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Learning From Failure: A Modest Introduction | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerAug. 24, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- The other day, one of the readers over at the other blog (Well of Galabes) asked a question as sensible as it is timely: why do so many sane ...
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An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is the Fountain of Youth | Benjamin Wallace
Leonard Guarente is certain he’s succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career. Aug. 23, 2016 (New York Magazine) -- I recently ...
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Dark Dynamics | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 22, 2016 What the world is witnessing, without actually paying much attention, is the death of our debt-based economy -- that is, ...
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BOOKS: Through a Glass Darkly: A Poetry Review - I Remember My Name
Reviewed by Hatim Kanaaneh World News Trust Aug. 22, 2016 (I Remember My Name -- Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso. Vacy Vlazna, ed., 2016, Novum Publishing. Kindle Edition.) In ...
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Invasion of the Empire's Pods | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 20, 2016 Remember the famous 1950s film Invasion of the Body Snatchers? It was produced to show the American public just how terrible ...
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Masculinity goes to the movies... | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2016 Recently, I was tagged on Facebook to participate in something called the “80s Music Challenge.” I excitedly agreed but such ...
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War to ‘stop’ war: Libya’s ‘Operation Odyssey Lightning’ | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2016 Everyone seems to have a theory on how to obliterate ISIS, or "Daesh." However, two points are rarely raised: one, concerning the origins ...
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Retrotopia: Dinner, Drinks, and Hard Questions | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerAug. 17, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 22nd installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. ...
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BOOKS: It Can’t Happen Here | Emanuele Corso
Book Review -- “It Can’t Happen Here” -- Sinclair Lewis Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2016 Yes it can happen here, and some would say it’s already happening. Written in 1935, Sinclair ...
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Burning Down the House | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2016 There’s a new feature to the Anything-Goes-and-Nothing-Matters economy: Nothing-Adds-Up. The magicians who pretend to ...
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That time I met Freddie Mercury (nbd) | Mickey Z.
Freddy Mercury. By Richard E. Aaron. rockpix.com (Used with permission) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2016 I was a precocious concert-goer, what can I say? Scoring 15th row tickets for ...
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