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 lob ...

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 per ...

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 countl ...

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 somet ...

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, remarkabl ...

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 preside ...

Anti-Semitism and Israel’s Inherent Contradictions (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2012 -- In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as "anti-Semitic." He also denounced Arab Knesset member H ...

Welcome To Happy Valley: Occupy Penn State,(Carolyn Baker)

Nov. 17, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, is ensconsed in a somewhat bucolic region of the commonwealth called Happy Valley. The name exquisitely ...

UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)

Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and inspi ...

Ibrahim Zaza: The Gaza Boy Newspapers Omitted (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 28, 2011 -- “Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition ... we need peopl ...

SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record (Justin Pope)

Sept. 14, 2011 (AP) -- SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995. The College Board, w ...