https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/ronald-reagan-october-surprise-carter-iran-hostage-crisis-conspiracy/
Jacobinmag
Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” Plot Was Real After All
A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected: Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign worked behind the scenes to delay the release of US hostages in Iran, for the benefit of Reagan’s election campaign. It raises the question:…
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Cities like New York, Berlin, and Austin are not “cool” because of their public transportation or how many jobs there are there; instead, they were all direct beneficiaries of a cycle in which artists, punks, and general counterculture types ended up moving there when they were still cheap, treating these underpopulated cities as places where they could live affordably and in close quarters with likeminded people, together producing the sort of radical art and culture that end up being cool enough to get vacuumed into the city’s self-conception, after which a bunch of yuppies move in and fuck it all up.
"The World Wildlife Fund reports that in the last 40 years, wildlife population numbers have declined by 60 percent due to climate change, loss of habitat, and other human-influenced environmental factors. The climate is changing at such a rapid rate that many species can’t adapt."
"In a groundbreaking recent study, researchers ... constructed an “Index of Economic Democracy” and found a statistically significant relationship between levels of economic democracy and both inequality and labor productivity. When measured against other OECD countries, the United States finished dead last in both the raw and weighted Index of Economic Democracy."
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/index-systemic-trends#mass-incarceration
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/index-systemic-trends#mass-incarceration
TheNextSystem.org
The Index of Systemic Trends
One of the signs that a crisis is systemic, rather than purely political or economic, is that key indicators decline or stay the same regardless of changes in political power or business cycles. This first edition of the Index of Systemic Trends is an effort…
I changed the time at which I send the articles. Do you prefer it as it is now or as it was before?
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Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩 pinned «I changed the time at which I send the articles. Do you prefer it as it is now or as it was before?»
A new Global Ecosocialist Network has been launched.
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