Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab (Scott Thill)

Nov. 2, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast Asia ...

Cell Phone Trap (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 4, 2010 -- It is now inconceivable that our world could function without the 5 billion cell phones used globally. The new book by Devra Davis “Disconnect” ...

Law Curbs McDonald's Happy Meal Toys (Lisa Baertlein)

Nov. 3, 2010 -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant m ...

Plan To Lift Smoking Ban In Small Pubs (Reuters)

Nov. 4, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -- Bowing to resistance to a smoking ban imposed on the nation's bars and cafes more than two years ago, the new Dutch government has opted to partially reverse th ...

U.S. 'Quantitative Easing' is Fracturing the Global Economy (Prof Michael Hudson)

Moreover, it may well be asked whether we can take it for granted that a return to freedom of exchanges is really a question of time. Even if the reply were in the affirmative, it is safe to assume t ...

Why aren't you happy? (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust True happiness is out there. Pop songs, sit-coms, Julia Roberts movies, even commercials make it crystal clear that others have it all figured out. Love, sex, money, loo ...

Halliburton Knew Cement for BP Well Was Unstable (Jeff Plungis)

Oct. 28, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The cement Halliburton Co. recommended to seal BP Plc’s Macondo well was unstable in tests and may have contributed to the April 20 blowout, the staff of a national commi ...

When Criminals Vote… (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2010 -- Election Day is mental illness in plain view -- unabashed, unfettered lunacy not even trying to masquerade as sanity. If we woke up, it would take perha ...

Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now (Ted Rall)

Oct. 21, 2010 -- SAN FRANCISCO (Information Clearing House) -- What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so. In one case in Florida, an ...

Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)

Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. The Washingt ...

Jim Rogers Says Bank Balance Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff (CNBC)

Oct. 20, 2010 (CNBC) -- The problems banks have with mortgages will take a long time to be solved and bank stocks are not attractive despite the recent drop in price following fears over problems wit ...