May 14, 2021

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Angie shows how the ceaseless drive to gain more—followers, view counts, retweets, subscribers, etc.—to achieve anti-capitalist ends only fuels capitalism. And she offers some helpful ideas on how to avoid falling into just the type of reification I’ve attempted to describe in this piece. Breaking Fad: Angie Speaks Articulates the Pitfalls of Call-Out Culture
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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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Breaking Fad: Angie Speaks Articulates the Pitfalls of Call-Out Culture

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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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What follows is a preamble to something relevant and current. I hope you’ll bear with me. * Back in a former life, when I was...
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Capital Extinction: Corporate Greed is Creating a Climate of Extreme Peril
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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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Capital Extinction: Corporate Greed is Creating a Climate of Extreme Peril

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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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I’m afraid to write about climate change. There, I said it. If it’s as bad as the recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report...
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Defending free-press Defending a Truly Free-Press: the Case for Independent Media, Part I
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Defending a Truly Free-Press: the Case for Independent Media, Part I

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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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Despite every ounce of digital censorship that’s going on today, whether it be the jimmied algorithms on Google, the purges on Facebook and Twitter, or...
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venezuela violence America’s Addiction to Regime Change Can Lead to a Coup in Venezuela
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America’s Addiction to Regime Change Can Lead to a Coup in Venezuela

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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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During the time he’s broadcast on YouTube, Jamarl Thomas of the Progressive Soapbox has consistently advanced a way of looking at the world that’s a...
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It’s Time We Cut Corporate Media Out of Our Lives

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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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Stephen Boni is both Ghion Journal's current editor and a contributing writer. His main interest is in analyzing the workings of empire and exploring ways to dismantle and replace systems of oppression. A conflicted New Englander with an affinity for people, music and avoiding isms, he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and young daughter.
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If there’s one issue that the ever playful and incisive independent journalist Caitlin Johnstone has pounded on these past couple years, it’s that the unspoken...
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self-Self Everything is Living: Nurturing Growth in the Cracks of Capitalism
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Everything is Living: Nurturing Growth in the Cracks of Capitalism

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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love PayGo
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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love PayGo

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Up until a few weeks ago, I doubt many members of the public had heard of a proposed House of Representatives rule called PayGo, which...
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Donald Trump Empires Don’t Quit: Thoughts on Trump’s Syria Withdrawal
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Empires Don’t Quit: Thoughts on Trump’s Syria Withdrawal

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Why the Press Sucks So Bad Pt. 3: The Trouble with TV News
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Why the Press Sucks So Bad Pt. 3: The Trouble with TV News

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The Mania for Winning is Killing U.S.
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The Mania for Winning is Killing U.S.

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