Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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War Is A Racket | Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC I. WAR IS A RACKET WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most ...
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On Occult Literature: A Diversion of Sorts | John Michael Greer
Occult vibrations 1600 block of Lamont Street, NW. By rockcreek, Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)May 30, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- It so happens that last week’s post on reading books by dead people had a ...
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The Coming Collapse | Chris Hedges
Mr. Fish / Truthdig May 20, 2018 (Truthdig) -- The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, ...
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The mind-boggling corruption of Trump Inc. | Ryan Cooper
"Trump." By IoSonoUnaFotoCamera. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)May 18, 2018 (The Week) -- Another week in the Donald Trump presidency, another handful of days so stuffed full of sordid and highly complicated ...
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The Original Donald Trump | Frank Rich
Roy Cohn in 1986, a few months before he died. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, ...
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A Nobel Prize for Trump and Kim Is No Joke | Leonid Bershidsky
Donald Trump (left) and Kim Jong Un. Images lifted from Al Jazeera (credit: Reuters) If they manage to achieve peace in Korea, they’ll be genuine heroes, whatever else they are. April 27, 2018 ...
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BOOKS: Retreat From a Rising Sea | Dr. Jeff Masters
Above: An excellent example of a well-managed strategic retreat from the coast occurred in 1999 when the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks was moved 2,900 feet back from an ...
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How Congress Censored the Internet | Elliot Harmon
In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Elliot Harmon -- Electronic Frontier Foundation March 21, 2018 Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. ...
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Stephen Hawking pinned his hopes on ‘M-theory’ to fully explain the universe -- here’s what it is | Lorenzo Bianchi
Stephen Hawking. Lwp Kommunikáció/Flickr, CC BY-SA March 15, 2018 (The Conversation) -- Rumour has it that Albert Einstein spent his last few hours on Earth scribbling something on a piece of paper ...
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What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya
Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...
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