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What does a healthy meal look like?

Lisa Zwirn The Boston Globe
Healthy meals should include including vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, and nuts; fish, lean poultry, minimal red meat; healthy fats such as olive oil instead of butter.

Warp-speed Capitalism

Yiannis Baboulias New Humanist
The sci-fi series The Expanse imagines what society will look like if we colonise space – a universe in which might is right and there are no good guys.

US Cities Burn Recyclables After China Bans Imports

Oliver Milman The Guardian
In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste.

Sweezy on the Rise of Fascism

Fabian Van Onzen Monthly Review
Sweezy adds a layer of historical analysis to the Comintern’s theory of fascism. He does this by defining it as the product of imperialism, which can only develop in the era of monopoly capitalism.

Ducktown: Yet Another Rural Tennessee Town With a Dead Hospital

Brett Kelman Nashville Tennessean
Mayor Jill Holland of McKenzie, Tenn., at a rally against hospital closures.
Tennessee has lost 10 rural hospitals, creating health care deserts for its poor residents. But, newly elected Republican governor Bill Lee resists Medicaid expansion, and he won in all but one of the counties that have experienced hospital closures.

Friday Nite Videos | February 22, 2019

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Tucker Carlson Totally Loses It in Unaired Interview, Michael Franti & Spearhead | The Flower (feat. Victoria Canal), Documentary | Knock Down The House, Brexit III, Angela Davis Returns to Birmingham