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  By Starre Vartan I probably look just like this sometimes after a day online – and I don’t want to anymore. An accidental digital detox shocked me into making a change. Several years ago, my partner and I headed up to Oregon for a time out from the busy San Francisco Bay area. It was to be a respite…
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  Americans have been trained by decades of Cold War propaganda to look for any confirmation that socialism means poverty. But in the case of Venezuela and other states not governed by the free market, this cliché simply doesn’t ring true. The political and economic crisis facing Venezuela is being…
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  The Tax Justice Network produces a Financial Secrecy Index, ranking countries for the assistance their legal systems provide, to money-launderers, and to all people who seek to protect corruptly-obtained wealth. The higher the score, the more corrupt the government is. The previous time this Index was published, in…
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  If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes. Brussels was insisting in 2017 that this is an internal, domestic, Spanish issue, even if the ex-Catalan president at that time, Puidgemont, along with four members of his…
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  By Xekleidoma(I am an instrument in the hands of the forces of light that eagerly prompt me what to share) Basically there are three phases in the plans of the light forces for planet Earth and its inhabitants:1. Loosening the grip of the dark forces by weakening and eliminating their power structures and…
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  By Stephen Robert U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017 America has always acted as a brake on the Israeli right wing’s more destructive moves to sabotage peace. Trump has ended that.Many, including…
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  By Richard Haier Kevin Mitchell’s Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are is a book for high school students. And I mean that as a compliment. Profound misunderstandings about the genetic nature of human beings lie at the heart of the social justice movement, as well as some education reforms,…
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  By Bernhard Guenther Many well-meaning activists are raising awareness about the issues our world and humanity are facing. That is definitely needed and necessary. However, what is important to understand is that everything we see on a global level – the ongoing wars, human rights atrocities, oppression,…
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  By Dave Lindorff Did unrealistic war experience lead to Trump’s former advisor’s overconfidence? A number of military experts – including the defense secretary, James Mattis – have warned that a U.S. war against North Korea would be hard, incredibly destructive and bloody, with…
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  Take a look at the title page of February 24-March 2, 2018, cover of The Economist magazine: Now consider one of the earliest cartoons that used this image: The Rothschild banking family of England – Coin’s Financial School (1894) At least 26% of the British Economist is owned…
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