Crushing the States, Saving the Banks | Ellen Brown

The Fed’s Generous New Rules May 2, 2020 (Web Of Debt) -- Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package -- a mere 5 percent -- ha ...

A System To Reproduce Different Animal Locomotion Skills In Robots | Ingrid Fadelli

Credit: Google May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a variety ...

How Narcissistic Leaders Destroy From Within | Stanford University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain May 1, 2020 (Phys.org) -- When the person at the top is malignant and self-serving, unethical behavior cascades through the organization and becomes legitimized. What traits ...

What the Pandemic Revealed: a Morally Bankrupt Culture | Charles Hugh Smith

Monopolies, quasi-monopolies and cartels are inherently exploitive and thus evil. May 1, 2020 (OfTwoMinds.com) -- What was "normal" for the past two decades was to turn a blind eye to the moral and f ...

A Universal Basic Income Is Essential And Will Work | Ellen Brown

A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions. Ellen Brown -- Web Of Debt April 19, 2020 According to an April 6 article on CNBC ...

In The Footsteps Of High John | John Michael Greer

April 15, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, while winding up the story of the colonial Rhode Island astrologer Joseph Stafford, I noted that the kind of occultism practiced by Stafford and Johan ...

Was the Fed Just Nationalized? | Ellen Brown

Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt April 3, 2020 Mainstream politicians have long insisted that Medicare for all, ...

The Twilight of the Monofuture | John Michael Greer

July 31, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m pleased to say that my post here two weeks ago, on the way that belief in progress depends on a certain kind of historical amnesia, got a lively and mostly though ...

How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed | Ellen Brown

July 10, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another t ...

Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control | Ellen Brown

June 27, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated -- not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the ...

The Two Narratives of Palestine: The People Are United, the Factions Are Not | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 5, 2019 The International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul April 27-29 brought together many speakers and hundreds of academics, journalis ...