Employment

At the Recycling Machine in the Age of COVID — Mickey Z

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 8, 2021 Recently, as I neared my local C-Town supermarket, I passed its recycling station. Just outside the entrance are a couple of machines at which locals can load the bottles and cans they’ve collected.Once the metal and plastic are in the machine, the loader gets a receipt to bring to a cashier in exchange for “deposit” money. This particular mo ...

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That Time I Became Robin Hood — Mickey Z.

Eduard Muzhevskyi / Science Photo Library Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 7, 2021 With “Robin Hood” in the news recently, it’s made me hark back to a time when I engaged in some “steal from the ...

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Take Your Job and Shove It — Mickey Z.

Meme found online Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 4, 2020 Back in June 2012, as part of the Occupy Wall Street “Summer Disobedience School” (please, don’t ask), I was marching with about 75 of ...

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That Time I Gave a Lecture at Yale University — Mickey Z.

The Yale mascot celebrates a Bulldogs’ victory during the 2016 NCAA tournament. (Photo: Catherine Avalone/Hearst Connecticut Media) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 19, 2020 “Every child is an a ...

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Cabs and Cab-Nots | Mickey Z.

Still photo of Robert DeNiro on the set of “Taxi Driver” (credit unknown) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 4, 2020 Until recently, yellow cabs were a major part of the NYC experience. Thanks to ...

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‘Dying to Fish’: How Israeli Piracy Destroyed Gaza’s Once Thriving Fishing Industry | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2020 On Aug. 16, the Israeli navy declared the Gaza sea a closed military zone. A few days later, a group of Gaza fishermen decided to take t ...

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‘Palestine is Still the Issue’: UN Vote Exposes, Isolates Canada | Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo

Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo -- World News Trust Aug. 13, 2020 The notion that "Canada is better" -- especially when its foreign policy is compared with that of the Uni ...

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Study Traces Brain-To-Gut Connections | University of Pittsburgh

Two opposing circuits connecting the brain to the stomach convey either "fight or flight" or "rest and digest" commands to the gut. Credit: David Levinthal, M.D., Ph.D., and Peter Strick, Ph.D. May 1 ...

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What the Pandemic Revealed: a Morally Bankrupt Culture | Charles Hugh Smith

Monopolies, quasi-monopolies and cartels are inherently exploitive and thus evil. May 1, 2020 (OfTwoMinds.com) -- What was "normal" for the past two decades was to turn a blind eye to the moral and f ...

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A Universal Basic Income Is Essential And Will Work | Ellen Brown

A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions. Ellen Brown -- Web Of Debt April 19, 2020 According to an April 6 article on CNBC ...

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The book I should’ve written 15 years ago (but it’s WAY too late now) | Mickey Z.

CC0 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 22, 2018 It hit me while recently re-reading Andrea Dworkin’s 2002 memoir, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. I first discovered it in fa ...

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