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 ...

Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 30, 2018 On February 20, 2018, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, ...

Stress in infancy 'dramatically alters' body's organs | Ethan A. Everington

The GABAA receptor CREDIT: Wikipedia May 29, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Scientists have found the first evidence suggesting emotional stress in infancy has significant and far-reaching effects on the body an ...

Physicists invent flux capacitor, break time-reversal symmetry | Jared Cole

Schematic representation of the proposed circulator. Credit: FLEET May 28, 2018 (Phys.org) -- In the popular movie franchise "Back to the Future," an eccentric scientist creates a time machine that r ...

How a particle may stand still in rotating spacetime | Lisa Zyga

When a particle with a certain angular momentum is located at the critical distance rst, it remains at rest while the spacetime is rotating around it. The closer a particle is to this critical distan ...

Hitler definitely died in 1945 according to new study of his teeth | AFP

"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler. He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine, he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon," professor Philippe Charl ...

An Affront to History: Giro d’Italia’s ‘Sport-Washing’ of Israeli Apartheid | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 15, 2018 For the first time since its inception in 1909, the legendary Italian cycling race, Giro d’Italia kicked off outside Europe and, strangel ...

Eclipsing Factionalism: The Missing Story from the Gaza Protests | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 10, 2018 The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli Occupation, the siege and the long-delayed "Right of Return" fo ...

Twilight Zone Amerika: Woody Allen meets Rod Serling | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 6, 2018 Baby boomers should recall the cutting edge television series (1959-64) The Twilight Zone. Creator Rod Serling, who wrote many e ...

Unprecedented study identifies 44 genetic risk factors for major depression | King's College London

A global research project has mapped out the genetic basis of major depression, identifying 44 genetic variants which are risk factors for depression, 30 of which are newly discovered. The study, by ...

Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence DNA from all complex life on Earth | Harris A. Lewin

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence all eukaryotic species. This superkingdom of life includes all organisms except bacteria and archaea. Credit: Mirhee Lee. April 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- An ...