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    <title>How Gen X Became the Trumpiest Generation</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/right-to-food-hunger-cost-of-living-crisis/">
    <title>It’s Time to Enshrine the Right to Food</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://golmac.org/are-video-games-an-ethical-pastime-activision-etc/">
    <title>Are Video Games an Ethical Pastime? Activision, etc.</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-06T21:32:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://golmac.org/are-video-games-an-ethical-pastime-activision-etc/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><dc:subject>ethics politics representation capitalism activision video-games</dc:subject>
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    <title>Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right // New Socialist</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-25T15:17:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Return of the Guillotine</title>
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    <link>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/listen-return-of-the-guillotine-1.6234238</link>
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    <title>The Case for Climate Reparations</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-13T13:46:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/climate-change-reparations.html</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><dc:subject>climatechange carbon reparations economics politics environment</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/carl-zimmer-virus/">
    <title>The Politics of Viruses</title>
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    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/carl-zimmer-virus/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><dc:subject>virus health politics science communication</dc:subject>
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    <title>No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36439329/rise-of-elevated-stupidity-cable-news-politics/">
    <title>The Rise of Elevated Stupidity</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://bostonreview.net/politics/claire-vergerio-beyond-nation-state">
    <title>Beyond the Nation-State</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/05/whats-the-healthiest-news-diet-probably-traditional-media-but-dont-gorge-yourself-too-much-can-leave-you-less-informed/">
    <title>What’s the healthiest news diet? Probably traditional media, but don’t gorge yourself: Too much can leave you less informed</title>
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    <link>https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/anti-anti-anti-science/</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/its-time-to-build-a-grassroots-movement-to-take-football-back/">
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We can't rely on the traditional institutions to save us from the European Super League. FIFA, UEFA and the Premier League have all failed football – it's time for the fans to take ownership over the game again.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/april/funny-voice-videos">
    <title>Funny Voice Videos</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/come-to-milton-keynes-2/">
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The sugary pop of 1985's 'Our Favourite Shop' by Paul Weller's The Style Council carried a brutal critique of the fantasies and realities of Thatcherism in the South of England during the tumultuous 1980s.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cjr.org/special_report/seth-abramson-twitter.php/">
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    <link>https://www.cjr.org/special_report/seth-abramson-twitter.php/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A profile of Seth Abramson]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-27-how-indias-shifting-political-climate-is-influencing-local-game-development">
    <title>How India's shifting political climate is influencing local game development</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://longreads.com/2020/06/18/the-long-con-of-britishness/">
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<item rdf:about="http://theconversation.com/the-dark-side-of-plant-based-food-its-more-about-money-than-you-may-think-127272">
    <title>The dark side of plant-based food – it's more about money than you may think</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://marginalgloss.tumblr.com/post/189418224737/monochromology">
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<item rdf:about="http://theconversation.com/five-reasons-to-vote-in-this-election-127666">
    <title>Five reasons to vote in this election</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-03T13:20:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy voting politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/nations-nationalism-and-non-nation-political-movements/">
    <title>Nations, Nationalism, and Non-Nation Political Movements</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://humantransit.org/2018/09/why-your-bus-network-may-never-improve.html">
    <title>Why Your Bus Network May Never Improve — Human Transit</title>
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    <link>https://humantransit.org/2018/09/why-your-bus-network-may-never-improve.html</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Changing bus networks is fiendishly hard to do politically, and this is why. When I prepare government clients for a network redesign, part of my job is shock-therapy: they need to know who will be yelling at them, and what they’ll be saying, and how unpleasant that will be. Because if they are not ready to sit through some of that, there is no point in beginning.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://piie.com/microsites/globalization/what-is-globalization.html">
    <title>What Is Globalization?</title>
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    <link>https://piie.com/microsites/globalization/what-is-globalization.html</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How much has the modern global economy helped or hurt American businesses, workers, and consumers? Here is a guide to this complex and much debated topic.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/s/love-hate/on-hating-love-actually-67c09a3e6384">
    <title>On Hating ‘Love Actually’ – LOVE/HATE – Medium</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that I hate Love Actually, but the truth is that no word I possess — hate, contempt, loathing, disgust — can properly capture my rejection of this film. It’s like the onset of…]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-happens-when-a-bad-tempered-distractible-doofus-runs-an-empire">
    <title>What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Miranda Carter draws comparisons between President Donald Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose touchiness, unpredictability, and narcissism helped precipitate the fall of the German Empire.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2018/10/did-end-great-war-come-too-soon">
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This month, 100 years ago, the war ended. But had it lasted into 1919 the future of the world might have been very different.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-the-idea-that-changed-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other">
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[<blockquote>
In short, “neoliberalism” is not simply a name for pro-market policies, or for the compromises with finance capitalism made by failing social democratic parties. It is a name for a premise that, quietly, has come to regulate all we practise and believe: that competition is the only legitimate organising principle for human activity.
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A neighbor was sweeping his sidewalk, pushing tiny white rocks back into his rock garden. The sky was an uninterrupted blue. A mailman worked his way up the empty street. There were no signs of “Sharia Law.” The migrant caravan was still hundreds of miles away in Mexico. Antifa protesters had yet to descend on…]]></description>
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