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Octafish

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1. Outstanding article.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2013, 11:00 AM

Aug 2013

Hedges is spot-on:

What is happening in Egypt is a precursor to a wider global war between the world’s elites and the world’s poor, a war caused by diminishing resources, chronic unemployment and underemployment, declining crop yields caused by climate change, overpopulation and rising food prices.

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Chris Hedges: Murdering the Wretched of the Earth [View all] marmar Aug 2013 OP

Outstanding article. Octafish Aug 2013 #1

A completely unnecessary war at that Hydra Aug 2013 #5

k/r nt limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #2

K&R for Hedges telling it like it is 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #3

it's like with the 00s' "debate" on violence by Muslims: the experts who actually studied it MisterP Aug 2013 #4