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From An 8 Percent Jewish Guy | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 This writer recently had a DNA ancestry done. In addition to my ancestry being overwhelmingly Italian, I found out two interesting things: I am both 8 percent Jewish and 8 percent Middle Eastern. My maternal great grandmother was German Jewish and my paternal grandfather had roots in Tunisia. Be that as it may, finding this ...

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What Is Art For? | John Michael Greer

Dec. 5, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The discussion of the foibles and failures of modern art that appeared here two weeks ago was of course not the last word on that vast and intricate subject. This week ...

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From Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 4, 2018 Watching the ongoing debate between U.S. liberal and right-wing pundits on U.S. mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Was ...

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Netanyahu's Predicament: The Era of Easy Wars is over | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 28, 2018 When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army to carry out a limited operation in the besieged Gaza Strip on Nov. 12, ...

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This Flight from Failure | John Michael Greer

Nov. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- A little while back I attended an open house at the newly founded What Cheer Writers Club across the river in Providence. Half coworking space, half social center for the ...

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The Tide is Turning: Israel Is Losing on Two War Fronts | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 20, 2018 The Nov. 12 botched Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip is delineating Tel Aviv’s failure to utilize its army as a tool to achi ...

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In Breach of Human Rights, Netanyahu Supports the Death Penalty against Palestinians | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 15, 2018 Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is escalating his war on the Palestinian people, although for reasons almost entire ...

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The Cosmic Doctrine: The Beginnings of a Solar System | John Michael Greer

A.B. Lagrelius and Westphal, adapted by S. Egts. From: ScienceNews.orgPart 1: The Dawn of Manifestation Part 2: The Forces of (Negative) Evil Part 3: The 12 Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes Part 4: T ...

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The Twilight of the Intelligentsia | John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer. Photo: YouTubeNov. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I promise, I didn’t time this sequence of posts so that this one would come out the morning after one of the most bitterly fought mid ...

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Why Is Israel Afraid of Khalida Jarrar? | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 6, 2018 When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer, Khalida Jarrar, on April 2, 2015, she was engrossed in h ...

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I wrote this article of my own free will. Or did I? | Mickey Z.

PHOTO: CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 2, 2018 Why am I writing this article? Because I feel like it… right? Well, there’s that — but there’s also the fact that my mother survive ...

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