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Appalachia: Murder always happens for a reason

Appalachia: Murder always happens for a reason

Hurricane Helene has arrived just in time to clear out the property owners local to the mining interests in Western North Carolina. Piedmont Lithium was heavily opposed in Gaston County by local residents and commissioners. But now it appears the opposition has been eliminated.

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Fear and Loathing in New Normal Germany

Fear and Loathing in New Normal Germany

If you criticize the government, or if you compare the government to Nazi Germany, and if you do that using your book-cover art featuring a swastika behind a Covid mask, then you’re absolutely officially a “hate criminal,” and an “anti-Semite,” and a “trivializer of the Holocaust.”

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Green Jobs or Greenwashing?

Green Jobs or Greenwashing?

Behind each piece of green technology is extraction. A recent International Energy Agency report estimates that reaching “net zero” by 2050 would require six times the amount of minerals used today.

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Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors

Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors

This is post-9/11 America. Whether about surveillance, or torture, or habeas corpus, or secret prisons, or rendition, or any of a dozen other things, we ignore laws. Institutional impunity is the chief characteristic of our current form of government.

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