Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Phony Fraud Charges (New York Times Editorial)
In its fumbling attempts to explain the purge of United States attorneys, the Bush administration has argued that the fired prosecutors were not aggressive enough about addressing voter fraud. It is ...
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Damn Right, We're Angry (Paul Waldman)
We can’t deny it any longer. There’s no point in hiding it, no point in trying to explain it away. Yes, it’s true: We progressives are angry. And we no longer care if the centrist, moderate ...
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The Seymour Hersh Mystery: A Journalist Writing Bloody Murder… (Tom Engelhardt)
To summarize, if Hersh is to be believed -- and as a major journalistic figure for the last near-40 years he certainly deserves to be taken seriously -- the Bush administration seems to be repeating ...
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Is America Headed for a Depression? (Bill Cara)
Yes, I believe there will be a U.S. economic recession, but the elements are now in place for the first time in 80 years for America to sink into a depression. Should a depression unfold, there will ...
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Iraq talks could pave road home for America (Robert Fisk)
The Iranian- Syrian- U.S.- Iraqi talks in Baghdad at the weekend might -- and it's a very flimsy "might" -- be the beginning of America's road home from its disastrous invasion and occupation of ...
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Netanyahu and Meshal forever (Gideon Levy)
In fact, this is the real "big bang": The political map of Israel has been upended. There is no longer right and left, no more hawks and doves. The center, the right and the margins of the left are ...
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10-Point Plan for Rebuilding the United States after Bush's Destruction (Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.)
9. Consider the possibility that the Republican ideology contravenes the Constitution because its policies and beliefs endanger the well-being of the people. Consider making the Republican Party ...
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Portland Report (Tom Whipple)
Last week Portland, Oregon became the first governmental body in the United States to not only acknowledge that imminent peak oil is a reality, but also to publish a plan as to what the city should ...
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The Amphetamine of the Intellectuals (John Michael Greer)
One of the most inescapable dimensions of the crisis of industrial society is the hard fact that six and a half billion people now live on a planet that can support, at most, two billion ...
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Stocks to Weather Subprime Crisis, Credit Suisse Says (Alexis Xydias)
Stocks worldwide will weather a surge in U.S. subprime loan defaults because earnings growth and a robust labor market are enough to sustain the world's largest economy, according to Credit Suisse ...
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