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Censoring American War Crimes
Censoring American War Crimes
Abby Zimet · After years of hating the iconic photo, Kim Phuc came to embrace it as a powerful tool to teach peace.
No One Leaves Home Unless Home Is the Mouth of a Shark
No One Leaves Home Unless Home Is the Mouth of a Shark
Abby Zimet · A broken Abdullah Kurdi buried his two toddlers and his wife in their hometown of Kobani, Syria even as thousands of his fellow refugeescontinuedon their harrowingquestfor safety -
Occupation, Schmoccupation: And Propaganda Shall Cover For Everything (Except the Ugly Truth)
Occupation, Schmoccupation: And Propaganda Shall Cover For Everything (Except the Ugly Truth)
Abby Zimet · As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank, hasreleaseda new booklet to teach young people "the right...
"Oh My God, They Use You As Target Practice." Literally.
"Oh My God, They Use You As Target Practice." Literally.
Abby Zimet · In your weekly, admittedly rhetorical WTF-is-wrong-with-this-country turn, it seems cops in South Florida have beenusingreal photos of real black men - bullet-riddled, obviously, when they're done with them - as target practice at their...
Making/Selling Christmas: Where Your Baubles, Tinsel, Santa Hats and LED Reindeer Come From
Making/Selling Christmas: Where Your Baubles, Tinsel, Santa Hats and LED Reindeer Come From
Abby Zimet · Just so you know: Those trinkets of Christmas proclaimed to bring joy to the world - wreaths, lights, stockings, mistletoe, shiny stars and snowflakes and other glittering marvels of tree adornment - are likelymadein Yiwu, aka China's...
Holocaust Survivors On Gaza: Genocide Begins With the Silence of the World
Holocaust Survivors On Gaza: Genocide Begins With the Silence of the World
Abby Zimet · History turns: Even as Israel's onslaught in Gaza continues - in the latest insanity, obliterating an apartment building housing 44 families to punish one alleged combatant - over 300 Holocaust survivors and descendants have written a...
Just Eat It: Big Money Spends Millions to Convince Washington It's None of Our Business What We Put In Our Mouths
Just Eat It: Big Money Spends Millions to Convince Washington It's None of Our Business What We Put In Our Mouths
Abby Zimet · 9 November 2013:A disheartening but predictable loss for GMO labelling in Washington, where Monsanto, DuPont and other big corporate interests jumped in and spent millions, sometimes evidently illegally, todefeatInitiative 522 to label...
Obama Gives Bush "Absolute Immunity" For Everything
Obama Gives Bush "Absolute Immunity" For Everything
Abby Zimet · Days before Bradley - now Chelsea - Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping expose U.S. war crimes in Iraq, the Obama Department of Justice filed a
Simply Despotic: UK Detains Greenwald Partner
Simply Despotic: UK Detains Greenwald Partner
Abby Zimet · In an act of blatantescalation against press freedom, UK offici
30 Years, One Earth: The Planet As Digital Flip Book
30 Years, One Earth: The Planet As Digital Flip Book
Abby Zimet · Astonishing timelapse pictures of a growing, changing, withering, clearly finite planet have been unveiled from Landsat, a satellite project launched in 1972 by NASA, Google, the U.S. Geological Survey and others. Over three decades of...
Hey Idiots: Taking On the "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls" Over Al Jazeera
Hey Idiots: Taking On the "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls" Over Al Jazeera
Abby Zimet · With Al Jazeera America launching in a couple of weeks, Current TV's John Fugelsang decides to address the