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Fragments of a comet likely hit Earth 12,800 years ago, and a little Paleolithic village in Syria might have suffered the impact.

...the super-capitalism of today has become an absolute fetter on the development of the productive forces necessary for our species survival.

The way out is nothing short of birthing a world (or perhaps more along the lines of returning back to Earth). It will also help solve—sleeves rolled up—many of our most pressing problems.

There are no quick fixes to the state’s water woes – and so many impoverished residents remain exposed to unsafe water.

In recent months, the Horn of Africa has been invaded by desert locusts that have consumed food crops and pasture. For Kenya, it is the worst infestation in 70 years.

Sara Roy of Harvard University's Centre for Middle Eastern studies...has written that “innocent human beings, most of them young, are slowly being poisoned in Gaza by the water drink and likely by the soil in which they plant.”

The socialist island outperforms advanced capitalist countries including Britain and the United States, which has subjected Cuba to a punitive six-decades-long economic blockade.

Israel’s spraying “has created a dead zone of entire swathes of formerly arable land.”

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Trump's policies at work - Wisconsin dairy farmers are put out to pasture by Trump Administration trade, tariff and tax policies. This is the reality of "making America great again" for the Midwest.