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Angelina Jolie, Corporate Science, and “Prevention” | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Corporate science puts profit before the public interest. Corporate science is often secretive, not peer-reviewed, laden with lobbying power, and driven by profit-seeking strategies.” - Ralph Nader By now, I’m guessing the vast majority of you have heard about movie star Angelina Jolie choosing to have a double mastectomy to reduce her ris...
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Let Them Eat Bugs (when capitalists address hunger) | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 16, 2013 “If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all fo...
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How Elites and Media Minimize Dissent and Bury Truth | Paul Craig Roberts
May 10, 2013 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: jsonp_8, | Print This Article Over the last several years I have watched the rise of an important new intellect on the American scene...
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The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close...
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The Song Remains the Same | John Michael Greer
May 8, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- If you always do what you’ve always done, a popular saying nowadays has it, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. Most people accept that readily enough in th...
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Washington’s Presumption | Paul Craig Roberts
May 7, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- The new president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is cast in Chavez’s mold. On May 4, he called U.S. president Obama the “grand chief of devils.” Obama, who has be...
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Life & Death/Revenge & Justice | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 12, 2013 "Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders." - Albert Camus For a wide variety of reasons, I rarely write...
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Sparrows Don’t Buy Condos | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 “Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know ...
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The Deep End of the Risk Pool | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Where on earth did Paul Krugman get the idea -- expressed Monday morning -- that ours is "a weak economy?" The Dow Jones Industrial Average is abo...
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The Financial Press -- A Disinformation Machine | Paul Craig Roberts
May 5, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Dave Kranzler of Golden Returns Capital declares the April payroll jobs report that was released May 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be “fictitious.”http:/...
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Boston, Brazil and Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 1, 2013 During his talk sponsored by the New American Foundation in March 2008, author Parag Khanna addressed the rising challenges facing U.S. global hegemony. ...
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