Category: History
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American Uprising
On Our Own The year 2020 continues to be a time where the world is on fire both figuratively and literally. You’d be silly to think it wasn’t. In the United States, people have finally realized that ‘we the people’ are on our own. No saviors are coming to make everything better. I’m sure the…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus “The government is removing very young children to no one,” Cubas said. “But our courts are in a state of emergency. Our media is COVID-19 all the time. We don’t even have congressional hearings right now in full force. There is less scrutiny.” #Trump #Deportations #Mexico #LatinAmerica…
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Welcome to the Freak Show
“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.” – George Carlin The World Has Too Many Freaks So far, 2020 has been one hell of a roller coaster ride that is yet to end. A global pandemic has hit the United…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘Dengue kills too’: Latin America faces two epidemics at once As the coronavirus kills thousands and dominates government attention across Latin America, another deadly viral infection is quietly stalking the region. #LatinAmerica #Dengue #COVID #Ecuador Hong Kong parliament in chaos as politicians fight for chair “Deadlock in a legislature often is part of a healthy democracy as…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Where You’re Out of Work Makes All the Difference in the World “When life goes back to normal, I’m going to be at the lowest rung of the ladder,” Bowen said. “I’m not going to have anything, and I’m going to be so behind on all my bills. It’s just going to be an avalanche.”…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose general election to oust leader, leaked dossier finds One exchange shows a senior official described another from the left of the party as “pube head”. In another, months later, they called her a “smelly cow” and comment that she “had the exact same clothes on yesterday”. #LabourParty #Elections #UK #Corbyn Americans…
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The Real Working Class Heroes II
“A basic principle of the modern state capitalism is that cost and risk are socialized, while profit is privatized.” – Noam Chomsky Thank you, Essential Workers Coronavirus has impacted the globe. Many nations are on lockdown, and cities worldwide have issued shelter-at-home orders for their residents. The United States has been walloped by COVID-19. Many…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Coronavirus: US overtakes China with most cases Asked about the latest figures at a White House briefing on Thursday afternoon, President Trump said it was “a tribute to the amount of testing that we’re doing”. Vice-President Mike Pence said coronavirus tests were now available in all 50 states and more than 552,000 tests had been conducted nationwide.…
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There’s no going back
“Those mob fools want you gone so they can get back to the way things were. But I know the truth. There’s no going back. You’ve changed things…forever.” – The Joker, The Dark Knight Normalcy I’ve always felt this scene from the Dark Knight was one of those by god; he has a profound point…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff The United States also had an early warning of the new virus—but it, too, suppressed that information. In late January, just as instances of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, began to appear in the United States, an infectious-disease specialist in Seattle, Helen Y. Chu, realized that she had…
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