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• YARMOUK YOUTH WINS 2014 UNRWA/EU PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

  By enormousgherkin on November 28, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Gaza A timeless photograph capturing the anguish of children affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria has won first prize in the European Union-supported 2014 UNRWA youth photography competition. The theme for the 2014 competition, ‘I Am Not a Statistic’,… Read More ›

• Bubonic Plague Is Still Shockingly Common, And It’s Ravaging Madagascar Right Now

  By Ecantados on November 27, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  By Laura F. Friedman in the Business Insider Madagascar is currently experiencing an outbreak of the plague, the disease once known as the Black Death, the World Health Organization announced recently. The first case was reported in August. As of… Read More ›

• As We See

  By Ecantados on November 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

  Look beyond the myriad reasons the are many colors on the earth rainbows collide, blending, bleeding lost in the kaleidiscope of seasons passing through life, each tiny, small watch as they diminish in the distance follow their  path back where… Read More ›

• Illegitimate newborns murdered and discarded

  By konigludwig on November 24, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  In Pakistan, abortion is illegal, and so is adultery – creating a situation where hundreds of children born out of wedlock are secretly killed each year. Their bodies are, literally, thrown out with the garbage. A child has just been… Read More ›

• Water Pipelines

  By Ecantados on November 20, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  By Zoltan Grossman via The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington With diminishing water supplies and rapid human population growth, communities and countries are being prompted to investigate alternative water resources. Water pipelines have been a proposed, but controversial option. These… Read More ›

• Shin Bet Chief: Mahmoud Abbas Isn’t Inciting Terror

  By konigludwig on November 18, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  By J.J. Goldberg in The Jewish Daily Forward The director of Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service, speaking in the wake of today’s massacre in a Jerusalem synagogue, told a Knesset committee that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas “is not interested… Read More ›

• ‘Keystone XL Clone’ to Pump Tar Sands Oil Starting Next Year

  By genvana on November 17, 2014 • ( 11 )

  

  By Anastasia Pantsios As Republicans get set to test their new majority in the U.S. Senate and their complete control of Congress to push through approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, a new investigative report by editor Lou Dubose at the… Read More ›

• Anonymous Seized The Klan’s Main Twitter Account This Morning

  By genvana on November 17, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  By skywriter and wouldn’t let go until a short time ago. Anonymous had been in control of the Klan’s main Twitter account @KuKluxKlanUSA since 9 this morning, posting its own pictures on the racists’ account and using the hashtags, #OpKKK #Ferguson… Read More ›

• Yes, the Republican Obamacare Strategy Will Kill People

  By genvana on November 11, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  By Jonathan Chait There is a famous thought experiment called the trolley problem, and it goes like this: A runaway trolley is headed toward five people bound on the tracks. You are standing before the switch that could divert it… Read More ›

• Jewish Defense League Meets Pastrami

  By konigludwig on November 9, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  By Menachem Freedman When the news hit my Facebook feed that Ben and Izzy’s, a restaurant in Toronto, had been named “North America’s Top Kosher Deli,” I immediately packed my bags. Under the guise of visiting family, I began a… Read More ›

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