Analysis

The End of the Dream | John Michael Greer

Oct. 20, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a while now I’ve been mulling over a handful of often-repeated comments on this blog, and I find that if I look through them, into the landscape of ideas that structure them, it’s possible to glimpse some of the ...

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Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents | Ramzy Baroud

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. (Photo: Palfest, via Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 18, 2021 The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel ...

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Heroes or Parasites: Europe’s Self-serving Politics on Refugees | Ramzy Baroud

A fishing boat carrying refugees dock in Lampedus, Italy. (Photo: Vito Manzari, via Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 13, 2021 Language is politics and politics is power. This ...

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That Untraversed Land | John Michael Greer

Oct. 6 ,2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been just over a month since I started talking about how the predictions set out in 1972 by The Limits to Growth were coming true in our time. Since then the situ ...

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Why COVID-19 vaccination rates are lower in rural areas of the US | Lily Datz

Credit: Syracuse University Oct. 5, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- A combination of higher Trump vote share and lower educational attainment help explain the lower COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural areas ...

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A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past | Ellen Brown

Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage. Oct. 1, 2021 (Web of Debt) -- Lack of fresh water is now a global crisis. Water sh ...

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The Untold Story of Why Palestinians Are Divided | Ramzy Baroud

Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub attends by video conference a meeting with deputy Hamas chief Saleh Arouri. (Photo: Video Grab) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 29, 2021 The political divis ...

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Should Hamas, Hezbollah Learn from the Taliban? | Ramzy Baroud

Taliban fighters. (Photo: Isafmedia, via Wikimedia Commons) On Afghanistan and Legitimate Resistance Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 28, 2021 An urgent task awaits us: Considering the progress ...

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Who Represents Afghanistan: Genuine Activists vs ‘Native Informants’ | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 22, 2021 Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul International Airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidat ...

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One Man as a Whole Generation: The Unfinished War of Zakaria Zubeidi | Ramzy Baroud

Palestinian political prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi. (Photo: File) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 22, 2021 Zakaria Zubeidi is one of six Palestinian prisoners who, on Sept. 6, tunneled their way o ...

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Not Getting Vaccinated to Own Your Fellow Libs | Eoin Higgins

They’ve aligned themselves with forces they despise. But lefty anti-vaxxers don’t see the contradiction Sept. 22, 2021 (The Atlantic) -- Conspiracy theorists who discount the safety and efficacy of C ...

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