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How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation

Kiera Butler and Neha Wadekar Mother Jones
Last year, the anti-extremism group Center for Countering Digital Hate found that 65 percent of vaccine disinformation on Facebook and Twitter came from just 12 people, including the activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the natural lifestyle influencer Dr. Joseph Mercola.

Five Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine

Christopher Howard Sapiens
Anthropologists have helped uncork the fascinating history of winemaking—from drunken primates to Stone Age seed domestication to intoxicating religious rites.

Black Capitalism in One City

Adolph Reed Jr. Dissent Magazine
Soul City was a boondoggle—not a story of lost or forgotten roads tragically not taken.

A Real Jubilee: A Mass Write-Off of Debts

Caroline Molloy Open Democracy
Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee of 70 years on the throne. Even before cost of living crisis, the poor owed the government – or, the Crown – £16bn. Why not just write it off?

Why Labor Won in Australia

Thomas Klikauer CounterPunch
Despite years of media support by Murdoch for the unloved and self-appointed bulldozer Scomo and Murdoch’s daily attacks on Labor, Labor still won. Worse, Australia is a country that is known not as a democracy but as Murdochracy.
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