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OT: Ancient Art Collector Surrenders 180 Stolen Antiquities Valued at $70M...
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U.S. hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt has surrendered $70 million of stolen antiquities and accepted a first-of-its-kind lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities to resolve a criminal probe, Manhattan District…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
America’s longest-serving political prisoner Native American activist Leonard Pe
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CJKent_band

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America’s longest-serving political prisoner Native American activist Leonard Peltier should be released from federal prison.

“His trial was also happening as the FBI was trying to suppress the activities of the…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
The USA national holiday celebration of Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow
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CJKent_band

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The USA national holiday celebration of Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow of genocide and the resilience of Native people.

“...everyone comes together, and there is the turkey, you know Americans are serious…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
“American Super Bowl... (Christmas and Thanksgiving)...everyone comes together,
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CJKent_band

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“American Super Bowl... (Christmas and Thanksgiving)...everyone comes together, and there is the turkey...

You know American are serious about sports or genocide when they get a turkey...”

~ Katherine Louisa Ryan (born 30…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
“America was very classist and racist... It is difficult to imagine it that way
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CJKent_band

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“America was very classist and racist...
It is difficult to imagine it that way now...
But transport yourself back yo the seventeenth hundreds and it was very much the way it was... (and…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and
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“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
Our economic, class inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our midd
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Our economic, class inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class....

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started 3 yrs ago
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OT: A self-portrait of the Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo sold for $34.9 million...
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CJKent_band

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A self-portrait by the famed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sold in New York on Tuesday night for $34.9 million

The painting, which was completed in 1949, is one of Kahlo's famed self-portraits…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
“All American history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles betwee
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“All American history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.”