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In Praise of the Reprehensible | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJuly 22, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- Last month’s post here on cultural senility and its antidotes discussed the way that modern education erases the past in order to defend today’s ...
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Palestine’s ‘Prayer for Rain’: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 22, 2016 Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming ...
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'Activism': The lies we have to tell ourselves | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 21, 2016 Almost exactly four years ago, I wrote an article that opened with this, um, “anecdote”: As part of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) ...
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Burnt Toast | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 20, 2016 At a most troubled moment in history, both major political parties appear set to nominate time-bomb candidates for ...
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The Long Con: Another 'Sting' on Working Stiffs | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust June 18, 2016 In the 1973 film The Sting viewers were introduced to various types of confidence games. There was the "quick con" where the ...
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“Activism”: How to Lose Friends & Influence Nobody | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 16, 2016 I’ve already told you how nothing I’ve done as an “activist” has made a difference, explained why street “activism” always fails ...
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Diminishing Returns | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJune 15, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 19th installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. ...
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Gaza: Resistance Through Poetry | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 15, 2016 “(At dawn) … I will resist ... (Since) upon the wall there is still a white sheet … And my fingers are yet to (completely) dissolve.” This ...
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The Desperate and the Dispirate | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 13, 2016 As I was leaving Detroit very early Sunday morning to catch a plane, I saw the breaking story about a “shooting incident” ...
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Do you remember your first anti-war protest? | Mickey Z.
A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration. Arlington, Virginia, USA, 21 October 1967. By S.Sgt. Albert R. Simpson. ...
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The Paris Peace Gambit: Everyone Gains except the Palestinians | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 8, 2016 In their defense, the Israelis seem to have figured out the whole thing and opted out. But the hapless Palestinian leadership, along with ...
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