On February 17, US President Barack Obama laid down the law to China’s leaders to stop expanding their military presence in the South China Sea. They didn’t listen. Obama met with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at Sunnylands, California, and then later told reporters, “We discussed the need for tangible steps in the South China Sea to...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy of supporting ISIS/Islamic State forces waging war against Syria, while cracking down anew against the huge Kurdish minority of 20 million people in the eastern part of his country, will dramatically escalate death and destruction throughout the region. Erdogan’s air force generals also pleased neocon warmongers in the Obama administration when they shot down...

Gerald Celente’s “Trends This Week,” a weekly show on the Progressive Radio Network, PRN.fm, airs live each Wednesday at 11 a.m. Trends This Week breaks down essential trends in economics, geopolitics, health and well-being, pop culture and more in classic Celente style. And, if you can’t catch the show live, you can listen 24/7 by accessing Trends This Week in the archives section of...

Fiat Chrysler unveiled its 2017 Chrysler Pacifica at the North American International Auto Show, sparking plenty of chatter about the future of the minivan, that vessel of all-American families that rose in popularity during the 1990s. First, a little history. Though automakers, especially Ford, attempted in the 1970s to market economy vans to families, the true modern minivan began taking...

The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has cracked the code on drawing millennials into the museum. Once each month, the institute hosts Science After Hours, an adults-only party with booze. Events are themed: One month you might get an education in the science of bootlegging alcohol; during the next, it’s the science of animation company Pixar. Of course, the Franklin Institute...

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The Oxford Dictionary announced that its “Word of the Year” for 2015 was the “Tears of Joy” emoji. That’s correct: a yellow cartoon smiley face with blue tears emerging from the eyes is the word of the year. Emoji are ubiquitous these days. The emoji evolved from emoticons, those primitive computer keystrokes indicating emotions like happiness, goofiness and anger. Today,...

Global master forecaster Gerald Celente is joined by geopolitical powerhouse Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and natural-healing icon Gary Null in a riveting, enthralling five-hour video filmed in front of a live audience and released recently by the Trends Research Institute at this link. “Celente, Roberts, Null” brings together three fearless and powerful analytic thinkers in a sweeping exploration of essential trend...

While solar and wind get the glamour in alternative energy, the US Department of Energy isn’t neglecting the power of water. It’s investing $10.5 million in projects that will refine technologies able to make electricity from ocean currents, tidal swells and the flow of rivers. Meanwhile, the Ocean Renewable Power Company has connected its water-power generator in Alaska’s Kvichak River...

First cell phones, now electricity. The companies Enel Green Power and Powerhive have partnered in a privately funded venture to build $12 million in solar-powered mini-electric grids for 100 villages in Kenya. The venture will bring electricity to about 90,000 people. TRENDPOST: Decentralized power systems are allowing undeveloped areas, especially in the Third World, to leapfrog the stage of industrialization...