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Island of the Undesirables: AIDS, COVID-19, Confederate Prisoners, and a Million More Stories | Mickey Z.
Claire Yaffa Children With Aids Photograph Collection, PR 290 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 15, 2020 Imagine a tiny, off-limits, allegedly haunted island upon which prisoners are recruited to di ...
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BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 14, 2006 “Well, good lordie, you really was writin' a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” That was my friend Fat Larr ...
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When Will Things Get Back to Normal? | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 2, 2020 This article is an update, a “re-set,” if you will… Preamble: On the liner notes for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album, it’s explaine ...
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Laura D: The Fall and Rise of a Homeless Artist | Mickey Z.
Laura D teaching watercolors at a homeless shelter (Courtesy of Laura D) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 30, 2020 “The only place I felt I did anything right was art class.” Those are the words of ...
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Reinventing Activism, Part 2: What Would a Personal Trainer Do? | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 29, 2020 (Part 1 of this series can be found here) The first line of the book, Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies, reads as follows: “W ...
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Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball | Joe Bageant
Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an Anglo ...
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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid | Ellen Brown
June 22, 2020 (Web of Debt) -- BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to tri ...
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Live from Planet Norte | Joe Bageant
Totalitarian democracy and the politics of plunder Joe Bageant -- World News Trust June 27, 2010 WINCHESTER, Va. -- Starting with the Homeland Security probe at Washington's Reagan Airport, arrival b ...
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The Great Reset | World Economic Forum
The Great Reset: A Unique Twin Summit to Begin 2021 “The Great Reset” will be the theme of a unique twin summit in January 2021, convened by the World Economic Forum. “The Great Reset” is a commitmen ...
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Amidst the racial strife, we’re ignoring a pandemic (no, not THAT pandemic) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 8, 2020 What if I were to tell you about a virtually ignored state of emergency, a lethal pandemic of which the exact numbers will never be ...
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It's Official: U.S. Economy Is In A Recession | NPR
June 8, 2020 (NPR) -- It may seem obvious, with double-digit unemployment and plunging economic output. But if there was any remaining doubt that the United States is in a recession, it's now been re ...
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