I have become convinced that one must read widely in order to hope to take in anything resembling a balanced sense of what is happening in the world. News Trust helps me find varied viewpoints and the ratings further help me to sift each story for those grains of truth.
It is refreshing to read this story describing the fantasy that is the stock market. Too bad we've somehow allowed the ups and downs of this irrational process to drive so much public policy and to be used to determine the health of our nation. Talk about testosterone poisioning!
A complete waste of time and angst speculating on a process that may very well work in theory but could never be practical. No discussion of real-world complications here, just gee-whiz science.
This is an interesting piece, but the unbelievable comment near the end about the war being a success because of the "assured American geopolitical supremacy" cast doubt for me on every statement previous to that.
This story largely quotes from the hearings with little comment on the larger context, but having heard most of the hearing myself, I find it does a reasonably good job of summing up the tone and substance of that moment in the history of this issue.
Iraqi sources quoted extensively on the current state of affairs in Iraq and their reaction to Bush's announcement of a "surge" of troops. Important.
I give this story a relatively high rating for "informative" because it illustrates so well the twisted reasoning going on for continuing to discount the opinions of those in opposition to the Iraq war in spite of their increasingly obvious correctness. Otherwise, I agree with the "waste of ink" review.
It would be one thing to report on the findings of some researchers at Duke, but this story goes on to cherry-pick from other studies, leaving me with the distinct impression that there is an agenda being run, not information being dispensed.
