Seattle City Council Pulls Out Of A $3 Billion Investment For The Dakota Access Pipeline
By Jess Murray Truth Theory A decision has been made by a committee of the Seattle City Council after vote results favoured a divestment of […]
Economics
Talking About Money Is A Taboo… But This Video Is Bound To Get You Talking!
Truth Theory “No sense of pride or self, transaction, buy and sell…and steal for it” Fattima Mahdi is a 24-year-old British lyricist, author and mentor. She uses […]
Chinese Billionaire Says He Knows Where America’s Jobs Went — And It’s Not China
By James Holbrooks via Anon HQ Davos — Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba — the Chinese […]
Chinese Factory Replaces Workers With Robots, Production Soars Immediately
By Jess Murray Truth Theory In our day to day lives we are gradually seeing an increasing number of human operated jobs being replaced by […]
Woman With Down Syndrome Launches Her Own Cookie Company And It Becomes Instant Success
By Jess Murray Truth Theory A woman from Boston had always dreamt of having her own successful cookie shop, but her Down syndrome had held […]
Tesco Just Banned This One Harmful Ingredient From All Its Products
By Jess Murray Truth Theory Tesco have announced that they will remove all products containing microbeads from all of their stores by the end of […]
Iceland, Where Bad Bankers Go to Jail, Finds Nine Guilty in Historic Case
By Nadia Prupis via Common Dreams Since its 2008 crisis, Iceland has received recognition for its strategy of prosecuting executives, letting banks go bust, and focusing on […]
Colorado City To Use $1.5 Million From Cannabis Tax To Help The Homeless
Via Spirit Science The debate about the legalization of marijuana has been prevalent in North American culture for over 50 years. The decision by the […]
America’s First Certified Organic Fast Food Chain Is Here — and It Pays $16 An Hour
by Carey Wedler via The Anti-Media (ANTIMEDIA) As fast food chains like Jack in the Box and McDonald’s fight to stay afloat, a new fast […]
Documentary Reveals Who The Only Trillionaires In The World Are
by Luke Miller Truth Theory According to the Forbes rich list Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are the richest people on the planet […]
Russia Is Giving Free Land To Any Citizen Who Will Work It
by Amanda Froelich via True Activist The Russian government is offering any citizen 2.5 acres of land in exchange for farming it.Credit: Lidia Kelly If […]
Scrapping This Crappy Jet Could Provide The Entire Country With 23 Years Of Free College
via Minds The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is possibly one of the most useless jets and biggest waste of taxpayer money ever conceived by the […]
10 Years Of Fracking: Its Impact on Our Water, Land and Climate
via Eco Watch In a single year, fracking wells across the country released at least 5.3 billion pounds of the potent greenhouse gas methane, as much […]
Victory For Walmart Employees: $224 Million Awarded For Stolen Lunch Breaks
by Brianna Blaschke Walmart faces another lawsuit loss, awarding $224 million to employees that were forced to work through lunch breaks. Credit: Warehouse Workers United […]
Viral Meme Crowns Denmark As Best Country, But Denmark Has Some Secrets
Credit: True Activist by Brianna Acuesta True Activist recently posted and circulated a meme that made some pretty bold statements about Denmark and their economy and […]
How Far Can We Get Without Flying?
When a climate scientist decided to stop flying to cut his carbon emissions, he caught a glimpse of the post-oil future. by Peter Kalmus I’m […]
Global Hunger And Undernutrition Could End By 2025
by Thalif Deen The United Nations aims to help eliminate hunger and undernutrition – described as two of “greatest scourges” facing humankind — by the […]
7 Paths To Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification
The plan to build better, more connected, flourishing communities is here—and it won’t require putting a Starbucks on every block. by Marjorie Kelly & Sarah […]
Finland Plan To Pay Each Of Their Citizens $1,200 A Month Regardless Of Income
by Luke Miller Truth Theory I love Finland- they are ahead of most of the globe on many matters! Outside of oriental countries they are […]
Meet The 1 Percenters Finding Solace In Wealth Redistribution
Farhad Ebrahimi at Occupy Boston in 2011. (WNV / Farhad Ebrahimi) by Kate Aronoff In a political and economic system seemingly tailor-made for the […]
Wealth And Unethical Behavior: Understanding The Relationship Between Social Class And Moral Decision-Making
by Cameron French The fallout from the 2008 financial crisis left a bitter taste in the cultural imagination, a sense that the rich and powerful […]
Marijuana Revenue Is So High In Colorado, State Will Have To Reimburse Taxpayers
by Joshua Krause When Colorado decided to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, everyone expected the state’s tax revenue to increase. What they didn’t realize […]
Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets The Developing World For Future Profits
by Michael T. Klare In the 1980s, encountering regulatory restrictions and public resistance to smoking in the United States, the giant tobacco companies came up […]
The Constant Evolution Of E-Wallets
Over the last few years online technology has improved in staggering leaps and bounds. In the last 10 years alone it’s become an era of […]
The Almighty Dollar Is In Peril As The Global ‘De-Dollarization’ Trend Accelerates
by Michael Snyder As the Obama administration continues to alienate almost everyone else around the entire planet, an increasing number of prominent international voices are […]
World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World
by Michael Snyder Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more […]
eBay, PayPal, Apple And Dish Approve Of Bitcoin. Is Google Next?
by Justin O’Connell Bitcoin has proven itself as an established payments system, with some of the world’s most influential people commenting on its utility and […]
Putin Flushes The US Dollar: Russia’s Gold Ruble Payments System Delinked From Dollar?
by Umberto Pascali Russia “forced” by the sanctions to create a currency system which is independent from the US dollar. Russia announces that it […]
FBI Is Global Stakeholder In Cryptocurrency, Currently Owns Largest Bitcoin Wallet
Photo from casascius.com When the FBI shut down the Silk Road, an internet black market, in October it also seized the accused owner’s assets and […]
The Debt Matrix: Consumption and Modern-Day Slavery
by Timothy Alexander Guzman “Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt” Henrik Ibsen According to Oxford […]