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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 to him. His face, wrinkled before its time, was a picture of utter anguish. It could only be understood by a parent whose child was dying under giant slabs of concrete where nothing could be done. ...
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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. According to Khanna, China and the European Union are the new contenders with the battlefield being a global "geopolitical marketplace." Aside from Khanna’s insight, one statement particula...
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Israel Strikes Syria | Dominic Evans and Oliver Holmes
May 5, 3013 -- BEIRUT (Reuters) -- Israeli jets bombed Syria Sunday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah. Local people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the capital's skyline lit by flashes; Syrian opponents of President Bashar al-Assa...
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If you want to go to heaven, you had better get busy overthrowing Syria | Paul Craig Roberts
April 21, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The U.S government has been at war for 11 years. The U.S. military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in “liberated” Iraq, the death toll is as high as during the height of the U.S. attempted occupation. ...
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The U.S. Practices and Supports Torture (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 20, 2013 “The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?” - George Orwell On April 16, 2013, the newspaper of record “broke” the “news” that the United States government (an...
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Gaza’s Siege Intensifies: The Plan to ‘Moderate’ Hamas, Control Gaza | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 11, 2013 On Sep. 17, 2012, Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, made another appeal to his Egyptian counterpart Hisham Kandil to consider setting up a free trade area between Gaza and Egypt. The reasonable idea would allow Egypt to support Gaza’s ragged economy while sparing Cairo the political fallout from destroying hundreds of...
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The Lie Of 'Precision' Bombing Drones On (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 9, 2013 "See, in my line of work, you’ve got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush While I was participating in a demonstration against predator drone warfare at the U.S. Armed Forces “Career” Center at Times Square, I watched th...
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Turkey’s Unsustainable Politics in the Middle East: Israel vs. The Rest | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 3, 2013 "Confused" may be an appropriate term to describe Turkey’s current foreign policy in the Middle East and Israel in particular. The source of that confusion -- aside from the appalling violence in Syria and earlier in Libya -- is Turkey’s own mistakes. The Turkish government’s inconsistency regarding Israel highlights earlier discrepancy i...
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Obama’s Peace Antics in Israel – Four More Years of This? | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 29, 2013 At the precise moment President Obama’s Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion Airport March 20, persisting illusions quickly began to shatter. And as he walked on the red carpet, showered with accolades and warm embraces of top Israeli government and military officials, a new/old reality began to sink in: Obama was no different than his predeces...
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Of Hope and Pain: Rachel Corrie’s Rafah Legacy | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 20, 2013 “Hi Papa ... Don’t worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we are not being effective. I still don’t feel particularly at risk. Rafah has seemed calmer lately,” Rachel Corrie wrote to her father, Craig, from Rafah, a town located at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. "Rachel’s last email" was not dated on the Rachel ...
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Iraq After Ten Years | Paul Craig Roberts
March 18, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. The U.S Secretary of State at that time, General Colin Powell, has expressed his regrets that he was used by t...
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