Culture

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, strangely enough, from the city of Jerusalem on May 4. The inherent contradictions in that decision are inescapable. Italy is a country that has experienced a ruthless forging occupation and was ravaged by fa ...

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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 deli ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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Hitler definitely died in 1945 according to new study of his teeth | AFP

"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler. He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine, he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon," professor Philippe Charl ...

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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 ...

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You don’t need the Weathermen to know which way the privilege flows… | Mickey Z.

18 West 11th Street on March 6, 1970. Credit: CBS Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind ...

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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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