> ... mayhem committed by toddlers (or perhaps they should be thought of as American lone wolf cubs). Toddler shootings range from the two year old who killed his mother in a Walmart in Idaho with the gun she was packing in her purse as 2014 ended to the three year old who discovered a gun in a purse in an Albuquerque motel room in February and wounded his father and pregnant mother with a single shot...
https://tomdispatch.com/engelhardt-armed-violence-in-the-homeland/
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> a 2013 piece by the remarkable, now 94-year-old Noam Chomsky looking at a future that — from the latest devastating news about #ClimateChange to the revival of #NuclearFears thanks to the war in #Ukraine — is all too of the moment. Of course, Chomsky’s vision of our world was always remarkably ahead of his time

https://tomdispatch.com/humanity-imperiled/

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Humanity Imperiled

What is the future likely to bring?  A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside.  So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure

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