The public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.” | Mickey Z.

By DonkeyHotey (Stormy Daniels - Caricature) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 19, 2018 “The reasons a woman only has to make one porn film to be a ‘porn star’ are similar t ...

Rim Banna and the Cultural War that Palestinians Must Win | Ramzy Baroud

Rim Banna. From Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 2, 2018 Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on March 24, after a decade-long battle with cancer, b ...

Was Muhammad Ali over-rated? (spoiler: yes, in every possible way) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Muhammad Ali -- “The Greatest” -- was not only vastly overrated as a fighter but even more overrated as a rebel-activist-revolutionary-humanitarian. Mickey Z. -- World News Tr ...

Never Give a Sucker.... | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2018 Kudos to the 1941 W.C Fields comedy film "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" for the inspiration. It certainly does fit with what is transpiring ...

John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Cindy Cohn

John Perry Barlow Cindy Cohn -- EFF Feb. 7, 2018 With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep ...

Amerika's Jacob's Ladder | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2017 In Adrian Lyne's 1990 drama, Jacob's Ladder, Tim Robbins plays a haunted Vietnam War vet mourning his dead son, while sufferin ...

Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos | Quaternary Science Reviews

The sea level rise and the colossal amounts of meltwater discharged from the collapsing ice sheet meant that areas that previously were land eventually became seabed. Britain and Ireland, which had b ...

DeNiro rides the R train | Mickey Z.

Artist: Martin Schoeller (American/German, born 1968). Title: Robert De Niro on Subway. Brooklyn, New York, 2013. Medium: Photographs, Archival pigment print. Size: 73.5 x 91.5 cm. (28.9 x 36 in.). F ...

‘Decolonizing the Mind’: Using Hollywood Celebrities to Validate Islam | Ramzy Baroud

Lindsay Lohan. By Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22882141Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 23, 2017 When Terry Holdbrooks Jr., converted to Islam in 2003, ...

21st Century Amerika, A Reality Show | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 30, 2016 Forty years have passed since Sidney Lumet's finest film, Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky. Anyone who wishes to see an al ...

Where are their hashtags? | Mickey Z.

Photo collage created by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 6, 2016 My Facebook page hosts many male pattern violence-related posts, often bearing the caption “name the problem.” As unrele ...