Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Ferguson's Grand Jury Problem | Noah Feldman
St. Louis County prosecutors should have seen this coming. Photographer: Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images Nov. 25, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- When was the last time you heard of a grand jury decision caus ...
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William S. Burroughs performing A Thanksgiving Prayer
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The West Is On The Wrong Path | Gabor Steingart, publisher, Handelsblatt
Gabor SteingartAug. 8, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Finally an independent voice has come out of Europe. The publisher of Germany’s most important newspaper has criticized both the German press for ...
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Washington’s Iron Curtain in Ukraine | Diana Johnstone
Tightening the U.S. Grip on Western Europe June 8, 2014 (CounterPunch.org) -- NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Rus ...
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Grand Geopolitical Project: Russia’s Gazprom signs Agreement to Abandon the Dollar | Umberto Pascali
June 7, 2014 GlobalResearch.ca “It’s only the tip of the iceberg. A grand geopolitical project is beginning to materialize…” On June 6, 2014, the official Russian news agency Itar Tass announced what ...
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This Is Not A 'Healthy Correction': The Mother Of All Financial Bubbles Is Beginning To Crack | David Stockman
April 13, 2014 (David Stockman's Contra Corner) -- Wolf Richter is one of the most astute observers of our bubble-ridden/central bank perverted financial scene around. His blog called Testosterone Pi ...
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Nasdaq Halts Trading in Stocks, Options Amid ‘Issue’ | Sam Mamudi
Aug. 22, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- Computer breakdowns shook American equity markets again today as malfunctioning software that feeds data between exchanges prompted Nasdaq Stock Market to halt trading in ...
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Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. | Daniel Ellsberg
July 7, 2013 (Washington Post) -- Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.” He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act as well as for theft and cons ...
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Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Matt Taibbi
Illustration by Victor Juhasz April 25, 2013 ( Rolling Stone) -- Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe ...
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When Zombies Invade, Who Do You Want for President? | Jeffrey Goldberg
Illustration by Ted McGrath Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- And so we are finally here, and not a moment too soon. Every insult has been hurled, every fact misrepresented; positions have been shifted and ...
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Wall Street Rolling Back Another Key Piece of Financial Reform | Matt Taibbi
A manhole cover in Jefferson County, Alabama. Reuters/Marvin Gentry/Landov Sept. 20, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- Wall Street lobbyists are awesome. I’m beginning to develop a begrudging respect not just ...
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