Children

PILLOW TALK: Green Screen Girls (Deborah Goodwin)

Yes, girls, I know that I am so lame, but you asked me when I would blog about you! Feb. 18, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I have two beautiful, brilliant, fantastic daughters who are, thankfully, remarkably confident and happy teenagers (well, pre-teen in the younger daughter's case, not that you'd know it). We moved to Vermont from New York for the girls' benefits, or so we said, b...

Life Outside the Box: #DeOccupyBinaryThinking (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” --Banksy Feb. 13, 2012 -- As we bear witness to the current version of America’s pres...
Anti-Semitism and Israel’s Inherent Contradictions (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2012 -- In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as "anti-Semitic." He also denounced Arab K...
Welcome To Happy Valley: Occupy Penn State,(Carolyn Baker)

Nov. 17, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, is ensconsed in a somewhat bucolic region of the commonwealth called Happy Valley. The name exquisitely...
UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)

Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and insp...
Ibrahim Zaza: The Gaza Boy Newspapers Omitted (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 28, 2011 --“Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition ... we need people...
SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record (Justin Pope)

Sept. 14, 2011 (AP) -- SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995. The College Board, w...
The Miserable Ones (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2011 -- I’m going to tell you a story today, it’s a story about you and me and it’s a story about a father and son. In a larger sense it’s a story about...
Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? (Noam Chomsky)

Aug. 9, 2011 -- (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid privatizatio...
Confused Strategy: How the PA Sold Out Palestinian Unity (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 13, 2011 --If you happen to be a Palestinian government employee, chances are you will receive only half your usual salary this month. The other half will only b...
One Missile, One Playground: The Will of Gaza (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 8, 2011 -- GAZA --A “Hamas commander” drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the passenger seat. The v...
Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 25, 2011 --Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occup...
The Guiding Principle (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2011 -- It has been about a month since my rescue from the street. I quickly became sissified, sanctified, civilized and satisfied. I am plagued thoug...
Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 30, 2010 -- When the Iraqi army fell before invading U.S. and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years af...
BOOKS: Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’ (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2010 -- When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book,The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, f...
A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 18, 2010 -- I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on “Education and Youth”. Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, ...
Another Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Are Already at Home (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2010 --On Sunday, Oct. 31, when a group of militants seized a church in Baghdad, killing and wounding scores of Iraqi Christians, it signaled yet another epi...
Law Curbs McDonald's Happy Meal Toys (Lisa Baertlein)

Nov. 3, 2010 -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant me...
Nine Months After the Quake - a Million Haitians Slowly Dying (Bill Quigley)

Oct. 11, 2010(Information Clearing House) --"If it gets any worse," said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, "we're not going to survive." Mothers and grandmothers surrounding h...
Record 41.8 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps (Michael Krebs)

Oct. 6, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- As the November midterm elections draw closer, the stubborn unemployment rate has pushed a record 41.8 million Americans onto food stamps. Representing an...
Student badges equipped with tracking devices (Tiffany Craig)

Oct. 1, 2010 -- SANTA FE (WKOU) -- Students in Santa Fe have to wear ID badges to class, complete with a built-in tracking device. The Smart Badge program started this school year, and is getting mix...
BOOKS: Canada and Israel -- Building Apartheid. By Yves Engler (Jim Miles)

Canada and Israel -- Building Apartheid. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Canada. 2010. Oct. 5, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- While much is made of U.S. support of Israel, its unstinting rhetori...
One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)

Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whol...
BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)

Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...
Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon --Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house and ...