Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC I. WAR IS A RACKET WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most viciou ...
Occult vibrations 1600 block of Lamont Street, NW. By rockcreek, Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)May 30, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- It so happens that last week’s post on reading books by dead people had a curi ...
Mr. Fish / Truthdig May 20, 2018 (Truthdig) -- The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, ...
"Trump." By IoSonoUnaFotoCamera. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)May 18, 2018 (The Week) -- Another week in the Donald Trump presidency, another handful of days so stuffed full of sordid and highly complicated ...
Roy Cohn in 1986, a few months before he died. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onet ...
Donald Trump (left) and Kim Jong Un. Images lifted from Al Jazeera (credit: Reuters) If they manage to achieve peace in Korea, they’ll be genuine heroes, whatever else they are. April 27, 2018 (Bloom ...
Above: An excellent example of a well-managed strategic retreat from the coast occurred in 1999 when the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks was moved 2,900 feet back from an ero ...
In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Elliot Harmon -- Electronic Frontier Foundation March 21, 2018 Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. ...
Stephen Hawking. Lwp Kommunikáció/Flickr, CC BY-SA March 15, 2018 (The Conversation) -- Rumour has it that Albert Einstein spent his last few hours on Earth scribbling something on a piece of paper i ...
Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...
‘One Belt, One Road,’ a planned modern Silk Road with China at its heart Feb. 27, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking o ...
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