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16 Powerful Krishnamurti Quotes
16 Powerful Krishnamurti Quotes
Here is a collection of 16 powerful quotes by the great Jiddu Krishnamurti. Mostly taken from Krishnamurti’s public talks in the late 1960’s, these quotes will urge you to reconsider culture, religion, politics and family, and will guide you towards a new, more beautiful and...
Sofo Archon
Okay Men, Let's Talk About Toxic Femininity
Okay Men, Let's Talk About Toxic Femininity
What's fair is fair---it's time for an honest conversation about this, too.
Keri Mangis
Why Positive Thinking Isn't Neoliberal
Why Positive Thinking Isn't Neoliberal
By discouraging the use of powerful self-healing and self-development tools we may weaken those who are already disempowered.
Sonja Avlijaš
Shootings Are the Symptoms of an American Disease
Shootings Are the Symptoms of an American Disease
A gun problem, a shooter problem, a racism problem, a mental health problem, a human problem. A violence problem. Violence. It’s not just a bullet or a knife. It’s an infection That permeates through people, relationships and society. Imagine: You’re bullied by a boss, it...
Simon Mont
Jewish Voice for Peace Horrified by Israeli Response to the #GreatReturnMarch
Jewish Voice for Peace Horrified by Israeli Response to the #GreatReturnMarch
Jewish Voice for Peace is horrified by the Israeli response to the #GreatReturnMarch, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Gaza are marching peacefully inside of Gaza. At the time of this writing, at least eight Palestinians have been killed and over 500 injure
Jewish Voice for Peace
To Deal with Trump We Must First Face the Trump Inside Ourselves
To Deal with Trump We Must First Face the Trump Inside Ourselves
“The power of Fannie Lou Hamer compels you!”
Max S. Gordon
Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?
Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?
What is it that makes so many boys grow up to believe that sex is theirs for the taking?
Ruth C. White Ph.D.
Reflections From a Walk With a White Identitarian
Reflections From a Walk With a White Identitarian
In response to past essays I’ve written on identity politics, I’ve been asked to provide a deeper analysis of how identity politics function outside the liberal politics I have so far focused on. For the most part–likely owing to the divisiveness so present in this country–my...
Pat Mosley
The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics
The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics
How can liberals and progressives learn to feel differently about identity?
Gregory Leffel
Pilgrimage Open to All: Bring Your Own Beliefs
Pilgrimage Open to All: Bring Your Own Beliefs
The Sustainable Food Trust’s Future of UK Farming conference at Fir Farm this April will feature a pilgrimage from the source of the River Dickler to Hill Barn, hosted by Guy Hayward and Will Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust (BPT). Ahead of the conference I decided to
Bonnie Welch
Is Catastrophe the Only Cure for the Weakness of Radical Politics?
Is Catastrophe the Only Cure for the Weakness of Radical Politics?
If we want a future worthy of the name we need a different form of revolution.
Gregory Leffel
We Are Not Black
We Are Not Black
What you are going to read in the next couple of minutes is a disavowal of a word that has been used to literally tar and belittle people from a continent we now refer to as Africa. This word I’m alluding to is “black”, a word that was never, ever ours and a label foisted...
Teodrose Fikre
Will Cuba Become a Test Case for a Post-Postmodern Future?
Will Cuba Become a Test Case for a Post-Postmodern Future?
Metamodern mindfulness offers a new way of thinking about the ideological conflicts of the past.
Gregory Leffel
Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?
Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?
Daniel Quinn is an observer of the failure of modern civilization and an advocate of a return to tribal values. He explores this in his book Beyond Civilization: Humanity Next Great Adventure.
Alice Linsley
Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System
Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System
Have you ever been told when you’re stressed to stop worrying and just relax? That it’s all in your head? It would be nice if it were that simple. But it’s not.
Melody Walford
Why Allies Are Welcome to Criticise Social Movements
Why Allies Are Welcome to Criticise Social Movements
Being a member of an oppressed group is not a guarantee of wisdom or correctness.
Sofa Gradin
Martin Luther King Jr Supported a Guaranteed Basic Income
Martin Luther King Jr Supported a Guaranteed Basic Income
(The following is an excerpt from King’s book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” — Part 5 of chapter 5 titled “Where Do We Go”) There is only one general proposal that I would like to examine here, because it deals with the abolition of poverty within this nation...
Matt Orfalea
It's Time the United States Accounts for Its History of Torture
It's Time the United States Accounts for Its History of Torture
President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. After 9/11, Haspel ran an illegal black site in Thailand where a man was tortured, and she later wrote a memo calling for the destruction of proof of such “enhanced...
Ariel Dorfman
Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him
Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him
What’s next? That is the big question facing this country after the election of Trump. And many people have been sharing their thoughts on that over social and traditional media, over dinner conversations, at the office and on the bus with complete strangers. And, as...
Kazu Haga
Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics
Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics
The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.
