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If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get Out Of The Empire
The climate crisis is itself a byproduct of 70 years of U.S. interventionism and empire.
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After Years of Abuse, the Earth Has Sent Its Bill Collectors
Just consider lone star ticks to be one of nature’s little bill collectors. Alpha-gal is the cost, with interest.
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Funding Conservation by Killing Animals: An Ironic Partnership
The anachronistic argument that we must “kill the animals to save them” is the self-serving doctrine guiding the Trump administration’s newly formed International Wildlife Conservation Council.
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The US Military Is the Biggest “Big Government” Entitlement Program on the Planet
The US economy is caught in a trap. That trap is the Department of Defense: an increasingly sticky wicket that relies on an annual, trillion-dollar redistribution of government-collected wealth. In fact, it’s the biggest “big government” program on the planet, easily beating out China’s People’s Liberation Army in both size and cost. It is not only the…
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The Robot Economy: Ready or Not, Here It Comes
September 17th changed everything. On that day in 2013, Oxford University published an innocuously titled academic paper by two mostly unknown economists. But “The Future of Employment” wasn’t just another number-crunching exercise in opacity by a couple of dreary scientists. No, their bombshell report portended a coming robot apocalypse that could change the nature of…