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 ...

Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles Around America | Ellen Brown

‘One Belt, One Road,’ a planned modern Silk Road with China at its heart Feb. 27, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking o ...

What Wall Street’s Critics Miss | David L. Bahnsen

The global finance industry makes for a convenient scapegoat, but its excesses are merely a symptom of our culture’s maladies. Photo: Charging Bull by Arturo Di Modica World News Trust Editor's Note: ...

Bitcoin Futures May Offer No Way Out | Stephen Gandel

Dec. 12, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin traders and watchers have been busy heralding the entrance of cryptocurrencies futures. What they should really be focused on is the exit. The first 24 hours of t ...

The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble | Bloomberg News Editors

Bitcoin is a poor currency and a crazy investment -- but the technology behind it is a real breakthrough. Nov. 30, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- An influential new recruit has joined the chorus of bitcoin skep ...

The Dark Inevitability of Zionism | Lawrence Davidson

Among the growing assaults on freedom of speech is an Israeli-driven campaign to criminalize a campaign to boycott Israel over its racist persecution of Palestinians, writes Lawrence Davidson. Nov. 2 ...

The Infinite Suburb Is an Academic Joke | James Howard Kunstler

Oct. 27, 2017 (The American Conservative) -- The elite graduate schools of urban planning have yet another new vision of the future. Lately, they see a new-and-improved suburbia -- based on self-driv ...

On Repairing/Rebuilding 100,000+ Damaged Houses | Charles Hugh Smith

Texas National Guard soldiers arrive in Houston, Texas to aid citizens in heavily flooded areas from the storms of Hurricane Harvey. (Photos by Lt. Zachary West, 100th MPAD) Almost lost in all the do ...

How Antarctic ice melt can be a tipping point for the planet's climate | Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Peter Kershaw, Steven Phipps and Zoë Thomas

Melting Antarctic ice can trigger effects on the other side of the globe. Credit: NASA/Jane Peterson Sept. 13, 2017 (The Conversation) -- Melting of Antarctica's ice can trigger rapid warming on the ...

Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning | Peter Coy and Christopher Flavelle

A family in Katy, just west of Houston, floats on an inflatable mattress. PHOTOGRAPHER: PHILIP MONTGOMERY FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Houston exulted in sprawling, hands-off growth. That’s no way to p ...

The Uninhabitable Earth | David Wallace-Wells

Fossils by Heartless Machine. In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal. And the effec ...