2017 Year in Review | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 22, 2017 2017 was the kind of year when no amount of showers could wash off the feeling of existential yeccchhhhh that crept over ...

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 ...

Amerika's Jacob's Ladder | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2017 In Adrian Lyne's 1990 drama, Jacob's Ladder, Tim Robbins plays a haunted Vietnam War vet mourning his dead son, while sufferin ...

The Darkest Hours | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 18, 2017 The Tax “Reform” bill working its way painfully out the digestive system of congress like a sigmoid fistula, ought be re-named the U.S. Asset-s ...

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 ...

Bitcoin Futures May Offer No Way Out | Stephen Gandel

Dec. 12, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin traders and watchers have been busy heralding the entrance of cryptocurrencies futures. What they should really be focused on is the exit. The first 24 hours of t ...

Abracadabra | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 11, 2017 And so, as they say in the horror movies, it begins…! The unwinding of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Such an esoteric concept! Is there ...

Stranger Things | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 8, 2017 The hidden agenda in the so-called tax reform bill is to act as stop-gap quantitative easing to plug the “liquidity” hole t ...