Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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His Own Worst Enemy (Robert Scheer)
The unctuous owl has hooted again. Only this time, Dick Cheney’s cave has been invaded by the sudden sunlight of judicial and congressional revelations, making him appear more pathetic than intimidat ...
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Most investors are heading for huge losses (Mark Faber)
As a keen observer of economic, social and financial trends, I think we are moving toward one of the most fascinating period in economic history. It will also be a time during which most investors wi ...
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Next: The real estate market freeze (Bill Fleckenstein)
As a result of the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, lenders will -- gasp! -- once again require down payments, filling the market with unsold homes and driving down prices.
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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 guardians ...
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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 Meso ...
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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 u ...
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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 ille ...
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The Vice President Of The United States Of America (Mr. Fish)
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