The Pawns of War | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 25, 2018 She would always have the brightest smile as she stood at the intersection of Avenue T and Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn, New York, ci ...

Israel’s Premature Celebration: Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 23, 2018 Sixrty Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed by internation ...

To Protect and Serve... The Empire | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 22, 2018 Writer Eric Zuesse wrote a great new piece "How Democracy Ended," seen on a few fine sites. He shows how our U.S. so-called dem ...

The Coming Collapse | Chris Hedges

Mr. Fish / Truthdig May 20, 2018 (Truthdig) -- The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, ...

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 bey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To Be a (REAL) Jew | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 16, 2018 This writer has been a student of both WWII and the Jewish Holocaust for most of my adult life. I believe it was 1988 or '89 an ...

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 ...