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Can the Ideal Society Ever Exist?

Steven Poole The Guardian
This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin.

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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.

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自摸 Independent Woman

Jen Cheng
Poet Jen Cheng demonstrates how even marginalized individuals can draw strength from their cultural heritage.

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Tech Alone Won’t Future-Proof the Food System, Experts Warn

Rich Bellis Agfundernews.com
Calls for ambitious policy responses to climate and geopolitical risks in the current food system are growing louder. Experts agree it can’t just be technology that bolsters food security; governments need a new vision to support it.

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The World Cup Is Exposing FIFA’s Ugly Partnership With Power

Andy Storey Jacobin
Football’s governing body, FIFA, won’t even stand up for players, referees, and fans who are being harassed by the US authorities. It’s no surprise FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has also offered his services to help whitewash Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Iran Under Siege

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
A portrait of life in the Iranian capital through the months leading up to the war, and in the first weeks under the Israeli and U.S. "Operation Epic Fury".

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Overseers Everywhere—Still We Rise

Renée Feltz The Indypendent
In his new book, Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of the “phenomenon in which people from marginalized populations amass power not by uplifting people from the communities they come from, but by collectively cracking the of their own.”
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