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I Believe: ‘For Us To Survive and Thrive In The New Century, We Must...
Reprinted from Burlington Free Press Here’s a question I hear asked more and more by friends and neighbors in the Green Mountains of Vermont: How might we in Vermont create a more sustainable world...
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Is The Collapsing Empire and Its Police State Worth Fighting For? By Simon Black
ORIGINAL ARTICLE In 43 BC, over 2,000 years ago, warring consuls Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian were duking it out with each other over control of Rome following Julius Caesar’s assassination the prior...
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Recognizing The Language of Tyranny, By Chris Hedges
ORIGINAL POST Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates...
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Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops On U.S. Senators
ORIGINAL ARTICLE [A jaw-dropping and terrifying expose of how the U.S. military uses psychological operations to coerce legislators to vote in favor of the Afghanistan War.--CB] The U.S. Army illegally...
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Where Was Osama Bin Laden On September 11, 2001? By Michel Chossudovsky
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Author’s note The following article was first published on the 9th of September 2006, in the context of the 2006 commemoration of the tragic event of September 2001. September 11,...
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Obama’s Most Fateful Decision, By Jim Garrison
ORIGINAL ARTICLE The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, if signed into law, will signal the death knell of our constitutional republic and the formal inception of a legalized police state in the...
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All I Want For Christmas Is My Civil Liberties, By Coleen Rowley
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Sad, isn’t it, that just one day before Christmas, we have to stand out in the cold and worry about getting another big lump of coal from our politicians?! But unfortunately it’s...
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The Christian Right And The Rise Of American Fascism, By Chris Hedges
Reprinted from The ChristianLeft.Org Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School , told us that when we were his age, he was then close to 80, we would all be fighting the...
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NSA Taps Into Internet Giants’ Systems To Mine User Data, By Glenn Greenwald...
Reposted from The Guardian The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained...
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Edward Snowden: Hero Or Traitor? It Depends On Who You Are, By Gary Stamper
Reposted from Collapsing Into Consciousness With the continuing release of secret files on the NSA’s spying programs on American citizens, spying programs supported in their entirety by the Obama...
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Complete Transcript Of Guardian Q & A With Ed Snowden
Reposted from Common Dreams At 11 AM EST today, The Guardian hosted a live question and answer session with the Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Administrator contractor. The...
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A Necessary Third Open Letter To Melissa Harris-Perry, By Gary Leupp
Reposted from Counterpunch Dear Melissa, I did not have access to MSNBC while in Asia over the past week. But the mother of a former student of mine, a very progressive woman, was thoughtful enough to...
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Prometheus Among The Cannibals: The Edward Snowden Story, By Rebecca Solnit
Reposted from Tom Dispatch Dear Edward Snowden, Billions of us, from prime ministers to hackers, are watching a live espionage movie in which you are the protagonist and perhaps the sacrifice. Your way...
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Obedience To Corporate-State Authority Makes Consumer Society Increasingly...
Reposted from Truthout Fifty years ago this month, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram published a groundbreaking article describing a unique human behavior experiment. The study and its many variations,...
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The Last Gasp Of American Democracy, By Chris Hedges
Reposted from Truthdig This is our last gasp as a democracy. The state’s wholesale intrusion into our lives and obliteration of privacy are now facts. And the challenge to us—one of the final ones, I...
View ArticleTrumpenfuhrer: Magnetizing The American Shadow, By Carolyn Baker
When an individual or a society will not confront its shadow, it invariably projects it onto the “other.” The shadow loves nothing more than the notion of exceptionalism. In fact, it thrives on it....
View ArticleThe Madness of King Donald: Protecting One’s Sanity And Soul, By Carolyn Baker
King Donald is the ultimate finished product of industrial civilization’s paradigm and the consummate mirror of our personal and collective shadows. It may be that before he completes his first term,...
View ArticleAwaiting Our Own Reichstag Fire, By Richard Heinberg
In this war of the elites, those who understand the “crisis of civilization” and are working to build community resilience as a response should be wary of hyper-partisanship. It may be essential over...
View ArticleHeavy Lies The Crown, By Michael Meade
Chaos in the White House reflects the deepening turmoil in the psyche of the president as deep-seated inner conflicts become projected as radical dangers and threats in the outside world. Because there...
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