A call to add a well-being index to national economic measures | Bob Yirka

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 19, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A trio of economists is suggesting that it is time to add a well-being index to national economic measures. Carol Graham with the Brookings Insti ...

Green Zone Amerika | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 21, 2018 After our nation illegally/immorally invaded and destroyed much of Iraq, we set up a mega city for our new embassy. The Bush g ...

Heroes... And Villains | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 16, 2018 How many realize that in 1933, upon reaching power in Germany, Adolf Hitler received more fan letters than both the Beatles an ...

Network 2018 | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 12, 2018 Forty-two years ago director Sidney Lumet brought to the big screen Paddy Chayefsky's brilliant story of Network. This great s ...

The Two Party Food Fight | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 8, 2018 File: Yoo memo.pdf: The Torture Memos, sometimes called the Bybee Memo or 8/1/02 Interrogation Opinion, was a term originally a ...

Oblivious to Empire | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 6, 2018 If one studies many of Alfred Hitchcock's films, there is a consistent observation by the director about the public in general. ...

Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist win Nobel Peace Prize for combating sexual violence | Nerijus Adomaitis, Terje Solsvik

Combination picture shows the Nobel Prize for Peace 2018 winners./REUTERS Oct. 5, 2018 -- OSLO (Reuters) -- Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of ...

Caveman Amerika | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 29, 2018 Our nation has become like the character in the 1960 rock song Alley Oop: "He's the toughest man there is alive, Alley Oop, W ...

Drugged!! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 20, 2018 You don't have to be a genius sometimes to just "connect the dots." Since 2012, Big Pharma ads for prescription drugs, especi ...

Overheard at the Fat Cats Club | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 16, 2018 Being a "fly on the wall" is not such a bad thing... unless of course you get swatted. Listen to what this fly overheard at t ...

Amerika: One Big Commercial | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 11, 2018 I love sports. Since I was a young kid, I can remember, vividly, sitting in our living room, circa 1960, on a Sunday afternoo ...