Disasters
Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 29, 2005. (NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Jan. 24, 2017 (The Intercept) -- We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, w ...
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2016 On Friday, Oct. 7, we were awaiting the hurricane named Mathew that was fast approaching Daytona Beach, Florida. My wife and I ...
March 27, 2015 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- I admire David Ray Griffin for his wide-ranging intelligence, his research skills, and for his courage. Dr. Griffin is not afraid to take on the controversial ...
Photo credit: Mickey Z. (“Occupy this Book” excerpt) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 28, 2014 (The following is an edited excerpt from Occupy this Book: Mickey Z. on Activism, which can be ordered ...
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Interview with Reena Shadaan Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “If you believe in corporate accountability, environmental health and justice, social justice, reproductive justice, ...
Oct. 9, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- We have known since... well, when haven’t we known that our public officials are incompetent. Their incompetence is always expensive, but now it risks a worldwi ...
GENEVA, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 3,879 people out of 8,033 cases by the end of Oct. 5, with no evidence that the epidemic was being brought under control in Wes ...
Oct. 1, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- I've talked more than once in these essays about the challenge of discussing the fall of civilizations when the current example is picking up speed right outside th ...
Ebola virus. Photo credit: NPR Sept. 23, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- Without better containment of the Ebola outbreak, there may be 550,000 to 1.4 million cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone by January, accord ...
Ebola virus Sept. 20, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could spread to hundreds of thousands more people by the end of January, according to an estimate under development by the ...
Sept. 19, 2014 -- According to the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth had its warmest June through August on record, Bloomberg News reports. The combined land and ocean temperature for the glob ...