All posts by Alan B. Nagy
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It Starts Today: A Grassroots Activist Network!
It Starts Today: A Grassroots Activist Network Dedicated to Fair & Candid Discussions on the Most Pressing Issues of the Day! If you feel a...
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50 Champions for Truth & Justice!
Western World’s Most Influential Public Intellectuals & Global Thinkers As the year 2018 is drawing to a close, we here at “It Starts Today” have...
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40 Outstanding Online Media Outlets!
Something to be thankful for… As you prepare for some holiday down time, take a quick look (below) at my “summertime” list of 40 outstanding...
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Bearing the Blame for an Illeagle War!
After days of intense Syria Peace talks between Russia and the U.S. during the 2016 United Nations General Assembly, all hopes for a lasting cease-fire...
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The Perfect Metaphor for the Two-Party Oligarchy of the 1%
Titanic Lessons and Life-Saving Solutions for a Sinking World Many causes aggravated the situation resulting in the dooming of the “Unsinkable” Titanic. Contrary to popular...
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Race to the Bottom or Rise to the Top
Yes we’ve heard the argument that in a political fight for office, one must choose between the lesser of two evils, but that fatalistic view...
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Dissent is Patriotic: Responding to Politics of Division with Love and Compassion
Triggered by the crippling polarization of our global political system, protesters are taking to the streets to demand that the ‘powers that be’ stop erecting...
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We’re All Falling; Let’s Count the Ways
We live in a world that values maximizing personal gains at the expense of those less fortunate than us. We carry out austerity programs that...
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Braving the Stormy Seas of 2017 and Beyond…
A Society based on Rickety principles is headed for the bottom The instinct of survival, impacted by fear and insecurity of the future is driving...
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Navigating Through Spiritual Gridlock
I don’t believe in supernatural events or miracles that defy universal laws, nor do I believe in the kind of supernatural God that exists outside...
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Smile You’re on Candid Camera, Web, Phone, Social…
“Grandmother, what big ears you have!” “All the better to hear with, my child.” “Grandmother, what big eyes you have!” “All the better to see...
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Lobbying: Corruption in the USA Under Another Name.
“Lobbying is not only much more prevalent in developing countries than previously thought but also much more effective than corruption as a means of influencing...
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How the Rich are Eating the World: Richest 62 people as Wealthy as the Bottom Half!
Higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop the widening divide. A just-released uncontested Oxfam 2016 Davos report, which...
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That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.
This new video superimposes Mr. Sagan voice and narration from the original Pale Blue Dot video over time lapse footage of Voyager 1 as it...
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The Buonarroti Code: A real life mystery far more thrilling that fiction!
More than five centuries ago, one of the Renaissance’s greatest artists Michelangelo Buonarroti “el divino” was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Papacy commissioned...
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The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
I really like to read books that reinforce the fact that of all the new ways to examine the lost meaning behind the gospels, the...
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Why Do We Have Wars?
Aren’t you sick of all these wars and never ending conflicts between nations, ideologies and civilizations? Why are we all immune to the injustice and...
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The Bible and Literature: The Shape of the Bible
Renowned literary theorist, Northrop Frye, examines the pattern of U-shaped narratives in the bible that deal with loss, return, and deliverance. Between 1980 and 1982...
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The Indistinguishable Political Elite of the U.S.
Election! Run for Coverage. What’s the point of getting excited about the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections when opposing candidates are so hard to tell apart?...
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An Imaginary Letter from a Devastated Syrian-Kurdish Girl!
“Look around me, everything is destroyed, and my world is gone forever. My girlfriend and I have built a makeshift fireplace. She’s gathering wood so...
