Culture

Lost in the American Undertow (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Apr. 18, 2011 -- The United States has always maintained a white underclass -- citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cushion national economic shocks through the disposability of their labor, with occasional time off to serve as bullet magnets in defense of the Empire. Until the post-World War II era, the existence of ...

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Study unveils the unstable nature of some topological phases | Ingrid Fadelli

Image representing time-reversal symmetry. Credit: McGinley & Cooper Aug. 11, 2020 (Phys.org) -- In recent years, physicists worldwide have been conducting studies exploring the characteristics and d ...

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Gene, a Guy I Once Knew (in 3 Acts) | Mickey Z.

Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 10, 2020 Have you ever randomly remembered a person from your past? Not someone with whom you were close, but a unique acquaintance. This recently h ...

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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 fi ...

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The Plan to Destroy American Democracy | umair haque

Photo: Medium How Trump Plans to Steal the Election Aug. 1, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- By now, the plan to steal the next election is as plain as day — for anyone who cares to look that is. Why it’s p ...

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Little Ideas Can Add Up to a Beautiful Beginning | Mickey Z.

YouTube screenshot Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 30, 2020 As he was for many martial artists of my generation, Bruce Lee was a catalyst and inspiration for my own studies. In fact, I specificall ...

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Donald Trump, American Dictator | umair haque

Trump Doesn’t Need to Delay an Election to Spoil It July 30, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) --By now, you’ve probably heard that Donald Trump announced he wants to… delay the election. Cue a firestorm. So. H ...

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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 World is Horrified by Trump’s America | umair haque

Trump Led America Off the Cliffs of Disease, Poverty, Authoritarianism, and Chaos, and the World is Appalled July 29, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Every single day, every single person I talk to who’s n ...

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The Silurian Hypothesis | Michele Diodati

Image: Medium What geological traces could have left a hypothetical industrial civilization that flourished and disappeared many millions of years ago? July 27, 2020 (The Startup) -- As far as we kno ...

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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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