Politics

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 delineates a whole different reality. Although I was born and raised in a Gaza refugee camp, and then moved to and lived in the United States, finding a village that was erased from the map decades earlie ...

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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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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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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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Six months In '68: A Drastic Awakening | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 3, 2018 Fifty years has flown by for many baby boomers. So much has transpired, and yet, the first six months in 1968 were the foundatio ...

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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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Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as ‘Liberals’ and ‘Progressives’ Go Mute | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 1, 2018 Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests ...

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The Horsefly Cometh | James Howard Kunstler

Horsefly. Credit: Dave Edens, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 4, 2018 You can see where this Mueller thing is going: to the moment when the Golden Golem of Great ...

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The Original Donald Trump | Frank Rich

Roy Cohn in 1986, a few months before he died. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onet ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 Friends Committee On National Legislation April 23-May 4 2nd Preparatory Committee Session for 2020 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. Re ...

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A Nobel Prize for Trump and Kim Is No Joke | Leonid Bershidsky

Donald Trump (left) and Kim Jong Un. Images lifted from Al Jazeera (credit: Reuters) If they manage to achieve peace in Korea, they’ll be genuine heroes, whatever else they are. April 27, 2018 (Bloom ...

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