What if a foreign head of state had the power to handpick our next President? It sounds like the plot of a movie, but it…
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The United States (US) government often cites $18 trillion as the amount of money that they owe, but their actual debts are higher. Much higher.…
Alex Cedeño quit renting two years ago. Now, he has just two years left until he owns his own home. And it’s all thanks to…
The yields of many important crops in Europe have been stagnating since the 1990s. As a result, the input of organic matter into the soil…
With all eyes glued to Friday's payrolls report, we thought it worth reiterating some 'facts' about US employment data. As ECRI notes, the sustained decline…
It is, we are told, an age of bitter austerity, where belts are being tightened with dedication, and services cut with thrifty diligence. There are,…
In 1928, famed British economist John Maynard Keynespredicted that technology would advance so far in a hundred years – by 2028 – that it will replace…
A 2015 study has shown that children exposed to pesticides used to grow GM soy suffer serious genetic damage. Does this mean that our children will suffer the…
A coalition of 82 civil liberties and human rights organizations, as well as faith-based groups and immigrant rights advocates, on Tuesday called on the U.S. Department of…
The climate change talks to be held in Paris this December (COP 21 in UN lingo) are all about how much risk to the livability…
The financial markets have been through some wild and crazy times over the last two weeks, although it appears that they have finally stabilized. The…
The Chinese are in the process of displacing the monopoly of the US dollar. They are dropping their US Treasury bonds, stockpiling gold reserves, and…