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The Miserable Ones (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2011 -- I’m going to tell you a story today, it’s a story about you and me and it’s a story about a father and son. In a larger sense it’s a story about A ...
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Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? (Noam Chomsky)
Aug. 9, 2011 -- (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid privatizati ...
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Confused Strategy: How the PA Sold Out Palestinian Unity (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 13, 2011 -- If you happen to be a Palestinian government employee, chances are you will receive only half your usual salary this month. The other half will only ...
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One Missile, One Playground: The Will of Gaza (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 8, 2011 -- GAZA -- A “Hamas commander” drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the passenger seat. The ...
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Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 25, 2011 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occu ...
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The Guiding Principle (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2011 -- It has been about a month since my rescue from the street. I quickly became sissified, sanctified, civilized and satisfied. I am plagued though, b ...
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Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 30, 2010 -- When the Iraqi army fell before invading U.S. and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years afte ...
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BOOKS: Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’ (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2010 -- When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, fe ...
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A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 18, 2010 -- I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on “Education and Youth”. Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, ...
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Another Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Are Already at Home (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2010 -- On Sunday, Oct. 31, when a group of militants seized a church in Baghdad, killing and wounding scores of Iraqi Christians, it signaled yet another ep ...
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Law Curbs McDonald's Happy Meal Toys (Lisa Baertlein)
Nov. 3, 2010 -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant m ...
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