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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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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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The Gift of the Snow Day | Deborah Goodwin
March 19, 2013 (Shapeshiftas.com) -- We heard starting about Saturday that maybe we were in for some snow. It seemed late. The sap was already running, we were in mud boots, and the car was caked in the stuff. Mostly the snow was gone, certainly along the roadsides the leftover plowed piles were looking dirty and sparse. I was sure that I had flicked work for the last time to go skiing on a weekd...
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Photographing Tragedy: What Victims Actually Want | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 19, 2013 When one looks at scenes of fleeing refugees from Syria via images of their squalid refugee camps and hears their pleas for solidarity, mercy or for God’s help to end their suffering, one finds eerie similarities between their experiences and those of the Palestinians, Lebanese and Iraqis. However, the worse part of the tragedy occurs when it is so...
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Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2013 Soon after the joint U.S.-British bombing campaign "Operation Desert Fox" devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. I was disappointed with the fact that our busy schedule in Iraq -- mostly visiting hospitals packed with injured or Depleted Uranium Victims -- left m...
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Obamacare: A Deception | Paul Craig Roberts
Feb. 3, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- The article below is the most comprehensive analysis available of “Obamacare” -- the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author, a knowledgeable person who wishes to remain anonymous, explains how Obamacare works for the insurance companies but not for you. Obamacare was formulated on the concept of health care as a commercial commodity and was c...
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The Children Are Still Dying: Violence is Not News | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust August 22, 2012 Somewhere in my home I have a set of photo albums I rarely go near. I fear the flood of cruel memories that might be evoked from looking at the countless photos I took during a trip to Iraq. Many of the pictures are of children who developed rare forms of cancer as a result of exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU), which was used in the U.S.-led war ...
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Strange Jubilee | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Apr. 9, 2012 -- Is there a Baby Boomer so dim in this land of rackets and swindles who thinks that he or she will escape the wrath of the Millennials rising? The developing story is so obvious that only an academic economist could fail to notice. Here's how it will go: some months from now -- as the financial unwind worsens, and the mirage of gainfu...
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PILLOW TALK: Deborah Goes Shopping (Part 2) | Deborah Goodwin
Mar. 23, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- Last night I was shopping in my dream. I'm not certain where I was shopping or what I was shopping for, it was more a feeling of being in a store and looking for something that I couldn't find. I imagine that this is a pretty common dream in one form or another, the Lost Item(s) dream, different from the Lost dream but no less distressing. Whatever you a...
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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...
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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 presidential election charade, I’ll remind you of something I wrote earlier this year: The most consistent and primary difference between Republicans and Democrats is that they tell different lies to get ...
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