Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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A predator becomes more dangerous when wounded (Noam Chomsky)
Washingtons escalation of threats against Iran is driven by a determination to secure control of the regions energy resources.
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‘Corporate Hippies’ Seek Their Bliss in a New Environmental Economy (Felicity Barringer)
“I would call myself a corporate hippie,” she said. “I’m in the business of definitely caring for and supporting environmental growth and change for the better, but I also believe in the growth of ...
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Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning (John Michael Greer)
The Great Turning is anything but naive, and though it uses the rhetoric of Utopian fantasy it does so in pursuit of a far more pragmatic agenda.
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False reporting of peak oil (Byron King)
As is the case with much of what gets published in The New York Times, some of the information in the article is true. Yet, in a not-so-subtle manner, the Times article appears to diminish the ...
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The Failure of Reason (John Michael Greer)
Attempts to change the course of industrial civilization without changing the narratives and symbols that guide it on its way are doomed to failure. Behind this specific technical problem lies a ...
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Americans Have Lost Their Country (Paul Craig Roberts)
In a few short years, the Bush-Cheney regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions and the remains of America's moral reputation, along with the ...
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Magical Thinking (John Michael Greer)
Our society, like all others, picks and chooses among available technological options, implementing some and neglecting others.
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Global Systemic Crisis -- April 2007: Inflexion Point Of The Phase Of Impact (Leap/E2020)
U.S. economy enters recession.
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Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires (Matt Taibbi)
While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.
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TIC Tock (Stephen S. Roach)
The U.S. Treasury’s latest report on international capital flows came as a shocker.
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Homophobia & the war are not separate issues (lwfern)
White Capitalist Patriarchy + Power = Exploitation of everyone else
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