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Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food

Michael Grunwald The New York Times
Environmentalists and even agribusinesses and food conglomerates talk about supplanting industrial methods with kinder and gentler “regenerative agriculture” that revives the pastoral wisdom of our ancestors.

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Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries

Dean Van Nguyen Jacobin
Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on something new. Creative workers can still produce fresh ideas, but they’re snuffed out before they get a chance to breathe

books

Jim Williams’s Quest for Justice

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.

poetry

Bring In the Clowns

Jean Chacona
Poet Jean Chacona offers a satirical view of the hucksterism at the heart of the new administration.

poetry

Election Results

Beau Beausoleil
Poet Beau Beausoleil contemplates the horrors which await the American public as a result of the recent election.

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"Big Food” Tries To Look Good

Alicia Kennedy The Bittman Project
If the top-heavy, ultra-consolidated food industry decides to offer us a few organic options, is that really a good thing? Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.
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