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Gaza Rallies for Caracas: On the West’s Dangerous Game in Venezuela | Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo
Romana RubeoRamzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo -- World News Trust Feb. 2, 2019 Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of besieged Gaza to show their support of the democratically-elected ...
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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning | Seth Borenstein
Oct. 8, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming ...
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America and Russia, Part I: Stirrings in the Borderlands | John Michael Greer
Oct. 3, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for ...
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End of Hegemony: UN Must Reflect Changing World Order | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2018 There is a rational explanation of why India and Brazil, two countries with vast populations and large and growing economies, are not ...
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Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from lack of physical activity | Regina Guthold
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 5, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- August 26, 2018 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 26, 2018 Aug. 28 4:30-5:30 p.m., Francis Gavin, Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking American grand strategy in the age of Trump," ...
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Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone
Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global ...
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More than half of Amazonian armadillos carry leprosy | John Spencer
Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). Credit: Richard Truman, USPHS Public Domain (2014).June 28, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The bacteria that causes leprosy, a chronic disease that can lead to ...
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Did Israel Inspire Trump's Family Separation Policy? | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 26, 2018 This past May, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the government's "zero tolerance" policy at U.S. border crossings. It was ...
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Why isn’t Juliane Koepcke a household name? | Mickey Z.
Photo source: BBC World Service on Twitter Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 27, 2018 Imagine this: An attractive, white, blonde, smart, tough, and articulate male teenager lives through a plane ...
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From the hearts and minds of men: Torture (vol. 1) | Mickey Z.
Dan Mitrione (above left); also shown a finger crushing device, an electric shock device, and dental devices - all smuggled into Brazil and Uruguay by "diplomatic pouch" from the United States. ...
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