Connor Kilpatrick
A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household
A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income
Paul Buchheit
Why Some Queer People Are Rejecting Identity Politics
Why Some Queer People Are Rejecting Identity Politics
This topic has been around for a while, but lately it seems like there are actual attempts at dialogue happening, and so I want to contribute to that.
Pat Mosley
Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead
Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead
When my mom was dying of cancer, I occasionally got messages from well-meaning people who wanted to offer what they thought was valuable information about how mom could cure her cancer. Eat raw food, take more vitamin C, stop drinking milk – all of those suggestions and more...
Heather Plett
Cultural Appropriation, White Purity and ‘Woke’ Nationalism
Cultural Appropriation, White Purity and ‘Woke’ Nationalism
While a White Nationalist claims that doing non-white things is tainting the race, the social justice activist claims that doing non-white things is theft. The end result is the same: a pure, untainted, culturally-distinct white race. White Nationalism and Woke Nationalism...
Rhyd Wildermuth
#Deletefacebook? Not in Indian Country
#Deletefacebook? Not in Indian Country
The social network has done more for bolstering the modern Indigenous rights agenda than perhaps any other platform of our time.
Jenni Monet
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor
Collective action to right wrongs or help the suffering under neoliberal ideology is wrong, unfeasible, or some combination of the two.
Noah Berlatsky
The Resolution of Jordan Peterson: Truth, Lies, and Reconciliation in a Time of Chaos
The Resolution of Jordan Peterson: Truth, Lies, and Reconciliation in a Time of Chaos
This article is Part 3 in The Abs-Tract Organization’s series on Jordan B. Peterson, following from The Detraction of Jordan Peterson: Constructive Criticism to a Public Intellectual (A Critique), which was a follow-up to
Brent Cooper
The Limits of Liberal Identity Politics
The Limits of Liberal Identity Politics
Asad Haider ends the first part of his essay on the problems of liberal identity politics with a powerful accusation: “Fredrik deBoer asks, ‘Does it matter to Resnikoff that the most acid critiques of identity politics I know of have come from writers of color?’ It is a...
Dan Husman
Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
“Bernard? Oh yeah, he’s great. He was always the principles guy.”
Kazu Haga
The Left Is the New Right, the Right Is the Old Right
The Left Is the New Right, the Right Is the Old Right
I didn’t pay much attention to Jordan Peterson when I first heard about him. The standard line on Peterson among liberals and leftists was that he is yet another right-wing hero of young, white men, but less extreme than those on the full-fledged alt-right. While this may be...
Vincent Kelley
The Abstract Empire of Global Capital
The Abstract Empire of Global Capital
Nonrepresentative Democracy at the Dark Heart of Globalization
Brent Cooper
Why Do People Find Jordan Peterson so Convincing? Because the Left Doesn't Have Its Own House in Order
Why Do People Find Jordan Peterson so Convincing? Because the Left Doesn't Have Its Own House in Order
The Canadian clinical psychologist and university professor has become hugely popular for his 'anti-PC' views and is beloved of many on the alt-right. He's appealing for a number of reasons, most of them connected to the left-wing people he opposes
Slavoj Zizek
Vicious Abstraction and Systemic Racism: The Violence of False Representation and Coded Language
Vicious Abstraction and Systemic Racism: The Violence of False Representation and Coded Language
Abstraction comes in countless forms, but beware the vicious variety, which corrupts our thinking. A ‘vicious abstraction’ is a misrepresentation of an abstraction. You’d be amazed how far little white lies can go. Suffice it to say empires can be built on them. But suppose...
Brent Cooper
Jordan Peterson Gets Played
Jordan Peterson Gets Played
About half a decade ago, Jordan Peterson was a psychology professor at the University of Toronto and clinical psychologist with little international fame and even less infamy. A talented teacher and skilled speaker, he conveyed expertise within his domain and gave prestigious...
Openwide Contributor
Is Postmodernism Destroying Western Civilization? On Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life
Is Postmodernism Destroying Western Civilization? On Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life
A specter is haunting North America — the specter of postmodernism. Or at least, that’s what Jordan Peterson would have you believe. Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has entered into an unholy alliance with all the powers of the alt-right to...
Shuja Haider
How to Build a Progressive Movement in a Polarized Country
How to Build a Progressive Movement in a Polarized Country
Whether it’s assault rifles, racial justice, immigration or fossil fuels, the country is rocked by conflicting narratives and rising passions. In a recent national poll, 70 percent of Americans say the political divide is at least as big as during the Vietnam War.
George Lakey
Exiting the Vampire Castle
Exiting the Vampire Castle
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take...
Mark Fisher
Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence
Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence
During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between these forms and to what I will call (with a nod to William James) "the...
James Gilligan
Let the (R)Evolution Come from Wisdom: 3 Insights to Help Create a World Free From Violence
Let the (R)Evolution Come from Wisdom: 3 Insights to Help Create a World Free From Violence
What is this world we’ve created for our youth? 7,000 dead to gun violence since 2012?! What is that? The weight that we are leaving for our youth is unbearable to bear witness to, but if we don’t… what kind of world will we have created?
