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I have just read a superb book by Mark Isaacs, an Australian who has documented several years of effort by a group...

We must find momentum through our discontent, and be “outraged enough to become even more politically active.”

If we fail to rise up we fail to do our civic duty to protect our very democracy.

Until our parenting and teaching models are radically altered, a culture of peace will remain an impossible dream. And human extinction in the near term is inevitable.

Welcome to the era of mass gaslighting. Infowars. Trump. Putin. Bin Salman. Fox News.

So, Happy Earth Day. If we actually mean it, we will elect representatives who will force the military to clean it all up.

What happens in the short-term will certainly be determined within the next several weeks. How institutions will deal with the longer-term impacts of this crisis are yet to be seen.

Progressives can put these principles in practice, and we could retain the better parts of both capitalism and socialism, leading to a happy society.

“The Indonesian elite ensures that West Papua is relatively isolated from media scrutiny, access to international agencies and diplomats (even though many western states are well known to oppose any indigenous struggle for self-determination, given it would only raise questions about their own subjugated indigenous populations).”

Here is my conspiracy theory: The empire that controls both political parties did not want Sanders to be the nominee.