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'Graduating' From Graduating From College: The Ivory Tower Crumbles (Carolyn Baker)
As concerns education, its purpose as presently envisaged is to enable persons to be "productive" within the context of industrial society. --Thomas Berry, The Great Work July 5, 2010 ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Letters from Palestine, By Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah (Jim Miles)
Letters from Palestine - Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. July 6, 2010 ...
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These Dreams (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 3, 2010 -- I woke up this morning after having nightmares all night. I slept later than usual because it was cooler than normal. The heat keeps me from ...
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US Economy Stuck in Misery (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 2, 2010 -- The middle class is dead. The United States has produced a self-sustaining two-class society. Most Lower Class Americans are in bad or ...
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Millennium Goals Revisited: Noble Ideas, and Feel-Good Moments (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 1, 2010 -- When the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were first declared, they were met with a sense of promise. A decade later, despite all ...
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Waltzing At The Doomsday Ball -- Joe Bageant
Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an ...
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My Tea Party (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 5, 2010 -- Now that congress has passed a fake financial reform bill that will accomplish absolutely nothing to correct a recently engrained culture of ...
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American Exceptionalism (Hal Cohen)
Hal Cohen Hal Cohen -- World News Trust June 29, 2010 -- We hear a lot about American Exceptionalism from the right. This is essentially the idea that the United States is the greatest place on ...
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The Journey From Anger To Anguish: Responding To Eco-cide (Carolyn Baker)
Messenger My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled ...
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This Year Anti-Incumbency Movement Succeeds or Fails (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust June 25, 2010 -- For some years a number of groups have mounted an anti-incumbency campaign aimed at ridding Congress of the huge majority that keep getting ...
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Say What? (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 28, 2010 -- I think America missed something. It must be the time of year, what with inhaling all those fumes from the charcoal starter... and fueling ...
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