Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now (Naomi Klein)
I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others c ...
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Attorneys General Settlement: The Next Big Bank Bailout? (Matt Taibbi)
A foreclosure sign hangs on a fence in front of a foreclosed home in Richmond, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Oct. 5, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Amidst all the bad news coming out of Wall Stre ...
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Occupy Together: The Best Among (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Sept. 30, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or yo ...
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace (Chris Hedges)
Sept. 19, 2011 (Truthdig) -- Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, play ...
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The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass (Matt Taibbi)
The entrance to UBS headquarters in Zurich. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images Sept. 15, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The news that a "rogue trader" (I hate that term -- more on that in a moment) has soake ...
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American Decline: Causes and Consequences (Noam Chomsky)
US soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter. (Photo: AFP - Johannes Eisele) Aug. 26, 2011 (al- ...
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Amnesty for the Indefensible (Robert Scheer)
Aug. 23, 2011 (TruthDig) -- They will get away with it, at least in this life. “They” are the Wall Street usurers, people of a sort condemned in Scripture, who have brought more misery to this nation ...
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Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 1 (William D. Cohan)
Illustration by Ian Michael Rousey & Chris Nosenzo Aug. 7, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- What will it take for Americans to finally get the message that much of Wall Street, in its current form, is a corrupt e ...
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Economy Close to Stall Speed May Signal Renewed U.S. Recession (Peter Coy)
Aug. 3, 20111 (Bloomberg) -- Economics isn’t rocket science, but the U.S. economy is a little like a rocket. If it has enough thrust, it can escape the tug of economic gravity. Not enough, and it jus ...
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Next Up: Pakistan -- Ominous signs of a major new war (Justin Raimondo)
July 11, 2011 (AntiWar.com) -- I see someone besides myself has noticed all the “leaking” going on in the upper echelons of Washington over our rocky relationship with Pakistan. Suddenly Islamabad is ...
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How the bubble destroyed the middle class (Rex Nutting)
Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money July 8, 2011 (MarketWatch) -- A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the 9+ ...
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