World News Trust - Australia/Oceania

The Unique Human Capacity for War | Michael Brenner
Trench warfare during World War I. One characteristic that sets humans apart from other animals is the capability to organize sustained warfare against members of their own species, a troubling fact ...
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Air Pollution Skyrocketing Worldwide in 'Public Health Emergency': WHO | Nadia Prupis
WHO found that fully 92 percent of people worldwide live in regions where the pollution exceeds the organization's safety limits. (Photo: UCL News/flickr/cc) Developing countries and vulnerable ...
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IMF Lowers Global Growth Forecast by Most in Three Years | Andrew Mayeda
Jan. 20, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- The IMF made the steepest cut to its global-growth outlook in three years, with diminished expectations almost everywhere except the U.S. more than offsetting the boost ...
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Trade Secrets | George Monbiot
George MonbiotWhy will no one answer the obvious, massive question about TTIP? Jan. 13, 2015 (Monbiot.com) -- When a government proposes to abandon one of the fundamental principles of justice, ...
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A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy | John Michael Greer
Oct. 22, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- If you’ve ever wondered just how powerfully collective thinking grips most members of our species -- including, by and large, those who most forcefully insist on ...
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End to Fed stimulus, China slowdown spark world sell-off | Richard Hubbard
LONDON (Reuters) - Clear signals from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it will soon stop pumping money into the global economy and data pointing to slower growth in China sparked sharp falls in bonds, ...
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Know Your History: Beware Democrat Heroes | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2012 “In dreams begin responsibilities.” - W.B. Yeats On Oct. 26, I attended an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) event called “Enemies of the ...
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Trans Pacific Partnership: Corporate Escape From Accountability | Paul Craig Roberts
July 2, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Information has been leaked about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is being negotiated in secret by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Six hundred ...
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Ghana Cracks Down On Gays (Sydney Star Observer)
July 21, 2011 (Sydney Star Observer) -- Ghana’s Western Region Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo MP has ordered the immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the country’s west. Aidooo has tasked Ghana’s ...
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Murdoch heads for a Fall (Mike Whitney)
July 08, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Boy, this is about as sleazy as it gets... Imagine that your 13-year old daughter has been kidnapped and you have no idea where she is. So you ...
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This crisis has an exit (Ellen Brown)
June 7, 2011 (Asia Times) -- Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008. Public services are being slashed and public assets are being sold off, ...
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