Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Dec. 26, 2018 Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors. The advantages of slavery by ...

How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 23, 2018 In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the U.S. government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while ...

Recent Bitcoin Correction Falls Right on Expected Growth Path | Stephen Farrington

Stephen Farrington -- World News Trust Jan. 20, 2018 A lot of sensational headlines over the past few days have announced the “crash of bitcoin,” the “bursting of the bubble,” the “beginning of the e ...

Apple investors urge action to curb child gadget addiction | AP

Image by Jose Roberto Navas. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Jan. 8, 2018 (AP) -- Two major Apple investors have urged the iPhone maker to take action to curb growing smartphone addiction among children, highli ...

What is 'activism' when we’ve already passed the point of no return? | Mickey Z.

Image from Planet of the Apes movie Mickey Z. -- World News Trust For years, whenever I gave public talks, I’d provide some gloom-and-doom factoids in a misguided attempt to jolt people into “action. ...

Systems That Suck Less | John Michael Greer

Dec. 27, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on political economy attracted plenty of disagreement. Now, of course, this came as no surprise, and it was also not exactly surprising that most of ...

Proof of randomness builds future of digital security | Katherine Q. Ye

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dec. 22, 2017 (Phys.org) -- In an effort to block emerging threats to online security, researchers at Princeton University have developed a method to verify the strength of ...

An Introduction to Political Economy | John Michael Greer

Adam Smith. By Unknown. Public Domain.Dec. 20, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last month, when I looked across the vast gray wasteland of the calendar page ahead and noted that there were five Wednesdays in ...

Capitalism And The World We Are Creating | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2018 “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” -Reinhold Niebuhr A couple of yea ...

Columbia Journalism Review names VTDigger leading news nonprofit | Anne Galloway

Anne Galloway -- VTDigger Dec 13 2017 Dear Readers: In an article published on Friday, the Columbia Journalism Review cited VTDigger as a national model for local nonprofit investigative news. David ...

The clown show “Left” reacts to #metoo | Mickey Z.

CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 12, 2017 For anyone dwelling outside the “radical” hive mind, the Clown Show Left™ was yet again exposed in 2016. The full gamut of misogyny was u ...