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...WELCOME. But the sights hardly beckon. Watchful Israeli soldiers stand guard as men in gallabiyas ply the road on two-wheeled donkey carts and women in white gauze veils trail their robes through the dust. Melons are sold amid reeking garbage. Rusting wreckage litters the roadsides. The stench of rot and waste is unescapable. Gaza looks like what it is: the last refuge of the dispossessed...
...present in many of the large public school of urban centers. The resepct (or lack thereof) which many Easterners have for their own public schools is quite apparent. At the first possible opportunity, it seems, they send their children to private or selective "public" schools, while most public schools rot under piles of outdated textbooks and hordes of drugged-up juvenile delinquents (who are, for the most part, products of their environment...
CARE FOR the mentally ill has been treated as an all or nothing solution. First, the mentally ill were left to rot in human warehouses. Then they were deinstitutionalized and largely left to cope alone, without psychiatric care...
...hideous massacre of Philadelphia's MOVE household, the surge of executions on Jim Crow death row, the gutting of busing for desegregation--these are emblems of a visciously racist ruling class gearing up for war. As American capitalism continues to rot, both Republicans and Democrats know they cannot conduct any war--against Nicaragua, Cuba and ultimately the Soviet Union--without the subjugation of the working classes and all the oppressed...
...humans get involved. In Brazil the Amazon rain forest, which once covered 3 million sq. mi., has been slashed by an estimated 10% to 15% as the region has been developed for mining and agriculture; an additional 20% has been seriously disturbed. When the downed trees are burned or rot, CO2 and other greenhouse gases are released. The same kind of deforestation in Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, say experts, may already be helping to make the world warmer...