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Chant 'Defund the Police' but Behave Like the Police? | Mickey Z.

Image: Revolutionary Desire (blog) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 1, 2020 “A cop sleeps inside each one of us. We must kill him.” (Situationist graffiti) It was a life-altering moment when I first laid eyes on Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle at the old St. Mark’s Bookshop (when it was still on St. Mark’s Place). To say that book inspired me to broaden my worldview is putting it mildly ...

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The Sucker Bait Called Hope -- Making the best of a slow apocalypse | Joe Bageant

Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2008 We just concluded an election in which both parties talked about hope, one more so than the other. Hope, that murky, undefined belief that som ...

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The Arc Of Our Future | John Michael Greer

July 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s open post, I noted that I didn’t have anything in particular planned for this fifth Wednesday of the month, and asked my readers what they wanted to he ...

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Why Economics Says Our Civilization is Going to Collapse | umair haque

Photo: Medium We’re a Poor Civilization That Thinks It’s a Rich One — and We’re Living Way Beyond Our Means July 28, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Like it or not, economics is destiny for civilizations. ...

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Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation | umair haque

Photo: Medium We Need Three Decades of Revolutions. But Are We Capable of It? July 25, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Any thoughtful person should understand that, at this juncture in human history, civil ...

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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 the ...

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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 by ...

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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 di ...

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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 line ...

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Chant 'Defund the Police' but Behave Like the Police? | Mickey Z.

The Sucker Bait Called Hope -- Making the best of a slow apocalypse | Joe Bageant

The Arc Of Our Future | John Michael Greer

Why Economics Says Our Civilization is Going to Collapse | umair haque

Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation | umair haque

America is Having the Mother of All Social Collapses | umair haque

Roy's People: American Liberalism Needs More Roy Orbison And Less Wonk Strategy (Joe Bageant)

WATCH: 'Why Banking Needs to Be Run as a Public Utility' | Center for Global Justice

Island of the Undesirables: AIDS, COVID-19, Confederate Prisoners, and a Million More Stories | Mickey Z.

By 2025, CO2 Will Be Highest In 3.3 Million Years | University of Southampton

If Life Feels Bleak, It’s Because Our Civilization is Beginning to Collapse | umair haque

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