Commentary -- WNT Reports

Lost on a Fearless Plain (Joe Bageant)

Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust May 12, 2010 AJIJIIC, Mexico -- I've spent most of his week watching American television and movies. I leave the TV on all night long. I toss and turn with my bad back, and bad lungs, catch a rerun episode of Two and a Half Men, or CSI, and conk out again. Then I awaken to the U.S. morning talk shows. It's a grueling regimen, only for the strong. Or the ...

Read more...

Honk If You Love Caviar! (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe, Hopkins Village, BelizeUnderstanding America's Class System Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2010 How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Che ...

Read more...
What RBG Taught Us About Justice | Mickey Z.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Photo from the collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Mickey Z. -- World News Trust September 19, 2020 On Friday evening, Sept. 18, 2020, I was sitting at my desk, ...

Read more...
Kenny’s Corolla | Mickey Z.

Pinterest screenshot Mickey Z. -- World News Trust September 18, 2020 When you pass a stranger on the street, there’s no telling what unique talent they may possess. For example, they might be a wiza ...

Read more...
‘Palestine is Still the Issue’: UN Vote Exposes, Isolates Canada | Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo

Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo -- World News Trust Aug. 13, 2020 The notion that "Canada is better" -- especially when its foreign policy is compared with that of the Uni ...

Read more...
The Puzzle Pieces Fit (a 9/11 story) | Mickey Z.

The two blue pillars of light provide a visual reminder of how the Twin Towers, destroyed in the attacks of September 11, 2001, once stood above the city skyline. Photo credit: Associated Press Micke ...

Read more...
Remembering the 9/11 Jumpers: When is a Suicide Not a Suicide? | Mickey Z.

screenshot Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2020 Discussions of suicide and violent death to follow. *** “The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you ...

Read more...
The Other 9/11 (and That Time I Gave a Lecture at MIT) | Mickey Z.

Photo by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 4, 2020 Preface: I’ve written (several times) about the “other 9/11” in 1973 Chile. I’ve also written once about my related MIT talk in 2003. To ...

Read more...
Me and Bruce Springsteen | Mickey Z.

Image source: Bruce Springsteen's Instagram account Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 1, 2020 You could say I started writing this story a long, long time ago, but… the actual genesis of it reachin ...

Read more...
Some Conspiracies Are Real (part 2): Iraq, Kuwait, and Imaginary Incubators | Mickey Z.

Image from TrueActivist.com Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 29, 2020 So far, the year 2020 has been sort of a grand unified compilation of centuries worth of conspiracies and theories. But I’m n ...

Read more...
Paying Attention on the N Train | Mickey Z.

Photo by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 28, 2020 I recently went five months without getting on the NYC subway — easily the longest such gap since I began riding regularly at 14 years ...

Read more...