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How the Global Food Economy Is Killing Children

Vijay Prashad Tricontinental
Every year unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease-the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food

This Heat Wave Wouldn’t Have Happened in 1776

Andrea Thompson Scientific American
The heat wave sending temperatures into the triple digits this July Fourth is a prime example of climate change loading the dice. It would have been “virtually impossible” when the U.S. was founded

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Appalachia

Peter Neil Carroll
If you follow the speaker’s directions, you’ll be as lost as he is. Poet Peter Neil Carroll wonders what’s worth finding in this place that most Americans have forgotten.

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When I Have Fears That Earth May Cease To Be

Christine Holland
California poet Christine Holland transforms the famous phrase by John Keats from a statement of personal anxiety to a lament for the planet and all its creatures.

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Foxhole

Sean Mclain Brown
Poet Sean Mclain Brown offers us a disturbing scene from the Iraq War, what happens to the animals in the combat zone.

A Good Life for the 99% Isn’t a Pipe Dream

Thomas Piketty, Lucas Chancel, Cornelia Mohren, Rowaida Moshrif, Moritz Odersky and Anmol Somanchi The Guardian
Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains. Here's how it can be done.

Friday Nite Videos | April 24, 2026

Portside Portside
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections. The Origins of May Day: Working Class Pride and Power. The Navy Gets a Witch-Hunter. Bait | Trailer. The First American City That Will Run Out of Water.
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