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Crossroads and Country Roads: Wildcat West Virginia and the Possibilities of a Working Class Offensive
Crossroads and Country Roads: Wildcat West Virginia and the Possibilities of a Working Class Offensive
During the four days I spent in West Virginia, I was repeatedly thanked for coming to support teachers from out of state, though mostly people seemed a bit surprised that I cared. Perhaps it was because I arrived at the exact moment that most of the national media was...
Kate Doyle Griffiths
We've Got Ninety-Nine Problems but the Root Is ONE
We've Got Ninety-Nine Problems but the Root Is ONE
Political and ideological differences prevent us from seeing that our hopes and frustrations are interconnected.
Teodrose Fikre
Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism
Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism
Researchers found unlikely heroes in keeping the world from authoritarianism  - magic mushrooms. Scientists from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London showed that psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, makes people less likely to embrace...
Paul Ratner
How to Change the Course of Human History
How to Change the Course of Human History
(at least, the part that's already happened)
David Graeber and David Wengrow
I Love Being a Woman - How to Live Our Erotic Truth
I Love Being a Woman - How to Live Our Erotic Truth
Around the world, women are searching for a feminine power they can affirm with self-confidence. This search is particularly delicate in sexuality, given the long history of violence and abuse continuing to this day. Yet, here’s exactly where the true revolution needs to take...
Sabine Lichtenfels
How Can We Stop America's Deadly Epidemic of Loneliness?
How Can We Stop America's Deadly Epidemic of Loneliness?
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. —Albert Schweitzer Loneliness is a political issue—at least, it should be. Loneliness and isolation are killing us. Lest you think this is metaphoric, the statistics are chilling. In a study funded by the...
Michael Bader
Radical Kindness Is Liberating
Radical Kindness Is Liberating
A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett. 
Tim Hjersted
The Neurobiology of Love and Relationships
The Neurobiology of Love and Relationships
How does the Brain Respond to Love? Love has an intoxicating effect on us and understanding this mysterious effect from a scientific perspective may help us navigate relationships with a little more clarity. Meditation, self-awareness and good communication skills are...
Jacob Devaney
It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
What causes depression and anxiety? I have been a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years and have seen hundreds of patients suffering from both. In my experience, some factors are obvious. People who suffer from depression and anxiety have experienced...
Michael Bader
Situational Assessment: What We Must Learn from 2016 to Win The Battle of Ideas
Situational Assessment: What We Must Learn from 2016 to Win The Battle of Ideas
In 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but it is high time for an update. While many things have changed in the world in
Jordan Hall
What Are the Six Basic Human Needs?
What Are the Six Basic Human Needs?
Are your emotional and psychological needs being fulfilled?
Chip Richards
Race Traitors Wanted: Apply Within
Race Traitors Wanted: Apply Within
A Review of David Gilbert's 'Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically'
Colin Jenkins
A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want
A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want
"Influence is NOT about convincing people to want different things than they already want. It's about showing them that the way to get what they already want, is by following you." - Charlie Houpert Lately, I've been interested in exploring how we can apply this strategy to
Tim Hjersted
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
This is the introduction to Eric Bower's book, Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places. To build successful relationships, it is essential to address the pain and emotional wounds that you carry from past relationships, particularly from your childhood relationships with
Eric Bowers
Films for Action Is Making a Big Change, and We Want You to Be Part of It!
Films For Action Is Making a Big Change, and We Want You to Be Part of It!
For all our supporters who haven't heard yet, last month we decided to make a major change to how Films For Action operates.
Films For Action
The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
Policy initiatives promoting healthy emotional development in children
Anne Manne, Robin Grille, Kali Wendorf
Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?
Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?
In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.
John W. Whitehead
Elite Anxiety: The True Foreign Skullduggery Behind Election 2016
Elite Anxiety: The True Foreign Skullduggery Behind Election 2016
There was indeed a foreigner responsible for the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016. This is not an “allegation” or a supposition or any kind of “conspiracy theory;” it is a confirmed fact, backed up by reams and reams of documented evidence. The culpable foreigner was not...
Chris Floyd
The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire
The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire
What is the true purpose of government? Critics would rightly say it's to control and dominate because that's the nature of every government we've known. Every government since the days of feudalism has been corrupted in some form, "captured" in other words, by monied, elite...
Tim Hjersted
Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender
Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender
It’s time to bridge the polarities and embrace the paradoxes around gender.
Maniphesto
Ultimate Guide to Getting Out of Depression
Ultimate Guide to Getting Out of Depression
Depression is the modern plague, there is no question to that. I have been experienced it along with anxiety for 4,5 years. Worst fucking 50 months of my life. Best fucking 50 months of my life. If you are also struggling with it, don’t worry and relax, just read. This is...
Kemal Tenebris