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Time to Pay Attention: 8 Men Have as Much Money as Half the Entire World

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. A startling figure has just been released showing the ever-widening gap in wealth between the world’s upper echelons and nearly everyone else — the eight richest men on the planet…

After the WaPost’s Latest Shot, It’s Time to Call ‘Fake News’ By Its Real Name ‘Weaponized Journalism’

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Defying any sense of journalistic integrity and loyalty to the truth, the Washington Post did it again — publishing Fake News for clicks — which had the desired effect of…

Landmark Study: Pot Smoke Doesn’t Cause Strokes, But Tobacco Does and Weed Can Stop It

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. We know it may seem counter-intuitive to what we already know about tobacco, but a steady stream of scientific research is revealing some surprising conclusions about cannabis. The latest research,…

Mainstream Science Finally Admits Vitamin C’s Ability to Cure Cancer is Not a Conspiracy Theory

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Albert Szent-Györgyi discovered the chemical, ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C, in the 1930s. One of Vitamin C’s chief advocates, who won twice the Nobel (Chemistry and Peace), was…

The FBI Paid Best Buy’s ‘Geek Squad’ to Spy on Americans

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. If you’ve ever taken your computer in for service at the GEEK Squad inside your local Best Buy, then you know when you hand over your laptop to the technician,…

If Dr. King Were Alive Today He’d Still be Arrested, Like He was Dozens of Times Before

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Nearly 49 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., his struggle for peace lives on. Alabama State troopers attack civil-rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965When most…

BREAKING: Ringling Bros. Circus to Close After 146 Years and Numerous Allegations of Abuse & Neglect

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. After 146 years of animal performances, clowns, and side shows, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will stop all performances — forever — as of May. A number of…