Wednesday, April 06, 2016

SALLY SELLS WHAT SHE SELLS OFFSHORE

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by Paul Smith Sally sold seashells by the seashore Now Sally sells tax shelters offshore To shills From Iceland to Russia to Sing...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

TERROR IN ATHENS

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by Howard Winn ATHENS, Ohio — A Hocking County gun shop owner may have prevented a mass shooting at Ohio University in Athens, authorit...
Monday, April 04, 2016

EASTER SUNDAY, 2016, LAHORE, PAKISTAN

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by  Janet Leahy It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon and six-year-old Zainab Jamshed could not wait to spend the day at the park with ...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

REFLECTING THE WORLD

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by Richard Schnap When he learned that To lose was to Be spit upon He wore a Superman outfit And when he discovered that Hate ...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

BIOPIC

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by Rae Leone Allen Zoe Saldana faces criticism over dark makeup in Nina Simone film trailer. The actor’s casting as the legendary sing...
Friday, April 01, 2016

ON THE DEATH OF GARY SHANDLING

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by Jim Gustafson                               With thanks to Mikhail Iossel. One by one, Mikhail says, they are leaving through ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

A VIEW OF ISIS’S EVOLUTION IN NEW DETAILS OF PARIS ATTACKS

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by Mary Leonard A VIEW OF ISIS’S EVOLUTION IN NEW DETAILS OF PARIS ATTACKS.  A wounded man was evacuated at the Bataclan concert hall...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

A VIEW FROM HOME

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by David Chorlton On March 24, the international tribunal in The Hague delivered the Radovan Karadzic verdict - more than 20 years afte...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

THE RACE

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by Laura Lee Washburn 11 - 17 March 2016 issue I catch foul balls on my tongue: words like “Get ‘im out of here” USA “Go back to...
Monday, March 28, 2016

A PRAYER IN ACTION

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by Lynnie Gobeille In a prayer shawl, Shmuel Herzfeld, American Open Orthodox rabbi who heads Ohev Shalom Synagogue in Washington, DC w...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

THEATRE

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by Erica Goss “Russian aviation launched the for the second day in a row raids on the city of Raqqa, where nine raids carried out by h...

MORE DARKNESS AT NOON

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by George Held The Swedish authorities have filed criminal charges against a Syrian man who is suspected of having participated in th...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

SYRIAN LANDSCAPE

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by Michael Shorb Image source: Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently , a campaign launched by a group of non-violent activists in Raqq...

TELESCOPE AND NIGHT ORNAMENTS

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by Debasis Mukhopadhyay Image from “Museum of War Syria” by Tammam Azzam at Foreign Policy , April 29, 1913.       Through the trap...