Harvard Scholar Naomi Oreskes – The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All (Long Read)

"It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time," writes Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University (Nov. 13th, 2019)

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Billionaires Declare OPEN War on Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders

"The exceedingly wealthy are usually content to stay in the shadows while their combined financial leverage and media power keep top government officials more or less in line. But the grassroots strengths of the Warren and Sanders campaigns have jolted some key oligarchs into overt action," writes Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy and RootsAction.org (Nov. 13th, 2019)

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The Great Game of Trade (Quick review by University of Cambridge scholar Diane Coyle)

"I was persuaded by the Hardings’ argument that the current global situation is very dangerous, threatening economic stability, environmental sustainability and peace. The slow growth or worse will encourage the trends toward populism and authoritarianism, and a spiral into more protectionism," writes Diane Coyle, Professor at the University of Cambridge (Nov. 13th, 2019)

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