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Doomsday Trigger for Megadrought?
One of the worst North American droughts in history could be getting a whole lot worse.
Global Ecosystem Collapse
Either humanity immediately comes together to embrace universal liberty, ecology, fairness and justice, or alone we each face a violent, gut wrenching end of being.
Bungling Toward Oblivion: A Letter to My Friends in Russia
Empathy is a human quality that is best engendered through a personal acquaintance with individuals.
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Waters is Right
The Israeli government makes no pretense of observing the most basic protocols of war: minimizing civilian deaths, proportionality, avoiding the targeting of third party non-combatants like the UN.
A Teacher Remembers His Class Before the Age of Facebook
Thirty-five human beings sharing the same space met in real time and bonded around a common experience. But, that world in education is slowly slipping away.
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Recruiting to Kill in Gaza
Western involvement in the war on the Palestinian people is indeed going beyond the usual and known support of funds, military technology and economic aid, to actual participation in …
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Nasty Neural Habits: Take Two Positive Thoughts and Call Me in the Morning
Human beings are amazingly resilient, and that resilience is part of our core being.
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Anti-Drone Activist’s One-Year Sentence Will Not Deter Movement
In her sentencing statement, Grady-Flores talked about one final perversion of justice: the reversal of who is the real victim.
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History Shows Why Guatemalans Flee
In the modern history of Guatemala, migrants of all ages are escaping the wreckage of genocide, exacerbated by economic policies, both of which the US helped bring about.
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Engines of Destruction
Maybe we are already on the eternal train of global capitalism that is taking us for a ride.