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“Civilization Critical – Energy, Food, Nature and the Future,” by Darrin Qualman, 2019 This is a systems’ analysis of how the natural w...

“Girls at War and Other Stories,” by Chinua Achebe, 1973 Achebe is in a group of older African novelists well known in the ‘West...

A Minnesota Yankee in King Trump’s Court Listen up, you dour Minnesotans.   If you ever got out of the state to head south – except to Dis...

“How ‘Bigger’ Was Born,” by Richard Wright, 1940 This is an obscure lecture on a work of proletarian literature written by Wright, a fo...

“China’s New Red Guards – The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong,” by Jude Blanchette, 2019 This is no real return to th...

“Echo in the Canyon,” documentary by Jakob Dylan, 2019 (Netflix) In his interview Stephen Stills babbles a bit. Ringo Starr poses before ...

Impeachapalooza or the Criminality of the Whole System Are you carefully following the long testimonies and talking heads on CNN, NPR ...