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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 Corporate science is often secretive, not peer-reviewed, laden with lobbying power, and driven by profit-seeking strategies.”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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BOOKS: Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain, by Gary Olson | Paul Street

Gary Olson, Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain (New York: Springer, 2012) April 5, 2013 (Z Communications) -- Think of the values and ideas we left progressives tend to identify with and defend and advance against those rapacious “1%”’ masters of capital, for whom the Golden Rule is that “those who have the gold deserve to rule.” Words that first come to mind probably include s...
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The United States of Propaganda (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 26, 2013 “The 20th century (was) characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” - Alex Carey Recently, while at an event marking the 1,000th day of imprisonment...
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Limbaugh’s New Racism | Joel S. Hirschhorn

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 24, 2013 For some years, several times a week while driving to go shopping and do errands, I have listened to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Pretty much all the time I have become angered because every few sentences I realized that with his total sincerity and conviction he was stating absolutely incorrect things. Add to endless wrong information compl...
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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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Technology Servitude | Joel S. Hirschhorn

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Jan. 5, 2013 Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals, while sitting in toilets -- everywhere. While connected electronically, they are inattentive to and disconnected in physica...
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Homeless | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 3, 2012 Even if the so-called economy were "recovering," the people of the USA would be stuck in a physical setting for daily life that has no future -- the nightmare infrastructure of subdivision houses, strip malls, and WalMarts, all rigged up for incessant motoring. Of course, the so-called economy is not recovering because there is no...
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The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. (Lesson: Don’t get used to the media love) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 12, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." - Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zuccotti" While the post-hurricane environment throughout the N.Y./N.J. area once again debunked the myth of “disaster = chaos,” it also created a window of opportunity for the 99%...
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Top 50 Journalism Professors in 2012 | JournalismDegree.org

June 13, 2012 (JournalismDegree.org) -- To recognize the accomplishments of top-tier journalism and communications professors across the country, Journalism Degree.org has developed a list of the Top 50 Journalism Professors in 2012. Traditionally, major news media channels were the chief transmitters of information about public affairs and pop culture. However, the role of journalism is changing...
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BOOKS: The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy. By Yves Engler | Jim Miles

The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy. Yves Engler. Fernwood /Red. 2012. Oct. 12, 2012 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- This is another well-supported compilation of information concerning the Canadian government’s foreign policy under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Some of the topics have been covered before by Engler, others are new, but for both the emphasis is on how al...
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