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The Missing Context: ‘Islamic State’ Sectarianism is Not Coincidental | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 15, 2014 Consider this comical scene described by Peter Van Buren, a former U.S. diplomat, who was deployed to Iraq on a 12-month assignment in 2009-10. Van ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- October 13, 2014 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 13, 2014 Friends Committee on National Legislation Sept. 19-Nov. 11 House and Senate Election Day recess. Oct. 7-15 General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and ...
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BOOKS: “An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.” My Interview with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. | World News Trust Oct. 11, 2014 “The whole country is a crime scene and should be marked with yellow tape.” - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz As I type these words, we are ...
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Nothing About Us Without Us: The Token Palestinian And Authentic Narrative | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 8, 2014 I recall, with particular awkwardness, my first talk at a socialist student gathering at the University of Washington in Seattle nearly two decades ago. ...
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U.S. Foreign Policy Deceptions Began a Long Time Ago | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 10, 2014 As I witness folks debate and deflect about the behind-the-scenes realities of ISIS, Occupy Central, etc., it depresses me to ...
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What if ‘Islamic State’ Didn’t Exist? | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 1, 2014 What if the ed Islamic State (IS) didn’t exist? In order to answer this question, one has to liberate the argument from its geopolitical and ideological ...
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Nakhwa without Borders: Gaza and the End of ‘Arab Gallantry’ | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 24, 2014 On its own the Arabic word al-Nakhwa, means “gallantry.” Combined with the word “al-Arabiya” -- “Arab gallantry” -- the term becomes loaded with ...
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Bootcamp Workout: Bringing the War Home | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 24, 2014 “I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. Fortunately, we were on the winning side.” - U.S. ...
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Steel Cage Match: America’s Torturous History vs. ISIS | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 20, 2014 “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” - Aldous Huxley ...
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Convenient Genocide: Another Failed War to Re-Arrange the Middle East | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 18, 2014 A few months ago, not many Americans, in fact Europeans as well, knew that a Yazidi sect in fact existed in northwest Iraq. Even in the Middle East ...
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Hell (on Earth) is for Children | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 16, 2014 "When you own a big chunk of the bloody Third World, the babies just come with the scenery." - Pretenders, "Middle of the Road" ...
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