Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Extreme Vetting, But Not for Banks | Matt Taibbi
Trump proves he is a tool for Wall Street after all Feb. 3, 2017 (Rolling Stone) -- Donald Trump, the man who positioned himself as the common man's shield against Wall Street, signed a series of ...
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Get Ready For The First Shocks Of Trump's Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein
Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 29, 2005. (NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Jan. 24, 2017 (The Intercept) -- We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, ...
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Building the Institutions for Revolt | Chris Hedges
Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan. 15, 2017 (Truthdig) -- Politics is a game of fear. Those who do not have the ability to make power elites afraid do not succeed. All of the movements that opened up the ...
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We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump | Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect ...
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Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here | Cornel West
Cornel West by DW Nance. Taken during the #BernieInAL Rally with Bernie Sanders in Birmingham on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 18, 2016. (CC BY-SA 4.0)Trump’s election was enabled by the policies ...
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It’s Worse Than You Think | Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges. Photo by Chris Graham. ucobserver.orgNov. 11, 2016 (TruthDig.org) -- Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when ...
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The Rejection of Hillary’s Wall Street Globalization Project | Diana Johnstone
Hillary Clinton official Secretary of State portraitNov. 9, 2016 (CounterPunch.org) -- “There’s no place like home.” That’s the lesson. Even when home is Kansas. The real meaning of this election is ...
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The U.S. Department of Clinton | Kimberly Strassel
The latest emails show that State and the foundation were one seamless entity Aug. 25, 2016 (Wall Street Journal) -- This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary ...
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Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition | Caleb A. Scharf
NASA/JPL/U. of Arizona Our species just stepped into a cosmic future, yet we still starve and fight each other Feb. 18, 2016 (Scientific American) -- The announcement of the first detection of ...
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Nine Lessons From Third Avenue's Liquidation | Mohamed A. El-Erian
Dec. 13, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- Third Avenue attracted considerable attention last week with the announcement that it would restrict withdrawals from its high-yield Focused Credit Fund. And rightly so: ...
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ExxonMobil Warns of Catastrophic 7°F to 12°F Global Warming Without Government Action | Joe Romm
Planet Hell. By suicidecrew. DeviantArt. Dec. 7, 2015 (ClimateProgress) -- It’s a Through-The-Looking-Glass world. The Washington Post reports Sunday that ExxonMobil has a far saner view of global ...
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