March 1, 2016 Headlines.

By Jerry Alatalo

Thought experiment…

ometimes isolated, re-combined article headlines convey more than their stand-alone singular varieties of content – similar to a photograph in time, in this case March 2016. In illustration, a list of post titles from some followed sites on WordPress over the past five days:

• 20 Countries Supply Bombs to ISIS
• How Bulgaria Supplied Drugs and Weapons to Al-Qaeda and Daesh
• Prof. James Tracy’s Termination in Light of Orwell’s 1984
• William Engdahl, Kevin Zeese on It’s Our Money
• Saudi Arabia’s Dictator Demands Regime Change in Syria, Otherwise WW III
• Demand UN Restore Inner City Press’ Access as Resident Correspondent
• A Novel About Jim Crow
• U.S. Presidential Elections 2016: The Revolt of the Masses
• The Need to Expand Limited Range of Normal Human Awareness
• New Wikileaks Saudi Cable: Overthrow Syrian Regime, But Play Nice With Russia
• Anti-Communist Fairy Tales About Cuba, Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights
• Syrian Front: The Ceasefire Begins
• Russia, Damascus Reserve Right to Respond to Ceasefire Violations in Syria
• Vast Areas of Syria Controlled by Groups Preventing Implementation of Ceasefire Agreement
• Security Council Unanimous on Resolution 2268 – Cessation of Hostilities in Syria
• Washington’s Plan B for Syria
• The Betrayal of the Kurdish People
• U.K. Terrorist Murders of Elderly Muslim Men: Big Questions for Police, Press on Hate Crime
• Reply to Open Letter by Federation of Young European Greens to DiEM25
• Syria in the Crosshairs: “The Syrian People are Against Plans to Partition Syria”
• What Does the Ceasefire in Syria Mean?
• Reuters: How the West Misread Putin Over Syria
• Global Justice Weekly – Protection of Human Rights in Jeopardy
• “Not About Closing Guantanamo, But Ensuring Accountability”, UN Rights Experts Say
• Russian Analyst: Why the Syrian Ceasefire Makes Sense
• The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
• The Mental World – Its Relation to the Vital and Physical Worlds
• America’s “In God We Trust” is a Deadbeat Dad
• China and Europe: Reconnecting Across a New Silk Road
• Russia Defense Ministry Briefing on ceasefire Process
• Syrian Front: Terrorist Attacks in Damascus, Hama, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo
• The Grand Inquisitor and his Guardians: Mass Media and the Fog in our Brains
• An Unparalleled Act of Police Terror
• How Neoliberalism Really Works: A Small Anecdote
• Bellingcat: The Dead Cat Factory
• Afghanistan: The Central Asia Grand Chessboard
• Justice for Rasmea? It Matters to Vets and Millions of Others
• Voices From Syria: Inside Syria by Rev. Andrew Ashdown
• Interview: Mideast Alliances Shift as Regional Balance Alters
• Irish Have Rejected ‘Dead End’, Troika-Inspired Policies
• 21 Questions for Donald Trump, 2 for Mainstream Media
• Supramental Worlds and Their Relation to Mind-Life-Body
• The Clintons and Wall Street: 24 Years of Enriching Each Other
• Syrian Front: Nine Ceasefire Violations In Past 24 Hours
• Europe Stops Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
• Systemic Fragility in the Global Economy
• Yemen: The Endlessly Forgotten War
• Alfred de Vigny: When Armies and War Exist No More
• Ukraine, the Price of Survival: From Civilian Aircraft to Attack Drones
• Britain’s Struggle to Abolish the Slave Trade
• The Human Soul’s Preoccupation with the Material Life
• Homeland: The Making of an Empire
• Is Greece a Compelling Reason to Vote Brexit June 23?
• Right of Reply: Amazon Watch Responds to Stansfield Smith
• Alfred de Vigny: The Army is a Machine Wound Up to Kill
• Statements of Saudi FM Violate UNSC Resolution 2268
• Hillary: “I Was A Goldwater Girl”
• War on Terror or War on Democracy? Physical Intimidation of Legislatures
• Before We Leap
• Interview on UN’s Assange Ruling
• Al Jazeera Pushing Westerners to Despise China
• ICC Timbuktu Destruction Case – All You Need to Know
• The Scandal of Voter Suppression, 16 States Face New Voting Restrictions
• Please Don’t Attack Al-Qaeda
• Oliver v. Trump
• Public Banking in Europe: Possibilities for Iceland
• How a Hillary or Bernie Government Would Relate to the World
• “The Marvelous Women” – Poem by Syrian-American
• The Guardian: Assange Supporters Condemn UK and Sweden in Open Letter
• Leaked Telephone Transcripts Show Turkey Helping ISIS in Syria

And, in perhaps ideal philosophical summation…

“Fulfilling the Human Aspiration for Deeper Meaning to Existence”

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