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Fatah, Hold Your Applause: Palestinian Body Politic Rotten to the Core | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 7, 2016 In July 2003, the then Palestinian Authority Chairman, Yasser Arafat, described Mahmoud Abbas as a "traitor" who "betrayed the interests of ...
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The Case Against Reality | Amanda Gefter
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman explains why human perceptions of an independent reality are all illusions. A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- December 5, 2016 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- December 5, 2016 Dec. 4-7 National Symposium on Nuclear Weapons. Santa Fe, NM. Dec. 5 9:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "U.S.-ROK ...
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The Deepening Deep State | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2016 One amusing angle on the news media broadside about Russia “hacking” the U.S. election is the failure to mention -- or ...
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Standing Rock, news feeds, and 'the whole world is watching' | Mickey Z.
Protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 13, 2016. By Fibonacci Blue. Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 4, 2016 As I type these words, my Facebook news ...
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Less Symbolism, More Action: Towards Meaningful Solidarity with Palestine | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 30, 2016 The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has designated the week Nov. 25-Dec. 3 as the "biggest-ever campaign" aimed at boycotting Israeli ...
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The End of the American Century | John Michael Greer
Nov. 30, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I have a bone to pick with the Washington Post. A few days back, as some of my readers may be aware, it published a list of some 200 blogs that it claimed were ...
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Ratt’s Rumble (and other street stories) | Mickey Z.
The Rumble from West Side Story 1957. Photo by Fred Fehl (eBay item photo front photo back) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 27, 2016 Back in the day, my friends and I ...
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What Should Palestinians Expect -- Can Trump Be Any Worse? | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 23, 2016 Fear and trepidation are slowly building up, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is fortifying his transitional team with people capable ...
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Hearts and Minds | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Nov. 23, 2016 Peter Davis directed a brilliant documentary film on the Vietnam conflict (I refuse to use the term "War" as Congress has not ...
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The Free Trade Fallacy | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerNov. 23, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- As longtime readers of this blog know, it’s not uncommon for the essays I post here to go veering off on an assortment of tangents, and this ...
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