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Don’t Be Afraid to Embrace the Utopian Spirit
Liza Featherstone : Review of Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Kristen Ghodsee … people have been experimenting with alternatives to the individualist, patriarchal order for thousands of years, often successfully, and are doing so still … our inability to look beyond the nuclear family leaves us isolated, working hard all by ourselves at tasks that could be better shared by many adults … The ruling class does not want us to dream of a better life, or to realize that there are alternatives to the status quo … Read here …
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We Can Start Thinking in Centuries
Peter Yeung: A new book explores how a global shift toward long-term thinking can solve the problems caused by our here-and-now mindsets. … The Long View: Why We Need To Transform How the World Sees Time, by BBC journalist Richard Fisher … We exist today because of a chain of consequences and decisions by the people who came before us, and that leads to a duty to posterity and a sense of stewardship. … Read here …
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The US and Never-ending War – Review of The U.S. and Perpetual War
Roger Stoll: John Rachel – The U.S. and Perpetual War: Interviews and Commentary … Question #11 – Who actually defines and sets America’s geopolitical priorities and determines our foreign policy? … the “blob” — the unelected, bipartisan, self-replicating network of senior Washington policymakers (NSC, DoD, CIA) plus the chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees; engaged former generals, admirals, and ambassadors; major defense contractor lobbyists; and key think-tank and media pundits… & The banksters in London and Wall Street are the essential movers and shakers of US-UK-NATO foreign policy. … Read here …
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Exceptionism in US Empire
Kim Petersen: The book – American Exception: Empire and the Deep State by Aaron Good. … The author identifies the US as exceptionist in that it serially violates its own constitution – the launching of wars and CIA cloak-and-dagger missions. … American Exception questions the notion of the United States as a democracy, as the state does not serve the masses, rather it serves the interests of the “elites,” what politicians call the national interest. … George Orwell who wrote “… a hierarchical society was only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance… Read here …
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Shaky Ground: How the United States Uses the Law to Steal Indigenous Land
Stephanie Woodard: A review of Peter d’Errico’s Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples, an indictment of a legal system with the unflinching goal of stealing as much land as possible. … exposes the capriciousness and hostility with which the United States uses the law to apply — or deny — justice to the original peoples of this land… Read here…
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Making War Usually Means More War
: Charles Douglas Lummis’ new book War is Hell: Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence … Paying attention to the news today is a lesson in how far those who desire war will go to convince the rest of us that war is the best means to solve problems between nations. This is despite the fact that history shows us time and time again that war most often does the exact opposite. -
Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book
Edward Curtin: This free eBook — The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the September 2001 Attacks (rat haus reality press, 15 March 2023) — by Graeme MacQueen contains a collection of his articles and essays on the attacks of September 11, 2001, the subsequent anthrax attacks, and analyses of other false flag operations. … Read here…
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Overcoming Christmas Controversies with Historical Realities
Nat Parry: author of How Christmas Became Christmas: The Pagan and Christian Origins of the Beloved Holiday … Ever since the adoption of Christianity as Rome’s official religion in 322 CE, the Church systematically attempted to suppress heathen gods, beliefs and customs, or to incorporate and adapt them into its catechism, all while attempting to whitewash their pagan […]