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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

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    MIke Spies
    The Trace

    The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

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    Published On: 07/19/2025

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    Mass media are dead: corrupted, complicit, malign, worthless

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    Maya Yang
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    PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

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    Article 19
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