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Our species has had a wild and crazy adolescence. These days we’re facing the consequences of our irresponsible behavior. We can now see that our bad habits will kill us if we don’t quit. It’s time to grow up. Can we stop eating too much meat, using...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 03:16 PM PST
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About one year after the 9/11 attacks on the US, the leader of the Islamic terrorist organization of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, published an open letter to America explaining why al Qaeda attacked the US on September 11, 2001. The British newspaper The...
by Deist
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 01:14 PM PST
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The end of the Cold War and the collapse of "really existing" socialism in Eastern Europe were two critical events that have had an impact on cultural studies and political economy, among other things. What are the prospects for major structural...
by annieli
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I was on my Substack today and someone reached out to me about my last post on ONE ANGRY BLACK CHICK with so much love and support I cried. It was then that I recognized that I hadn’t had one panic attack since I began writing here and elsewhere and to...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 02:53 PM PDT
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Let’s deal in oversimplifications for this argument. Imagine an extremist Christian man and an extremist Muslim man talking about their beliefs in a living room somewhere. Their discussion grows more and more heated, and, depending on the men’s...
by AliceT4
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on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 11:54 AM PDT
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The Revolution will not be televised, but it seems it will be live streamed. Things are moving quickly. I recommend this You Tube personality, I believe he strives for truth and accuracy In a time and place where there is little of both. He feels Putin...
by JPH102
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on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 07:43 AM PDT
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There are probably several colloquial sayings, somewhere along the line of telling someone they “think their shit doesn’t stink.” It’s essentially the same as telling someone they are “holier than thou,” or otherwise think they are better than everyone...
by imobannon
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 09:54 PM PST
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Sunday, January 15, 2023 is the anniversary of the birth of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1929. Monday is the federal holiday recognizing his contributions to the struggle for racial equality and social justice in the United States. Dr. King...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Jan 08, 2023 at 12:55 PM PST
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From The Guardian today: Iranian shopkeepers and lorry drivers staged a walkout in nearly 40 cities and towns on Monday after calls for a three-day nationwide general strike from protesters as the government declined to confirm a claim by a senior...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 07:30 PM PST
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Former US President Donald Trump has told the truth: I want to be America’s dictator. Using his Truth Social Internet platform, he claims “massive & widespread fraud & deception” in the 2020 election means “the termination of all rules, regulations,...
by Nevit
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on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 06:03 AM PST
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The Who: Eminence Front Promo Nope… this isn’t a screed against that tune by The Who. To the contrary, it’s lyrics poetically describe a root cause of where we’re at today as a nation. One has to be old enough to have a functional picture of how this...
by Anakai
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on Sat Mar 25, 2023 at 08:48 PM PDT
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Does it seem to you that with each dawn’s early light, we are encouraged between morning coffee and leaving home to greet the new day with a full plate of lost faith in ourselves? Are talking heads of every variant of self-serving ill-gotten gain...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 02:49 AM PDT
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Should I stay or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double The Clash, 1982 Always good for a laugh, the delusional naked Emperor may have topped our guffaws at his drink bleach suggestion to cure Covid-19...
by adoptauthor
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 08:22 AM PDT
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The Four Horsemen appear on the news every day: war, disease, famine, environmental catastrophe. Gee, who could have seen this coming? Whoever wrote the Book of Revelation two thousand years ago, for one. None of these things are exactly new in human...
by AliceT4
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on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 09:12 AM PDT
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Followers of Donald Trump are methodically placing election deniers, those who believe Biden stole the election through fraudulent voting, in crucial state positions who could legally overturn a popular vote if a Trumper candidate does not win the next...
by Nickjlicata
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on Fri Dec 31, 2021 at 03:55 PM PST
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While it may be true that history is an unreliable predictor of future events, we should not forget that it was only about 50 or so years from the the assassinations of the Gracchi Brothers to the end of the Roman Republic and about the same length of...
by Trenz Pruca
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on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 04:54 PM PST
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It has been 10 years since the launch of the Occupy movement. Ten years since ”Arab Spring". For me, the Occupy movement was an extension of what many called "Arab Spring". I had been working on an intense project with Susan and Jennifer and many, many...
by UnaSpenser
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on Sun Oct 24, 2021 at 03:02 PM PDT
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Panic is a natural first response to the awareness of what a terrible spot humanity is in. Despair often follows the panic. We have to calm down, and cheer ourselves up, before we can get to the real, urgent, practical work of saving the world....
by AliceT4
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on Sat Oct 16, 2021 at 09:46 AM PDT
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To kick off Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States this year, I’m republishing an old diary of mine about the politics behind the popularity of different musical genres in Latin America ...
by USExpat
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on Wed Sep 15, 2021 at 04:00 AM PDT
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“We are stardust, we are golden….And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” Joni Mitchell - “Woodstock” In spring, 2020, the midst of the lockdown, I was driving to the nursery, ready to start my fiftieth gardening season. “Twentieth Century...
by Gregg Matson
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on Mon Sep 06, 2021 at 08:51 AM PDT
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