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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
October 20, 2017
Irrespective of nationality, religion, race, or gender; whether stinking rich, desperately poor, or somewhere in between, happiness is the one thing everyone is seeking – consciously or not.
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with Abby Martin
teleSUR English on Oct 18, 2017
In this second installment of special coverage Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath, Abby Martin explores how the petrochemical industry dominates the city and why its low-income, Black and Latino areas are in the highest-risk areas for flooding and pollution, earning them the name “sacrifice zones.”
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with Abby Martin
teleSUR English on Oct 14, 2017
After a flurry of media attention, the devastation in Houston, Texas from Hurricane Harvey faded from public view. But after unprecedented floods and widespread destruction, the story is far from over.
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with Michael Hudson, Noam Chomsky, Max Keiser, and John Perkins
Renegade Inc. on Sep 13, 2013
RenegadeInc.com brings you FOUR HORSEMEN – an award winning independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works.
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with Howard Zinn
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally posted February 5, 2014
October 1, 2017
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell, 1984
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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
September 29, 2017
The pressures of modern life are colossal; for young people — those under 25 years of age — they are perhaps greater than at any other time. Competition in virtually every aspect of contemporary life, a culture obsessed with image and material success, and the ever-increasing cost of living are creating a cocktail of anxiety and self-doubt that drives some people to take their own lives and many more to self-abuse of one kind or another.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Sept 24, 2017
President of the Republic of Namibia, Dr. Hage Geingob, discusses how his country, which achieved independence from neighboring apartheid South Africa in 1990, is now fighting for justice and economic emancipation from global banks, corporations and foreign governments seeking to extract the developing country’s natural resources.
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teleSUR English on Sep 20, 2017
Speech in the 72nd General Assembly in New York, Sept. 19, 2017.
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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
September 15, 2017
Scan the mainstream media for news about Ethiopia and discover headline after headline describing the country’s economic successes: double-digit economic growth, foreign investment and aspirations to become a middle-income country by 2030. Ethiopia, we are told, is a functioning democracy, an African tiger economy and an important ally of Western governments.
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
September 13, 2017
The monster of economic waste—over $7 trillion of dictated stock buybacks since 2003 by the self-enriching CEOs of large corporations—started with a little noticed change in 1982 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under President Ronald Reagan. That was when SEC Chairman John Shad, a former Wall Street CEO, redefined unlawful ‘stock manipulation’ to exclude stock buybacks.
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Updated: Oct. 5, 2017
by Eric Schechter aka LeftyMathProf
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
Eric’s Rants and Videos blog
September 11, 2017
“The world is facing terrible problems, but it’s not too late for us to solve them if we work together.”
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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Previously posted Oct. 12, 2010
September 7, 2017
buddhagem on August 07, 2007
The myth that capitalism works conveniently ignores reality. In this video, political scientist and activist Michael Parenti debunks this popular myth.
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street, September 4, 2017
Previously published at Counterpunch, August 25, 2017
September 6, 2017
Racism’s Surface and Deeper Levels
The United States, where median Black household wealth is less than 7 cents on the white household dollar and where the mild slogan “Black lives matter” is considered controversial, is still very much a racist nation. Grasping the nature of this national racism in 21stcentury means looking at the different levels on which race operates here. One level is at the nation’s discursive and symbolic surface. It is about language, imagery, signs, the color of elite personnel, representation, and, well, symbols.
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by Deirdre Griswold
Workers World, Aug. 29, 2017
September 2, 2017
Aug. 29 — The coasts of Texas and Louisiana have become an ongoing crime scene. The crime is against the millions of people living along the Gulf of Mexico as well as their property — and it is a crime against nature itself.
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by Seth Uzman
Socialist Worker, Aug. 30, 2017
September 1, 2017
STORMS ARE natural, but what happens in response to them is not. Flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which smashed into the Gulf Coast on August 25, has left at least nine people dead, thousands in need of rescue on rooftops or in boats, hundreds of thousands more without power and tens of thousands in need of shelter.
