Economy
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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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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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It’s not a level playing field. It’s a jigsaw puzzle with a lot of missing pieces. | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 15, 2017 “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal ...
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Building the Institutions for Revolt | Chris Hedges
Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan. 15, 2017 (Truthdig) -- Politics is a game of fear. Those who do not have the ability to make power elites afraid do not succeed. All of the movements that opened up the ...
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One Evening in '88 on a Flight to Phoenix | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Jan. 5, 2017 Reading about the current controversy over the United States abstaining on the Security Council's Israeli settlement ...
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3 Ways to Recognize an Emergency in 2017 | Mickey Z.
By Willy Stöwer, died on 31st May 1931 , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 3, 2017 Let’s say you were strolling down the street when you spied a small child who had drifted ...
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A Leap in the Dark | John Michael Greer
Hobart Vosburg Roberts , A Leap in the Dark, c 1920. - Hobart Vosburgh Roberts (1874-1959) was one of the nation’s most recognized amateur wildlife photographers in the first decades of the 20th ...
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The Real “Takers” in America: The Unproductive, Rent-Extracting Rich | Michael Lind
Dec. 29, 2016 (Evonomics) -- You don’t have to be a Tea Party conservative to believe that the economy is threatened when there are too many “takers” and not enough “makers.” The “takers” who ...
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It Can't Happen Here? | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 28, 2016 Sinclair Lewis's 1935 satire of the same name as the title of this essay (without the question mark) was meant to be a ...
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IMF Head Christine Lagarde Convicted in French Negligence Trial | Gaspard Sebag
Christine Lagarde-- Lagarde won’t face fine, prison term in case, judge says -- IMF head faced negligence charge for arbitration payout Dec. 19, 2016 (Bloomberg) -- Christine Lagarde was convicted ...
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