Monthly Archives: September 2017

Folks, We’re Home Alone

Thomas L. Friedman SEPT. 27, 2017 Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson wrote a famous memoir, “Present at the Creation,” about the birth of the post-World War II order — an order whose institutions produced six decades of security and … Continue reading

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The Abuses of History

Sept 25, 2017 Chris Hedges Mr. Fish Historians, like journalists, are in the business of manipulating facts. Some use facts to tell truths, however unpleasant. But many more omit, highlight and at times distort them in ways that sustain national … Continue reading

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The Great Flood

Chris Hedges Sept 12, 2017 Mr. Fish How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and … Continue reading

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The unholy alliance of Trump voters

The unholy alliance of Trump voters Posted: 8 September 2017 in Uncategorized Tags: economics, election, Hillary Clinton, identity, immigration, politics, race, trade, Trump, United States, voters 6 It wasn’t a homogeneous block—whether the white working-class or anti-immigrant nativists or the victims … Continue reading

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Diseases of Despair

 Chris Hedges Sept 3, 2017  Mr. Fish The opioid crisis, the frequent mass shootings, the rising rates of suicide, especially among middle-aged white males, the morbid obesity, the obsession with gambling, the investment of our emotional and intellectual life in … Continue reading

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