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Interview with Gabor Mate

#mentalillness #person:gabormate #politics | And so what I came to realize is that everything that the Soviets had said about Americans was true. Not Americans as the people but the American system as racists, as imperialists, and so on. And everything that the Americans said about the Soviets was also true, brutal, dictatorship, exploitative, dishonest, everything they said about each other was true. And everything they said about themselves was a lie.

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Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Greek Tragedy | The New Yorker

#classics #politics | But no work of ancient literature is as obsessed with unburied bodies as Sophocles’ “Antigone,” a tragedy first produced in Athens around 442 B.C.: the entire plot centers on the controversy over how a community that has survived a deadly attack will dispose of the body of the perpetrator of that attack—the body, as it happens, of a young man who had planned to bring destruction on the city that had been his home, who “sought to consume the city with fire…sought to taste blood.”

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CONSENT CAN’T BE BOUGHT — “Real men protect, which means real men must have...

#politics #activism | “Real men protect, which means real men must have the power to protect, which means real men must have the right to tell women what to do. All this talk is a cover for a simple, ugly fact: Women and children don’t need to be protected by men—they need to be protected from men. This talk of protection should be seen for what it is: A protection racket. One man or group of men promises to protect women and children from other men. And to do that, these good men must

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Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry - The New York Times

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I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There. | by Indi Samarajiva | indica | Sep, 2020 | Medium

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Hawai‘i: The Fake State – Dr. David Keanu Sai talks to the Maui County Council about the ongoing American occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom

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Hawaiian Kingdom Blog | Weblog of the acting government of the Hawaiian Kingdom presently operating within the occupied State of the Hawaiian Islands.

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