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Eugenics and the Discriminatory Misuse of Gene Science Explored
A beautiful, troubling reminder… A must-watch. — Erik Peterson, Assoc. Prof. of the History of Science, University of Alabama, Author, The Shortest History of Eugenics In The Name of the Gene Directed by Stephanie Welch Produced by Stephanie Welch, Andrew Kimbrell, Jed Riffe The concept of a “gene” — which came about during the Gilded […]
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Celebrating Nicaragua’s Gains and Feeling Anguish for Gaza
1999: Hurricane Mitch Aftermath The image is forever seared in my mind: Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds. It was the summer of 1999, and […]
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Why the Republican Party Is Trying to Cut Healthcare to the Poor
On May 7, the AP headlined “House GOP backing off some Medicaid cuts as report shows millions of people would lose health care,” and reported: House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill, as they run into […]
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Those Chinese Peasants
Some would posit, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything.” US president Donald Trump is not beholden to that epithet and neither is his vice-president JD “I don’t like China” Vance. Previously, in January 2018, Trump was criticized for referring to Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries.” On 8 April 2025, […]
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Trump’s Main Targets to be Cut
Trump’s Presidency thus far exhibits the most extreme example that I have ever found of a national leader who not only represents ONLY the extremely rich but who especially despises the poor — it’s a value-system that a person’s moral value is his/her net worth: a person’s value is his/her wealth, neither more nor less […]
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Corporate Vision for the Future of Food
Sainsbury’s is one of the ‘big six’ supermarkets in the UK. In 2019, it released its Future of Food report. It is not merely a misguided attempt at forecasting future trends and habits; it reads more like a manifesto for corporate control and technocratic tyranny disguised as ‘progress’. This document epitomises everything wrong with the […]
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The Brutalization of Education and the Closing of the American Mind
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. ― Aeschylus, Agamemnon One of the most disturbing trends I have witnessed over the course of my forty-nine years is the hijacking of American […]
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