Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising | Ellen Brown

The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150 percent of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what ...

The public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.” | Mickey Z.

By DonkeyHotey (Stormy Daniels - Caricature) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 19, 2018 “The reasons a woman only has to make one porn film to be a ‘porn star’ are similar t ...

Nuclear Calendar -- April 17, 2018 -- FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation April 17, 2018 April 17 8:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m, "China and North Korea: Past, Present, and Future," with multiple speakers, United States Ins ...

The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

Obesity rates keep rising for U.S. adults | Dennis Thompson

Photo: martin.mutch, flickr (CC BY 2.0)March 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Obesity rates have continued to climb significantly among American adults, but the same hasn't held true for children, a new govern ...

The War on the Post Office | Ellen Brown

Pearhead Ceramic Pink Piggy BankMarch 17, 2018 (EllenBrown.com) -- The U.S. Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 7, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 7, 2018 March 7 10:00-11:30 a.m., Daniel Salisbury, Project on Managing the Atom, "Countering WMD-related Illicit Trade: Insights f ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...