Declaring Palestine: Revisiting Hope and Failure (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 8, 2011 -- When late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat read the Declaration of the Palestinian Independence just over 22 years ago, Palestinians everywhere wer ...

Once Upon a Time (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 2, 2010 -- As we approach the new year we must reflect, times are hard. The wars go on unabated, our people struggle unassisted, Wall Street continues on unmo ...

The Collapse Of Human Civilization As We Know It -- Scenarios And Potential Solutions (Dale Tavris)

Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Dec. 1, 2010 -- Human civilization as we know it will come to an end in the foreseeable future. We don’t know exactly when or how. It may be soon. It ...

Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 30, 2010 -- When the Iraqi army fell before invading U.S. and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years afte ...

BOOKS: Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’ (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2010 -- When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, fe ...

Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization (Tariel Mórrígan)

Global Climate Change, Human Security & Democracy -- Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies University of California, Santa Barbara -- October 2010 Nov. 21, 2010 -- This is the final chapt ...

Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)

Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...

Land of the Food Insecure: Record Rates of Hunger in US

Nov. 16, 2010 (BBC News) -- Almost 15 percent of US households experienced a food shortage at some point in 2009, a government report has found. US authorities say that figure is the highest they hav ...

Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab (Scott Thill)

Nov. 2, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast Asia ...

New Report Refutes Industry Argument that Genetically Modified Salmon will Feed Hungry World Populations (Food and Water Watch Europe)

Nov. 4, 2010 -- BRUSSELS (Food and Water Watch Europe) -- Food & Water Europe released a report today outlining why the genetically engineered salmon currently being considered by the U.S. Food and D ...

Nine Months After the Quake - a Million Haitians Slowly Dying (Bill Quigley)

Oct. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- "If it gets any worse," said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, "we're not going to survive." Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. We ...