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America is Having the Mother of All Social Collapses | umair haque
Photo: Medium If American Life Feels Frightening, It’s Because It’s Imploding -- In Gruesome and Catastrophic Ways July 24, 2020 (Eudaimonia and Co) -- It’s genuinely terrifying to be an American ...
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Roy's People: American Liberalism Needs More Roy Orbison And Less Wonk Strategy (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant Can American liberalism rise from Washington’s two-bed brothel to dance with the ghost of Roy Orbison and eat garden tomatoes? Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2006 -- 10 a.m. -- ...
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WATCH: 'Why Banking Needs to Be Run as a Public Utility' | Center for Global Justice
July 13, 2020 (Center for Global Justice) -- The current financial crisis did not begin with a virus. It began in September 2019 with the collapse of the shadow banking system, requiring a bailout ...
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Island of the Undesirables: AIDS, COVID-19, Confederate Prisoners, and a Million More Stories | Mickey Z.
Claire Yaffa Children With Aids Photograph Collection, PR 290 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 15, 2020 Imagine a tiny, off-limits, allegedly haunted island upon which prisoners are recruited to ...
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By 2025, CO2 Will Be Highest In 3.3 Million Years | University of Southampton
The composition of fossilised zooplankton shells has enabled the reconstruction of past pH and CO2. Credit: University of Southampton July 10, 2020 (Phys.org) -- By 2025, atmospheric carbon dioxide ...
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If Life Feels Bleak, It’s Because Our Civilization is Beginning to Collapse | umair haque
Cole Thomas. The Course of Empire Destruction. 1836. Wikimedia Commons 2030 Will Be Even Worse than 2020. And 2040 Will Be Even Worse than That. Unless... July 3, 2020 (Medium) -- There’s an old ...
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Reinventing Activism, Part 3: Borrow Something From (gasp) Corporate Culture | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 8, 2020 (Part 1 of this series can be found here) (Part 2 of this series can be found here) Within the realm of activism, “corporate” is a ...
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BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 14, 2006 “Well, good lordie, you really was writin' a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” That was my friend Fat ...
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When Will Things Get Back to Normal? | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 2, 2020 This article is an update, a “re-set,” if you will… Preamble: On the liner notes for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album, it’s ...
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Laura D: The Fall and Rise of a Homeless Artist -- Mickey Z.
Laura D teaching watercolors at a homeless shelter (Courtesy of Laura D) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 30, 2020 “The only place I felt I did anything right was art class.” Those are the words ...
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Tearing Down the Idols of Colonialism | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudWhy Tunisia, Africa Must Demand French Apology Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 29, 2020 The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was ...
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