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US is no longer a full democracy, EIU warns | Nyshka Chandran
Jan. 25, 2017 (CNBC) -- The United States has been demoted from a full democracy to a flawed democracy for the first time, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Every year, the firm's ...
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Forty Plus Years Later & Nothing Changes | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Jan. 24, 2017 In January of 1974 I was engaged to my first wife and searching for a job. My major in Speech & Theater was ineffectual as to ...
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Get Ready For The First Shocks Of Trump's Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein
Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 29, 2005. (NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Jan. 24, 2017 (The Intercept) -- We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, ...
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Thoughts on 'It Can’t Happen Here' | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust I wrote this essay last November following the election. I was disheartened, to say the least, and I am republishing here as a reflection on current developments ...
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He Is Risen… But For How Long? | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 23, 2017 If the first 48 hours are any measure of the alleged Trumptopia-to-come, the leading man in this national melodrama ...
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Rebuilding Activism from the Ground Up | Mickey Z.
Photo by Ryan McGuire Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 22, 2017 I. I recognized a familiar sound I’d just finished working with a personal training client near Central Park before hopping on a ...
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Nothing fundamentally wrong with US public education | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Jan. 19, 2017 There is nothing fundamentally wrong with public education in the United States; it is not the monster right-wing millionaires and their on-a-leash ...
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The Hate that Dare Not Speak its Name | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJan. 18, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- As the United States stumbles toward the last act of its electoral process two days from now, and the new administration prepares to take over ...
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Obama cuts short Chelsea Manning's prison sentence | AP
Chelsea Manning, arrested in 2010 as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 in a military court of leaking more than 700,000 secret military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks. From: ...
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Insane Clown President: Matt Taibbi Chronicles Election of 'Billionaire Hedonist' Donald Trump | Democracy Now
Credit: Rolling Stone Jan. 17, 2017 (Democracy Now) -- As a new study by Oxfam finds the world’s eight richest men control as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity, the group says it is ...
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The Balancing Act is Over: What Elor Azaria Taught Us about Israel | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 17, 2017 For some, the "manslaughter" conviction -- following the murder by Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, of already incapacitated ...
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