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The Sucker Bait Called Hope -- Making the best of a slow apocalypse | Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2008 We just concluded an election in which both parties talked about hope, one more so than the other. Hope, that murky, undefined belief that ...
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Roy's People: American Liberalism Needs More Roy Orbison And Less Wonk Strategy (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant Can American liberalism rise from Washington’s two-bed brothel to dance with the ghost of Roy Orbison and eat garden tomatoes? Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2006 -- 10 a.m. -- ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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