"In the waning days of the American Empire a sort of collective madness has seemed to take hold of its ruling class. It is perhaps most clear in the unhinged and incessant decrees of the bloated emperor via tweet." https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/112236/

Angst and Madness at the End of Empire

“Recent research suggests that human societies will experience disruptions to their basic functioning within less than ten years due to climate stress. Such

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“They Are Not the Central Park 5”: Ava DuVernay’s Series Restores Humanity of Wrongly Convicted Boys

We spend the hour with Ava DuVernay, whose damning new four-part television series “When They See Us” tells the story of five teenagers of color from Harlem—four African-American and one Latino—who were wrongfully accused and convicted of raping and nearly killing a white woman out for a jog in New ...

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#scapegoating of minorities for stigma by framing https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/7/ava_duvernay_when_they_see_us

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"North America is decaying as well, but there, people are not even used to comparing. They only “feel that things are not going well”. If everything else fails, they simply try to get some second or third job, and just survive, somehow." https://off-guardian.org/2019/06/07/eu-elections-are-proof-of-europes-decay/

Going to the John

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Going to the John https://www.truthdig.com/cartoons/going-to-the-john-3/