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 ...

War Is A Racket | Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC I. WAR IS A RACKET WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most viciou ...

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 ...

Nuclear Calendar -- May 27, 2018 -- FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation May 26, 2018 May 21-June 1 2nd CTBT Science Diplomacy Symposium, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria. Register online. May 28-Ju ...

Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app | AFP

May 20, 2018 (AFP) -- For its updated news application, Google is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence as part of an effort to weed our disinformation and help users get viewpoints bey ...

The mind-boggling corruption of Trump Inc. | Ryan Cooper

"Trump." By IoSonoUnaFotoCamera. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)May 18, 2018 (The Week) -- Another week in the Donald Trump presidency, another handful of days so stuffed full of sordid and highly complicated ...

Does Our National News Media Mislead Us About The Value Of Exit Polls In Monitoring Our Elections? | Dale Tavris

Map of red states and blue states in the U.S. Red=The Republican candidate carried the state in all four most recent presidential elections (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016). Pink=The Republican candidate car ...

Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as ‘Liberals’ and ‘Progressives’ Go Mute | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 1, 2018 Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests ...

Ghost Signs in New York City (part 1) | Mickey Z.

Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 4, 2018 These days an advertisement can load a discount coupon onto your smartphone as you walk past. But not that long ago, ad men needed paint, s ...

The Original Donald Trump | Frank Rich

Roy Cohn in 1986, a few months before he died. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onet ...

Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 Friends Committee On National Legislation April 23-May 4 2nd Preparatory Committee Session for 2020 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. Re ...