Books

Like the seasons, too, we must change… | Mickey Z.

Photo/Collage by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 20, 2018 Mickey Z.: What other career paths did you consider and why? Kristen H.: I never considered any other career path. *** My fifth book, 50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know, came out in 2005. Kristen Henderson of Antigone Rising wrote one of the blurbs, calling my work “a reminder that complacency is so not sexy.” ...

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The Cosmic Doctrine: The Dawn of Manifestation | John Michael Greer

June 13, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th-century occult philosophy. Climb ...

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Bad Faith and Worse Hairstyles | John Michael Greer

June 6, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- For the last few weeks, I’ve been making my way through the dense prose of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, the most important work to come out of the existen ...

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Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 30, 2018 On February 20, 2018, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, ...

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On Occult Literature: A Diversion of Sorts | John Michael Greer

Occult vibrations 1600 block of Lamont Street, NW. By rockcreek, Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)May 30, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- It so happens that last week’s post on reading books by dead people had a curi ...

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The Choice of a Canon | John Michael Greer

May 23, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on the spooky dimensions of reading -- the one-on-one encounter, in the silent places of the mind, with another person’s thinking -- sparked a lively ...

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BOOKS: Retreat From a Rising Sea | Dr. Jeff Masters

Above: An excellent example of a well-managed strategic retreat from the coast occurred in 1999 when the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks was moved 2,900 feet back from an ero ...

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Fake News Is Fake Amerika | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 18, 2018 As a columnist, I must get to the point on key events that have shaped our future as a republic. Let it be known that what I ...

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The book I should’ve written 15 years ago (but it’s WAY too late now) | Mickey Z.

CC0 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 22, 2018 It hit me while recently re-reading Andrea Dworkin’s 2002 memoir, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. I first discovered it in fa ...

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The Babbitt Fallacy, and Other Ways to Lose | John Michael Greer

Feb. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’ve been thinking quite a bit about some of the habits of thought that form, or rather deform, the collective conversation of our time. Partly, of course, that’s bec ...

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BOOKS: Notes On A Foreign Country, by Suzy Hansen | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2017 I don’t very often publish book reviews but, in this case, I believe this book to be of great value to anyone trying to make sense of where our country ...

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