How Militarism Fuels The Climate Crisis — And Vice Versa
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How Militarism Fuels The Climate Crisis — And Vice Versa
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Healthcare Workers Are Fed up and Hitting the Picket Lines
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There is an uptick in labor struggles throughout the United States. As we reported last week, thousands of workers are on strike or are currently holding strike votes. For example, on Tuesday...
From Columbus to Enbridge : Colonial Exploitation Continues
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It’s somehow fitting irony as Indigenous Day approaches on Oct. 11 — once known by another name — that a new Columbus is about to pump oil through Line 3, the last tar sands pipeline. That is the...
5 Key Things to Know About the Pandora Papers
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This week we are closely watching the disclosures emerge from the Pandora Papers, a massive leak of secret data about the illicit financial activities of the super-wealthy from 200 countries. In...
Lack of Trusted Authority Is Why Covid-19 Is Kicking Our Butts
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We have faced tough times before.
World wars, famines, pandemics, economic ruin.
But in each of these disasters, the majority of people thought they had somewhere to turn for knowledge and...
Profiteering From Vaccine Inequity : a Crime Against Humanity ?
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Early in the pandemic, Pfizer announced an intention to profit from its covid-19 vaccine.1 In the first three months of 2021, Pfizer’s vaccine brought in $3.5bn (£2.5bn; €3bn) in revenue and...
Despite Our Despair, There’s a Reality Worth Fighting For
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In late July, I set out to find baby gray tree frogs. They’re emerald green and (I’ll just say it) incredibly adorable. They are also very difficult to find because they’re well-camouflaged...
Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals
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If you think elementary, middle, and high school students know too little history, geography, and government, try asking them about the corporations that command so many hours of their day, their...
Source Temple and the Great Reset
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I recently visited a spiritual community in Brazil called Source Temple. Drawing primarily on the teachings of Adi Da and A Course in Miracles, it comprises about thirty people from about ten...
Big Oil Coined ‘Carbon Footprints’ to Blame Us for Their Greed. Keep Them on the Hook.
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Personal virtue is an eternally seductive goal in progressive movements, and the climate movement is no exception. People pop up all the time to boast of their domestic arrangements or chastise...
Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed
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(A standalone Part 3 of a series. Part 1, Part 2)
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. – Joseph Goebbels
We would like to think that...
A Plague of Gods: Cultural Appropriation and the Resurgent Left Sacred
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THIS LONG-READ ESSAY FIRST APPEARED AT ANOTHER WORLD, THE GODS&RADICALS PRESS SUPPORTERS’ JOURNAL. TO GET ACCESS TO ESSAYS, AUDIO WORKS, AND OTHER ADVANCE CONTENT—AS WELL AS DISCOUNTS ON OUR...
Nomads in Search of a Villain
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In the aftermath of the 2008 housing crash, millions of Americans were unable to pay their mortgages. Some of them had always struggled financially, while others had been secure until the Great...
The Confederacy Was a Con Job on Whites - and Still Is
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I’ve lived 55 years in the South and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades — but for a reason that might surprise you.
I know the South well. We lived...
So You’re Still Being Publicly Shamed
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Review of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (Riverhead Books, 2015)
The excesses of what’s now called “cancel culture” are usually associated by mainstream and right-wing media with...
The Age of Social Murder
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The two million deaths that have resulted from the ruling elites mishandling of the global pandemic will be dwarfed by what is to follow. The global catastrophe that awaits us, already baked into...
To Reason With a Madman
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Someone sent me a video on January 19th in which the host, claiming a secret source among the White Hat power faction, said that final plans are in motion to overthrow the criminal Deep State once...
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
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A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen...
The Five Real Conspiracies You Need to Know About
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The world is awash in a deluge of dangerous conspiracy theories. Most notoriously, the bizarre QAnon fantasy postulates that a global child sex-trafficking ring is being run by liberal...
The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don’t Liberals?
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The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe Biden, however welcome many are, especially since they...