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Blowing up Nonviolent Pipelines

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By Michael Barker
| CounterPunch Verified
Andreas Malm’s now famous book How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Verso, 2021) had its origins in the activist-author’s frustration with mainstream distortions concerning the history of working class struggles. But in challenging those who impose misleading nonviolent narratives upon the processes of social change – a task that I too sought to undertake in my own book On Nonviolence (2025) — Malm goes too far and ends up offering up his own problematic political shortcuts.
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The Role of Meiotic Drive in Chromosome Number Disparity Between Heterosporous and Homosporous Plants

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By Sylvia P. Kinosian, Michael Barker
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Across vascular land plant lineages, there is great diversity and disparity of genome size and chromosome number (Table 1). Specifically, flowering plants have smaller average nuclear genomes and lower chromosome numbers than most pteridophytes (ferns and lycophytes; Figure 1), a pattern that is correlated with a difference in reproductive mode (Wagner and Wagner 1979; Klekowski and Baker 1966; Leitch and Leitch 2013; Nakazato et al. 2008).
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The Coronation Letters: **Letters from Master Manipulator to Apprentice Anarch** (AI-generated)

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By Michael Barker
| Medium
Michael Barker · Follow 6 min read · -- *An Epistolary Novella Inspired by “Coronation Unveiled”* I made a little novella using Microsoft Copilot AI. It satirically exposes some of the insidious communication strategies with which we must grapple today. My intention for this AI-generated novella is to honour C.S. Lewis by shamelessly imitating the formula of The Screwtape Letters, in a similar spirit to the original writing, to address a slightly different kind of foe.
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