Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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A Terrible Ambivalence (John Michael Greer)
Sept. 9, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- I’d meant to spend this week’s report talking about scarcity industrialism, the kind of economy that will be defined for us in the near future by the conjunction o ...
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Sick and Wrong (Matt Taibbi)
How Washington is screwing up health care reform – and why it may take a revolt to fix it Sept 3, 2009 (Rolling Stone) -- Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest h ...
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Cheney’s Tortured Logic (Jonathan Alter)
Sept. 4, 2009 (Newsweek) -- Dick Cheney is in retirement, a cable nuisance but not a political threat to President Obama -- unless there's another terrorist attack. In that case, Cheney will no doubt ...
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What is the CIA Still Hiding about Interrogations? (Nat Hentoff)
Sept. 4, 2009 (Billings Gazette) -- A fierce debate will long continue to swirl around former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's long-delayed 2004 report (sprung by an American Civil Liberties Un ...
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Prediction of the United States collapse in 2010 (Wikipedia)
(Wikipedia) -- In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society supplied to him by fellow analysts at FAPSI, Russian professor and political scientist I ...
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TOON: The Citizens Began To Turn Into Monsters (This Modern World)
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/09/01/tomo/index.html
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The Myth of the Black Swan (Hale "Bonddad" Stewart)
Aug. 27, 2009 (Huffington Post) -- The most common argument made against people who see a recovery emerging is that we are in the middle of uncharted waters where the traditional rules of economic an ...
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Entropy Gets No Respect (John Michael Greer)
Archdruid John Michael Greer Aug. 26, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- The relation between modern industrial society and the scientific ideas that supposedly guide it is more complex than a casual glance ...
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This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428% Chances that ...
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Quenching a Thirst for Learning (Katherine Jamieson)
Aug. 23, 2009 (New York Times) -- I’m an adjunct professor, one of hundreds of thousands in an overeducated, unmoored, disposable work force staffing a majority of the nation’s colleges and universit ...
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Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse? (Paul Kinsnorth & George Monbiot)
Aug. 17, 2009 (Guardian) -- The collapse of civilisation will bring us a saner world, says Paul Kingsnorth. No, counters George Monbiot -- we can't let billions perish. Dear George On the desk in fro ...
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