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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
February 11, 2018
Christmas may seem like a distant memory but the environmental effect of the annual consumer frenzy, over-indulgence and extravagance is lasting damage. And year on year the cost to the planet grows.
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Dec. 24, 2017
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by James Petras
Global Research
Originally published Dec. 28, 2013
Dec. 23, 2017
Introduction
The transformation of Christmas from a story about a migrant working-class family fleeing state persecution, in the search for a safe haven and receiving support and solidarity to the biggest capitalist commercial bonanza of the year – has far-reaching political consequences.
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Note: DS updated this post yesterday with a new interview with Abby Martin on the same topic: Abby Martin: Coca Farmers Massacred In Colombia Under Pressure From Trump
Originally published Dec. 24, 2014
with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 24, 2014
Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay.
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published December 1, 2013
November 25, 2017
The holidays are at hand. Boycott Season is in effect. As the snow starts to fall, the commercial war of the season asserts its dominance. Our identities as citizens are quickly buried in a blizzard of advertising that defines us as consumers.
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by Henry Hagins
Workers World, Dec. 16, 2014
Originally published Dec. 24, 2015
December 25, 2016
The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise military, political and economic supremacy over each other in Europe and in the colonized world, to which these imperial powers lay arrogant false claim. One of the bloodiest episodes in human history, World War I was largely played out on the battle-scarred lands of France and Belgium, starting in August of 1914.
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Originally published Dec. 24, 2014
with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 24, 2014
Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay. Continue reading
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by Henry Hagins
Workers.org, Dec. 16, 2014
December 24, 2015
The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise military, political and economic supremacy over each other in Europe and in the colonized world, to which these imperial powers lay arrogant false claim. One of the bloodiest episodes in human history, World War I was largely played out on the battle-scarred lands of France and Belgium, starting in August of 1914.
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Originally published Dec. 24, 2014
with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 24, 2014
Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay. Continue reading
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 24, 2014
Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay Continue reading
by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation
December 22, 2014
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It’s the Season of Goodwill – and Western governments are showering us with a medley of their “gifts”. Sanctions, austerity, lethal military aid and red-hot coals of conflict.
Meanwhile, the contrast of Russian humanitarian aid to Ukraine could not be greater or more telling. This week another convoy of trucks from Russia – at least the tenth so far in recent months – is due to arrive in eastern Ukraine, bearing food, clothing, heating and toys for the war-torn children of Luhansk and Donetsk. Continue reading
In case you missed this from last year posted at the end of an article. Merry Christmas!
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StoptheWarCoalition on Sep 8, 2013
http://noglory.org/ Video by Heathcote Williams and Alan Cox. On Christmas 1914 in the first world war, thousands of troops on both sides unilaterally declared a truce and played football friendlies instead of trying to kill each other. Their officers moved quickly to stamp out such peaceful developments and in the following four years 16 million people were slaughtered.
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