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Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 29, 2005. (NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Jan. 24, 2017 (The Intercept) -- We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, w ...
Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan. 15, 2017 (Truthdig) -- Politics is a game of fear. Those who do not have the ability to make power elites afraid do not succeed. All of the movements that opened up the democ ...
Sarah Kendzior Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Tru ...
Cornel West by DW Nance. Taken during the #BernieInAL Rally with Bernie Sanders in Birmingham on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 18, 2016. (CC BY-SA 4.0)Trump’s election was enabled by the policies ...
Chris Hedges. Photo by Chris Graham. ucobserver.orgNov. 11, 2016 (TruthDig.org) -- Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this ...
Hillary Clinton official Secretary of State portraitNov. 9, 2016 (CounterPunch.org) -- “There’s no place like home.” That’s the lesson. Even when home is Kansas. The real meaning of this election is ...
The latest emails show that State and the foundation were one seamless entity Aug. 25, 2016 (Wall Street Journal) -- This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary Clinton ...
NASA/JPL/U. of Arizona Our species just stepped into a cosmic future, yet we still starve and fight each other Feb. 18, 2016 (Scientific American) -- The announcement of the first detection of stormy ...
Dec. 13, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- Third Avenue attracted considerable attention last week with the announcement that it would restrict withdrawals from its high-yield Focused Credit Fund. And rightly so: ...
Planet Hell. By suicidecrew. DeviantArt. Dec. 7, 2015 (ClimateProgress) -- It’s a Through-The-Looking-Glass world. The Washington Post reports Sunday that ExxonMobil has a far saner view of global wa ...
Nov. 4, 2015 (BCNews) -- What if there’s a technological advancement so powerful that it transforms the very basic pillars of our society? A technology that fundamentally influences the way our econo ...
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