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Patty Hearst and the SLA's militarist disaster

American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes & Trial of Patty Hearst
Jeffrey Toobin
Profile Books, 2017, 371 pages

鈥淒eath to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.鈥 With this hyperbolic declaration by 鈥淕eneral Field Marshall鈥 Cinque M鈥檛ume (the nom-de-plume of a Black prison escapee), the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) introduced itself to the American people in the early 1970s.

Our vanishing cultural resources

Within 100 years, many of our cities will become uninhabitable, submerged under oceans or deadly hot. Food will be more difficult to grow. Storms will become more violent. The gentle planet we鈥檝e known will be no more.

That鈥檚 hard to wrap one鈥檚 brain around. Some turn to faith, others despair.