After one century of public relations, we march in lockstep | Mickey Z.

Image by AK Rockefeller, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 11, 2017 “As force is always on side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion.” - Davi ...

Donald Trump And The Coming Fall Of The American Empire | Jeremy Scahill

Illustration: Elise Swain for The Intercept Famed historian Alfred McCoy interviewed by The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill July 22, 2017 (The Intercept) -- Even as President Donald Trump faces ever-inten ...

A long overdue ‘thank you’ to Spielberg for helping me get my first book deal | Mickey Z.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 15, 2016 “We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow orders!” - Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) The Museum of the Moving Image ...

Increasing likelihood of extreme sea levels | Thomas Wahl

A family is evacuated during the great storm of 1953. Credit: Canterbury City Council July 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists at the University of Southampton are warning that future coastal impact stu ...

Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030 | AFP

June 30, 2017 (AFP) -- Japan has revealed ambitious plans to put an astronaut on the Moon around 2030 in new proposals from the country's space agency. This is the first time the Japan Aerospace Expl ...

Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos | Quaternary Science Reviews

The sea level rise and the colossal amounts of meltwater discharged from the collapsing ice sheet meant that areas that previously were land eventually became seabed. Britain and Ireland, which had b ...

Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership | Timothy L. O'Brien

Donald Trump (ABC News) An insider describes the Bayrock Group, its links to the Trump family and its mysterious access to funds. It isn't pretty. June 21, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- The special counsel’s i ...

This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp | US Sen Angus King (I-ME)

U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-ME) official portrait 113th CongressSenator Angus King is the latest in a long line of thoughtful Maine lawmakers. He talked to us about the Russia probe. June 18, 2017 (Bloom ...

Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known | Michael Riley & Jordan Robertson

Image from: money.cnn.com/2016/10/31/technology/internet-attack-election-day/index.html Attackers said to take measure of voting systems, databases A ‘red phone’ warning to the Kremlin from Obama Whi ...

Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth's past | Alfred Wegener Institute

A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia, Public Domain June 1, 2017 (Phys.org) -- During the last glacial period -- when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offsh ...

CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations | Stephen Tsang and Laszlo T. Bito

CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 (white) from Staphylococcus aureus based on Protein Database ID 5AXW. Credit: Thomas Splettstoesser (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) May 29, 2017 (Phys.org) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 ...