you, once, stood in the shadows, hidden by the building’s corner away from the warming sunlight that broke from, darkling clouds drifting away, after a fierce, nay, ferocious storm, that tore anew the tree’s last leaves, harbinger of winter’s deepening,… Read More ›
Month: January 2015
US Senator Rand Paul- Repatriation of Corporate Offshore Funds or More Corporate Welfare
Senator Rand Paul is seemingly obsessed with giving corporations another ‘tax holiday’ even though the last one proved a dud. Paul has introduced S. 911, which would reduce the repatriation rate to 5 percent. Paul argues lowering that tax on… Read More ›
‘ISIL is losing’: Iraqis optimistic for 2015
Circumstances of battle have changed in favour of Iraqi troops since June, local security officials say. Baghdad – Iraqi security forces backed by Shia militias, Kurdish forces and Sunni Muslim tribesmen will drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the… Read More ›
Photographers and Their Photographs in Black and White
Beth Moon – Trees Ansel Adams – Landscapes Dorothea Lange – People Yousuf Karsh – Portraits Richard Avedon – People in Motion Henri Cartier-Bresson – People and Places Robert Capa – People and Places Alfred Stieglitz – People Margaret… Read More ›
Metal detector enthusiasts in Buckinghamshire have uncovered what is thought to be one of biggest hoards of ancient coins ever found in Britain.
Paul Coleman from the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club discovered more than 5,000 coins buried inside a lead bucket two feet under a field near Aylesbury. The hoard contains specimens dating back to the 11th Century – the late Anglo Saxon,… Read More ›
Israel freezes Palestine tax funds over ICC bid
Israel has halted the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinians following their bid to join the International Criminal Court, Israeli officials say. They said $127m (£82m; €106m) collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority last month would be held… Read More ›
Eyeless in the West Bank
Salah Suleiman is an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Isawiyah, a Palestinian village within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries. He lost one eye after a bullet was fired at him by the Israeli police, and is now in danger of losing the sight in… Read More ›
WNF: World Predictions
This is a stab at seeing how good or maybe not,… 🙂 , we here at the WNF can predict anything about the world in the coming decades. In your comment, list your top five predictions of overall interest in… Read More ›
Settlers throw stones at U.S. consulate convoy in West Bank after destroying 5000 Olive Trees
Settlers from the Adei Ad illegal outpost in the West Bank threw stones on Friday at an American consulate convoy, which arrived at the area to examine complaints that settlers destroyed Palestinian-owned olive groves the day before. One of the… Read More ›
The Bipartisan War Consensus
By Scott Beauchamp Hawks such as Sen. John McCain and commentators such as former New York Times columnist Bill Keller and Wall Street Journal editor Bret Stephens fret about America’s growing isolationism and the potential for a de-Americanized world, in… Read More ›
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