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Religious Mafia

I am reproducing a Substack piece by Chris Hedges:    When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of … Continue reading

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Secrets

There are secrets and there is Victoria’s Secret. The Head of Victoria’s Secret Says Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Like Roman Emperors BY Katie Reilly November 2, 2016 at 11:20 AM EDT NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 07: Les Wexner … Continue reading

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Iraq and Seduction by Delusions

I was watching an old, rare archive piece of film, introduced by Christopher Hitchens, which appeared to show Saddam Hussein asserting his control over the Ba’ath Party, sorting loyalists from covert opposition at a conference. Hitchens was referring to a … Continue reading

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Iran’s dream of democracy once oil was discovered

This was the ceremonial and spiritual capital of a vast empire, built by Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, titans whose names still echo through history. Giant statues of winged bulls guard the Gate of All Nations, through which princes from vassal … Continue reading

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19th century, London and Moscow

This classic book is a ‘must read’ by any British person or anyone fascinated by the emergence of the ‘class system’ in this country. Penguin have managed to keep this book available as a hardback,but also as an eBook. I … Continue reading

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Phase out fossil fuels: no choice

I’m reproducing The Conversation newsletter which was emailed to me. It is a response to Tony Blair’s recent advice to not phase out fossil fuels with the Net Zero objective:

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Al Gore, his speech at Climate Week

April 2025, Climate Week, 77 year old Al Gore gave this speech which you can also see and hear on YouTube. Thanks to Robert Reich for reproducing this speech on Substack. It is abundantly clear, after only three months and … Continue reading

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Insult upon insult

Each of us has either lost our homeland, knows of family who has, or doesn’t know their ancestors did so in recent centuries. But all of us have origins from thousands of years ago back in pre- Christian times, when … Continue reading

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Blue collar or white collar? Is it universal?

https://www.payscale.com/career-advice/salary-comparison-blue-collar-white-collar/ Reading the above, created in 2009, it is interesting to see their comparisons of salaries. This was as the world was trying to recover from the sub prime mortgage risk lending catastrophe which resulted in a global financial crisis. … Continue reading

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Poisonous Words spread by Elon Musk inciting hatred and violence

We in Britain are proud of our tradition of welcoming and including immigrants in our society. The world has seen, through media outlets, how some poisoned hearts and minds have used social media to attack the fair and just immigration … Continue reading

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