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Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app | AFP

May 20, 2018 (AFP) -- For its updated news application, Google is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence as part of an effort to weed our disinformation and help users get viewpoints beyond their own "filter bubble." Google chief Sundar Pichai, who unveiled the updated Google News earlier this month, said the app now "surfaces the news you care about from trusted sources while still ...

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Billie Holiday said 'This is America' 80 years ago with 'Strange Fruit' | Mickey Z.

Photo collage: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 20, 2018 Too bad they didn’t have Twitter in 1939 when Billie Holiday first performed #StrangeFruit. Southern trees bear strange fruit, Bloo ...

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Does Our National News Media Mislead Us About The Value Of Exit Polls In Monitoring Our Elections? | Dale Tavris

Map of red states and blue states in the U.S. Red=The Republican candidate carried the state in all four most recent presidential elections (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016). Pink=The Republican candidate car ...

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Hitler definitely died in 1945 according to new study of his teeth | AFP

"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler. He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine, he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon," professor Philippe Charl ...

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The mind-boggling corruption of Trump Inc. | Ryan Cooper

"Trump." By IoSonoUnaFotoCamera. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)May 18, 2018 (The Week) -- Another week in the Donald Trump presidency, another handful of days so stuffed full of sordid and highly complicated ...

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The Taste of Another’s Thoughts | John Michael Greer

May 16, 2018 (EcoSopha.net) -- We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industrial society is s ...

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An Affront to History: Giro d’Italia’s ‘Sport-Washing’ of Israeli Apartheid | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 15, 2018 For the first time since its inception in 1909, the legendary Italian cycling race, Giro d’Italia kicked off outside Europe and, strangel ...

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My Home is Beit Daras: Our Lingering Nakba | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 14, 2018 When Google Earth was initially released in 2001, I immediately rushed to locate a village that no longer exists on a map, which now deli ...

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You don’t need the Weathermen to know which way the privilege flows… | Mickey Z.

18 West 11th Street on March 6, 1970. Credit: CBS Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind ...

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Eclipsing Factionalism: The Missing Story from the Gaza Protests | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 10, 2018 The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli Occupation, the siege and the long-delayed "Right of Return" fo ...

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A Tune for Mountain Dulcimer | John Michael Greer

May 2, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- For some time now I’ve been thinking about one of the core patterns underlying recent history here in the United States. It’s a pattern that can be traced from colonial ...

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