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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 Corporate science is often secretive, not peer-reviewed, laden with lobbying power, and driven by profit-seeking strategies.”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 forms of life would flourish.” - Jonas Salk Billions of humans are hungry, industrial propagandists have corrupted our understanding (sic) of nutrition, and much of how we’re programmed to eat is rapi...
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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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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 the abstract. It’s when they attempt to apply this logic to their own lives and thinking that they get tripped up, because self-defeating patterns very often arise from a mismatch between basic presuppo...
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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 betrayed democracy in America, unleashing execution on American citizens without due process of law and war without the consent of Congress, provoked Maduro’s response by suggesting that Maduro’s newly ...
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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 specifically about high profile mainstream news spectacles, but the Cleveland kidnapping story contains a broad range of socially relevant angles. For example, while Ariel Castro is being charged wi...
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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 the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” - Kurt Cobain Quite often, my walk to Astoria Park -- a green urban sanctuary on the banks of the m...
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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 about to scale previously uncharted heights and the Standard & Poors Index is piling onto its molehill, too. If stocks are up the economy can't be weak since stock markets = the economy. All the...
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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://truthingold.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-governments-non-farm-payroll-report.html Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) says both the jobs report and unemployment rate are “nonsense.” I agree wi...
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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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You Are The Hope | Paul Craig Roberts
May 1, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Dear Readers: If there is hope, you are it. You are motivated to find truth. You can think outside the box. You can see through propaganda. You are the remnant with the common sense that once was a common American virtue. You come to PaulCraigRoberts.org, because you get explanations that are not agenda-driven, that are not BS, that are not right-wing or left...
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