The mainstream media continually hypes the authority of “experts,” i.e. people with a stack of credentials from top institutions. But does the mainstream media ever check on whether the “experts” got anything right? Let’s compare the “experts” (conventional PhD economists)

Short, intense directed apprenticeships that teach students how to learn on their own to mastery are the future of higher education. So it turns out sitting in a chair for four years doesn’t deliver mastery in anything but the acquisition

That the status quo–the current pyramid of wealth and power dominated by the few at the top–has failed is self-evident, but we can’t bear to talk about it.This is not just the result of a corporate media that serves up

‘The announcement that underground coal gasification (UCG) company Five-Quarter Energy is being wound up, after 8 years of trying to raise money to set fire to coal seams under the coast of Northumberland, will be a welcome relief to anyone with any interest in the ecological or social fabric of these islands. Five-Quarter wanted to […]

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‘Britain’s sophisticated air-to-surface Brimstone missiles have not killed any terrorists in Syria so far, although at least nine missiles have been fired. A single missile using radar homing and laser guidance technology costs £100,000. The Huffington Post UK made a freedom of information (FOI) request to the British Defense Ministry and discovered the much-touted Brimstone […]

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If we collectively choose wishful thinking, catastrophic consequences are guaranteed. Wishful thinking has been an integral driver of the “recovery” 2009-2015: asset bubbles aren’t bubbles, central bank policies are brilliantly successful, unemployment has dropped to levels of full employment, and

If we collectively choose wishful thinking, catastrophic consequences are guaranteed. Wishful thinking has been an integral driver of the “recovery” 2009-2015: asset bubbles aren’t bubbles, central bank policies are brilliantly successful, unemployment has dropped to levels of full employment, and

‘Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner says that Europe’s passport-free travel system in the 26-country Schengen area may collapse. Mikl-Leitner made the comment following an eight-hour-long EU interior ministers meeting held in the Dutch capital Amsterdam, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. The talks were held over the possible extension of national border controls in the Schengen […]

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‘Last night I watched The Big Short — maybe the most important Hollywood film in years. This true story is a powerful and eloquent invitation to wake up to the sheer depravity at the core of the system of commerce. The fact that the film got nominated for 5 Oscars including Best Picture is a […]

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‘Prime Minister David Cameron has cited national security as a key reason for Britain remaining in the EU following the Paris terror attacks. The PM, who attended a meeting of EU leaders on Thursday evening, told journalists in Brussels on Friday he had made “good progress” on his four demands for change. However Cameron admitted […]

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‘It is essential that we get off the chemical treadmill that the modern industrial urban-centric food and agriculture system is based on. It is essential in terms of our health, the environment and sustainability and not least in terms of food security and supporting rural economies and smallholder farmers, who comprise the backbone of global […]

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‘“He needed a moment to assuage donor fears and it backfired. As much as people may say the Bush name is a hindrance, the reality is that his last name is the only thing keeping him in the conversation right now.” — South Carolina Republican operative Ouch. That pretty much sums up all the reviews […]

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‘United Kingdom officials are beginning to recognize that cannabis prohibition is a costly mistake. A recent UK Treasury study revealed that cannabis prohibition has been a failure and that legalization could increase the country’s tax revenue derived from regulated marijuana sales. The results were submitted to BBC’s Newsnight, but the study was never published and […]

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‘Members of a failed inquiry into historic child sex abuse shared more than £150,000, SunNation can reveal. The massive sum of taxpayer’s cash was handed to people who sat on the chaotic probe – without producing any public findings. It was set up by Home Secretary Theresa May in July 2014 to investigate how state […]

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‘A U.K.-based agricultural research organization recently threw away nearly $5 million on a failed field trial of experimental, genetically-modified (GM) wheat. Rothamsted Research says it is “disappointed” that the transgenic crop, known as “whiffy wheat,” utterly failed to deter aphids, succumbing to the same amount of insect damage as real wheat. The company is blaming […]

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