Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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The ‘First Scientist’s’ 800-Year-Old Tonic For What Ails Us: The Truth | Richard Gunderman
William Blake -- Visionary Heads of Friar Roger Bacon and Poet Gray May 1, 2020 (The Conversation) -- It seems that science has been taking a beating lately. From decades of denial by the tobacco ...
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What the Pandemic Revealed: a Morally Bankrupt Culture | Charles Hugh Smith
Monopolies, quasi-monopolies and cartels are inherently exploitive and thus evil. May 1, 2020 (OfTwoMinds.com) -- What was "normal" for the past two decades was to turn a blind eye to the moral and ...
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Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy | Jennifer Grygiel
July 24, 2019 (The Conversation) -- As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But ...
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The Worlds We Live In | John Michael Greer
Photo: kraftrecipes.comMarch 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m sure many of my readers noticed that last month’s posts were talking about the same thing from two different angles. The first of those ...
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Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea | Milton Ezrati
(Editor's note: I selected this story to provide some perspective to Ellen Brown's more recent story: "A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work." I don't claim to have any big answers, ...
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The Suffocation of Democracy | Christopher R. Browning
Donald Trump at the First In Nation Republican Leadership Summit, Nashua, New Hampshire. Photo by Michael Vadon, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Oct. 25, 2018 Issue (The New York Review of Books) -- As a ...
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A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany | Zack Beauchamp
Mitch McConnell“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.” Oct. 5, 2018 (Vox.com) -- Usually, comparisons between ...
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A Farewell to Norms | Milton Mueller
Credit: Derek Bridges, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Milton Mueller -- Internet Governance Project Sept. 4, 2018 “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to ...
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Journalists Are Not The Enemy | Boston Globe Editorial Board
Source: celebrationscakedecorating.comAug. 15, 2018 (Boston Globe) -- A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as ...
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Was the 2016 election legitimate? It's now definitely worth asking the question | Virginia Heffernan
Credit: Talking Points MemoJuly 28, 2018 (Los Angeles Times) -- We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president. There’s been a code of silence around President ...
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Russia and the far right’s cozy affair | E.J. Dionne Jr.
Image: Los Angeles TimesJuly 29, 2018 (Washington Post) -- The links among Vladimir Putin, President Trump, and segments of both the Republican Party and the American conservative movement seem ...
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