Downstream: Into The Mirror World w/ Naomi Klein

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Downstream: Into The Mirror World w/ Naomi Klein

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When we were in lockdown, conspiracy theorists went on the march. The emergence of anti-vaccine scaremongering coupled with virulent antisemitism was disconcerting for all of us. But it was even more nuts for renowned journalist and author Naomi Klein, who noticed that she was being constantly getting mixed up with another author: Naomi Wolf. Klein […]

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