It's really interesting to watch the video reporting. But belief-based thoughts reign supreme everywhere...and truth is the casualty...

Good story, backed by interview of the ED of NewsTrust, on the NewsTrust's effort on fact-checking in the backdrop of the upcoming US prsidential election. The story elaborates the history and processes and engagement of the Truthsquad, the pilot for factchecking. We're hopeful to see a better factchecking effort to be successful.

Well, a good analytical piece on the positions of the GOP presidential candidates on clmate change. Readers can have an impression who thinks what regardless of the fact that who strategise how.

A good story that gives us to make informed choice. Yes, 'fact-checking is something of a growth market', and challeging as it was. But market-driven factchecking? Let's see. I'm optimistic, by the way.

The question the World Bank's poverty reduction expert raised is valid. However, he himself answered the question. The article's target is India, as I've understood it. Growth has been instrumental in reducing poverty and improving social outcomes in many countries, but poverty rates and social outcomes have not improved fast enough to reduce the total number of people living in misery in those countries. Actually, a development strategy that promotes growth first, and only then deals with human misery, is proved to be wrong.

Good review of 'The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science'. My opinion on this opinion piece is that causes behind believing and non-believing is not only biological but it has its roots in social norms of a given society, and of course it's has strong links with economics that governs our lives, politics and the establishments.

The world is so full of credible as well as junk science (and information) today that educates and as well does nothing but try to reinforce political agendas. Casual people not having the opportunity to truly educated in science (and in other disciplines) who are, in general, overconfident that they know. This excellent work explained the reason scientifically. Just opening up a debate centring this article (as I’ve seen, and read some of nearly thousand comments) confirms the proposition, again.

Enterprising article by Frederick Kaufman. He hits the bulls eye. Never in US history has one company wielded such destructive power over political economy, irrespective of whether a Republican or a Democrat happened to be president. At least the lords of the old built railroads and steel mills, where Goldman Sachs makes its money placing bets on people losing their homes, it's not surprising that they'll make money betting on food and water.

This is a good book review. Data can be selective and the extent of globalisation may be overstated. In this article, the blogger however gone too far the other way.

Yes, I'm with Jeff Goodell that the U.S. 'regulators are ignoring the risks and boosting industry profits.'

A good source of information about the series of deadly climatic shocks that attacked the U.S. recently. The video footage is good.

I do like to express my gratitude to Dan Murphy for the courteous report and for sharing his insights. Professionals always go to where there is something to do. Here a film to make or some conflict images to take, or some story to be told. In war stages and armed conflict, they are going risky also. Just like the soldiers, survival enables living for another day to fight or report or shoot or snap. It’s doing their jobs. We usually credit them with an extra measure of importance because they are willing to go where so many will not. All these men and women are aware of the risks involved and have balanced their mental books as to the worth of their participation and commitment. The loss of any one of them, troops or ... More »

Balanced piece of story packed by reliable data on Peak Oil scenario. Price escalation is a natural consequence when there's a forecasted dearth in supply of crude in terms of global demand.

A story about what German newspapers like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, and Süddeutsche Zeitung take a closer look at the Standard & Poor's decision on U.S. recently. I'm not sure whether it's a 'news analysis' or editorials/opinions.

Thinking is the enemy of innovatio? Great thinking! Vaughan Spencer, a notable British management thinker speaks. Good to watch and review.

A good analytical report. It prodives us an opportunity to look through thorough how people pay taxes and why people don't, at all. If wealth and political influence tend to arise from the same source, i.e., superior ideas, leadership skills, etc then there's a very good chance of disproportionate influence of tax-dodging for the wealthy is a good thing. But, I'm afraid, it's not the case.

This Observer story seeks to know what effect the Internet has on religion. I think, it's not a bad idea. It can be a research project either. An opinion piece on this is a narrow escape.

Good discussion on Joseph Stiglitz's article in Vanity Fair.

Good blog post by Swampland of TIME. It discusses many points of the budget.

Mr. Ryan's budget blueprint is almost certainly dead on arrival in the upper chamber. But just a day after a bloc of 59 Republicans rebelled over the budget deal brokered by House Speaker John Boehner, the vote hands House Republicans a symbolic victory.

Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, passed a law in 2002 to shutter nuke plants in Germany gradually, with the country to be nuclear free by 2022. But Merkel reversed this phase-out. Now, she is scrambling to reverse the reversal.

Good opinion piece by Paul D. Miller. Yes, historical analogies are sloppy thinking, and comparisons must be premature, at least, at this moment.