Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles Around America | Ellen Brown
‘One Belt, One Road,’ a planned modern Silk Road with China at its heart Feb. 27, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking ...
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What Wall Street’s Critics Miss | David L. Bahnsen
The global finance industry makes for a convenient scapegoat, but its excesses are merely a symptom of our culture’s maladies. Photo: Charging Bull by Arturo Di Modica World News Trust Editor's ...
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Bitcoin Futures May Offer No Way Out | Stephen Gandel
Dec. 12, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin traders and watchers have been busy heralding the entrance of cryptocurrencies futures. What they should really be focused on is the exit. The first 24 hours of ...
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The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble | Bloomberg News Editors
Bitcoin is a poor currency and a crazy investment -- but the technology behind it is a real breakthrough. Nov. 30, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- An influential new recruit has joined the chorus of bitcoin ...
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The Dark Inevitability of Zionism | Lawrence Davidson
Among the growing assaults on freedom of speech is an Israeli-driven campaign to criminalize a campaign to boycott Israel over its racist persecution of Palestinians, writes Lawrence Davidson. Nov. ...
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On Repairing/Rebuilding 100,000+ Damaged Houses | Charles Hugh Smith
Texas National Guard soldiers arrive in Houston, Texas to aid citizens in heavily flooded areas from the storms of Hurricane Harvey. (Photos by Lt. Zachary West, 100th MPAD) Almost lost in all the ...
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How Antarctic ice melt can be a tipping point for the planet's climate | Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Peter Kershaw, Steven Phipps and Zoë Thomas
Melting Antarctic ice can trigger effects on the other side of the globe. Credit: NASA/Jane Peterson Sept. 13, 2017 (The Conversation) -- Melting of Antarctica's ice can trigger rapid warming on the ...
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Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning | Peter Coy and Christopher Flavelle
A family in Katy, just west of Houston, floats on an inflatable mattress. PHOTOGRAPHER: PHILIP MONTGOMERY FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Houston exulted in sprawling, hands-off growth. That’s no way to ...
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The Uninhabitable Earth | David Wallace-Wells
Fossils by Heartless Machine. In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal. And the ...
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Donald Trump And The Coming Fall Of The American Empire | Jeremy Scahill
Illustration: Elise Swain for The Intercept Famed historian Alfred McCoy interviewed by The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill July 22, 2017 (The Intercept) -- Even as President Donald Trump faces ...
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What We Need -- and Don’t Need -- From Government in the Robot Age | Michael R. Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg. Photo from chicagoideas.com/years/2012/speakersMichael R. Bloomberg on how to think about wages, health insurance, and education in the wake of technological advances. June 22, ...
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