Europe

Tearing Down the Idols of Colonialism | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudWhy Tunisia, Africa Must Demand French Apology Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 29, 2020 The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where Tunisia could have formally demanded an apology from France for the decades of French colonialism, which has s ...

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By 2025, CO2 Will Be Highest In 3.3 Million Years | University of Southampton

The composition of fossilised zooplankton shells has enabled the reconstruction of past pH and CO2. Credit: University of Southampton July 10, 2020 (Phys.org) -- By 2025, atmospheric carbon dioxide ( ...

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The Power of the Mind | John Michael Greer

July 1, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- While Andrew Jackson Davis was attracting huge crowds with his discourses in trance, and the Fox sisters were listening to tapping noises, another important 19th-centu ...

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Wanted: People Willing to Stand Up to 'Legitimate Authority' | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 25, 2020 “There is a propensity for people to accept definitions of action provided by legitimate authority … Relatively few people have the ...

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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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The epidemic that killed 8% of NYC’s population | Mickey Z.

Image source: Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 20, 2020 Yellow Fever hit New York City hard in the late 18th century. The Big Apple population at the time was 60,000 and over the ...

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The Greatest (sic) Generation also didn’t believe #BlackLivesMatter | Mickey Z.

Pfc. Victor Tampone, April 13, 1942 (public domain) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 19, 2020 Reminder: The U.S. military that fought against fascist white supremacy ("Antifa," if you will) during ...

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Everybody Knows What Titanic Lifeboats Can Teach Us About The Coronavirus Response | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 14, 2020 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows ...

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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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Antifa in Theory and in Practice | Diana Johnstone

Photo by jcrakow | CC BY 2.0 (Editor's note: This CounterPunch story is from three years ago. -Francis Goodwin) “Fascists are divided into two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists.” – Ennio ...

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A Chronicle Of A Lost Decade Foretold | Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis, Berlin 2015June 1, 2020 -- ATHENS (YanisVaroufakis.eu) -- To exorcise my worst fears about the coming decade, I chose to write a bleak chronicle of it. If, by December 2030, develop ...

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