At the Recycling Machine in the Age of COVID — Mickey Z

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 8, 2021 Recently, as I neared my local C-Town supermarket, I passed its recycling station. Just outside the entrance are a couple of machines at which l ...

The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Feb. 11, 2021 Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighti ...

Most Of Those Arrested For Capitol Riot Had A History Of Financial Trouble | Todd C. Frankel

Trail of bankruptcies, tax problems and bad debts raises questions for researchers trying to understand motivations for attack Feb. 10, 2021 (Washington Post) -- Nearly 60 percent of the people facin ...

That Time I Became Robin Hood — Mickey Z.

Eduard Muzhevskyi / Science Photo Library Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 7, 2021 With “Robin Hood” in the news recently, it’s made me hark back to a time when I engaged in some “steal from the ...

Pandemic slows across world | AFP

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Jan. 29, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down in every region of the world over the past week, according to a specialised AFP database. Here is ...

Just Add Water — Mickey Z.

Photo: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 25, 2021 Back in the pre-mask era, I'd regularly venture into Manhattan to train fitness clients. On those early morning trips, it was not uncomm ...

The US Money Tree: The Untold Story of American Aid to Israel | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2020 On Dec. 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spendin ...

How the Richest Man in the World Made Us Trust the COVID Vaccine — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World New Trust December 27, 2020 Preface: In August 2020, I wrote an article entitled, “Can a 'Warp Speed' COVID-19 Vaccine Be Safe?” It covers a lot of ground and if yo ...

The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2020 The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer" should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is ano ...

Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The 'American System' Solution | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Dec. 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solv ...

Polarization increases with economic decline, becoming cripplingly contagious | Princeton University

CC0 Public Domain Dec. 11, 2020 (Phys.org) -- The rise of populist movements is changing political systems around the world. As support for these "anti-elite" movements intensifies, many are scrambli ...