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'Disquiet', by Zulfu Livaneli is a masterful work which will do more to explain the horrors of the Syrian war than any news reports.

The film documents the efforts of former Special Forces soldier David Eubank and his family to help people in war zones.

The true story of 'the girl with the red foulard,' killed fighting with the PKK against the so-called Islamic State just as this production prepared to mount, takes its place in the connected and seemingly neverending sagas of the war on terror and the struggle for self-determination in the face of what may seem destiny.

If only someone had miraculously turned back the clock to the good ol' days of slavery, or at least to the pre-Civil Rights era, everything would have been just fine. No one was complaining back then, not even the poor whites, for they were still far better off than the blacks and the rest of us who had trickled in afterwards.

I have been moved, inspired, and touched by documentaries before. "Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks" is the first documentary ever to bring me to tears.

Turn in your neighbors or suffer the consequences. What's next, Mr. Trump?

All this media attention on killers and terrorists is merely giving food to the monster that doth mock the hand that feeds it.

If our main problem with terrorists is that they threaten our way of life, how can we fray the fabric of that existence in an effort to combat them?

The killings in Paris are part of a cycle based on erroneous beliefs and assumptions. Now is a time when we can pause and start a new cycle – a cycle of waking up to our oneness with each other, with our Mother Earth and indeed the entire universe.

ISIS? ISIL? Islamic State? Daesh? What's in a name? A lot.