Edited Stories
(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 8, 2021 Recently, as I neared my local C-Town supermarket, I passed its recycling station. Just outside the entrance are a couple of machines at which locals can load the bottles and cans they’ve collected.Once the metal and plastic are in the machine, the loader gets a receipt to bring to a cashier in exchange for “deposit” money. This particular mo ...
Back slowly away from the crazy person Brace for serious trouble March 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late in 2019, I wrote a series of posts entitled “Dancers at the End of Time,” sketching out certain ...
Sand tiger sharks mating at Georgia Aquarium. Credit: Georgia Aquarium Scientists reexamine gender biases in shark, ray mating research March 4, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Shark scientists at Georgia Aquariu ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudReady to Work with Netanyahu Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 28, 2021 At first glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typi ...
Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park: September 2011 (Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 5, 2021 To begin this brief contemplation, I’ll do what we men do so well, state the obvi ...
(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 3, 2021 In the early days of “quarantine,” many of us found some solace in watching nature “take back” areas suddenly devoid of humans. It feels ra ...
Romana Rubeo & Dr. Ramzy Baroud "Engaging the World" Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 26, 2021 On Feb. 4, representatives from the Palestinian Movement, Hamas, visited Moscow to ...
(YouTube screenshot) Mickey Z. — Worlds News Trust March 1, 2021 I recently told you a little about my gig at the Vertical Club (VC). Think of it as Studio 54 with bench pressing (or is that redundan ...
(public domain) Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 26, 2021 As a student at St. Patrick’s grammar school back in the day, I knew all about the concept of “patrol boys” — and, for the (sexist) reco ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 21, 2021 For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casu ...
(AP photos) Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 23, 2021 “They say that what you mock/Will surely overtake you And you become a monster/So the monster will not break you” (“Peace on Earth,” U2) NOT ...