.” - Bono As the West (this time, with France mostly taking the lead), unl ...

Mali: West Africa’s Gate to Convenient Chaos, Intervention | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 19, 2012 France is insisting on "rapid" military intervention in Mali. Its unmanned drones have reportedly been scouring the desert of the troubled West African ...

Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All | Chris Hedges

Illustration by Mr. FishNov. 19, 2012 (Truthdig) -- Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through sp ...

Deterrence in an Age of Decline | John Michael Greer

Nov. 14, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- There are times, and this is one of them, when I wonder if somewhere in the last few weeks we all somehow got teleported into an alternate universe where nothing w ...

How It Could Happen, Part Five: Dissolution | John Michael Greer

Oct. 31, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- This week’s post is the last of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As a bankrupt and divided nati ...