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Sweden's Feminist Foreign Minister Has Dared to Tell the Truth About Saudi Arabia. What Happens Now Concerns Us All
Sweden's Feminist Foreign Minister Has Dared to Tell the Truth About Saudi Arabia. What Happens Now Concerns Us All
Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely
Nick Cohen · 226,999 views · 4.7 stars
Millions of Americans Now Claim Donald Trump Does Not Exist
Millions of Americans Now Claim Donald Trump Does Not Exist
On May 13 the American news media reported that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had recruited U.S. Republican Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota—a major oil drilling state—to help him draft his energy policy. Cramer has said he does not believe...
Richard Heinberg · 36,280 views · 4.5 stars
"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism
"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism
“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” ~ Brené Brown
Justice Bartlett · 10,964 views · 4.5 stars
American Public Turns Anti-War ... Warmongers Desperately Reply, "But War Is GOOD for Us!"
American Public Turns Anti-War ... Warmongers Desperately Reply, "But War Is GOOD for Us!"
Artwork by William Banzai   War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignora
Washington's Blog · 2,991 views · 3.5 stars
Real Libertarians Don't Shill For The Kochs
Real Libertarians Don't Shill For The Kochs
It’s been the thing lately, among certain establishment liberals, to dismiss libertarians as “Koch-funded shills.” We’ve heard a lot of it from Mark Ames and Yasha Levine at NSFWCorp, for example.
Kevin Carson · 1,522 views · unrated
Five Ways the U.S. Can Have an Icelandic Revolution
Five Ways the U.S. Can Have an Icelandic Revolution
“We have to nationalize the banks. We have to get rid of the government. We need to have access to the internet seen as a human right. We need to have a new Constitution," said Birgitta Jonsdottir, founder of the Icelandic Pirate Party. Jonsdottir, a lifelong political...
Carl Gibson · 5,363 views · 5 stars
The Triumph of Triviality
The Triumph of Triviality
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker · 1,824 views · 4.9 stars
Live Your Best Life - Without Even Trying (Inspirational Movie)
Live Your Best Life - Without Even Trying (Inspirational Movie)
We so often live in the feeling of lack, that there is not enough to be who we are. But life can be so much more. We can choose to live in abundance, in harmony with who we are. Are you ready for a change?
8 min · 94 views · unrated
"Deepening Your Personal Relationships" by Dr. Max Hammer W/ Barry J. Hammer + Alan C. Butler
"Deepening Your Personal Relationships" by Dr. Max Hammer W/ Barry J. Hammer + Alan C. Butler (trailer)
Book Title: "Deepening Your Personal Relationships"  Subtitle: "Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication"  Primary Author: Dr. Max Hammer, with secondary contributing authors Dr. Barry J. Hammer and Dr. Alan C. Butler. Available in soft cover print and electronic...
1 min · 62 views · unrated
"Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation" by Max Hammer
"Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation" by Max Hammer (trailer)
Primary Author name: Dr. Max Hammer Authors on title page: Dr. Max Hammer, With secondary contributing authors Dr. Barry J. Hammer and Dr. Alan C. Butler Book Title: "Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation" This book is available in...
1 min · 114 views · unrated
Rage, Fear, Sadness, Fatigue: The Yoga of Darkness
Rage, Fear, Sadness, Fatigue: The Yoga of Darkness
“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” -Carl Jung
Return Yoga · 12,711 views · 4.2 stars
Fear Trumps Facts: Why Theresa May Is Sticking With Her Migration Cap
Fear Trumps Facts: Why Theresa May Is Sticking With Her Migration Cap
Ahead of the British general election on June 8, the ruling Conservative party has renewed its commitment to “reduce and control” immigration to a net figure of under 100,000 – a level not seen for 20 years. This pledge caused some puzzlement. Even the Brexit secretary, David...
Robin Cohen · 3,445 views · unrated
How the Washington Post and American Journalism Lost Their Way
How the Washington Post and American Journalism Lost Their Way
The Post’s redoubled emphasis on the bottom line exemplified a crucial change in American newspapering and reflected the transformation of the daily newspaper in the United States from a family enterprise to a corporation with an obligation to its stockholders to ‘maximize’...
Jon Jeter · 85 views · 5 stars
The Ego - the Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment
The Ego - the Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment
In your present, individual state of consciousness we identify with the thoughts and emotions that appear in our mind, so we believe that we are a separate, illusionary person, an Ego. The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of...
Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D · 903 views · 5 stars
"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media
"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media (2018)
David Fuller: “A Glitch in the Matrix" is about the relationship between truth and reality, the ideological blind spots of the mainstream media and the existential threat of polarisation — all seen through the lens of Jordan Peterson’s recent viral interview with Cathy Newman...
55 min · 11,251 views · 0.5 stars
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 · 2,622 views · unrated
This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society I: 1918 - 1939 (Part 3)
This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society I: 1918 - 1939 (Part 3)
If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the series for you.
41 min · 134 views · unrated
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
You are not crazy, my friends
Julio Vincent Gambuto · 23,997 views · 5 stars
The Boiling Pot of 2016
The Boiling Pot of 2016
On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper...
Richard Heinberg · 4,196 views · 4.5 stars
Facing up to Our Shadow Side With Compassion
Facing up to Our Shadow Side With Compassion
Restorative justice makes real the fact that conflict, pain, suffering and crime are part of all our lives.
Molly Rowan Leach · 445 views · unrated
Business of War
Business of War
The Syrian War, today.  On a Tuesday 15th March 2011, the protests for democratic reforms started in the streets of Deraa.  Five years later, Syria has become a state of chaos.  How has a peaceful protest against Syria’s President become a deadly civil war, leaving more than...
Aksay Lackoo · 286 views · unrated
Shocking New Report: Bombing People Causes People to Hate You
Shocking New Report: Bombing People Causes People to Hate You
You better sit down for this one because it will blow your mind. You are probably aware that we on a global quest to rid the world of Evil, one smart-bomb at a time. Yet, for some strange reason, every place that we bomb Evil into oblivion seems to become more messed up than...
gjohnsit · 43,620 views · 5 stars
Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism
Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism
There’s a wonderful phrase for how capitalism works in the real world (I’m not sure who first came up with it, but I associate it with Noam Chomsky): “The socialization of risk and cost, and the privatization of profit.”
Kevin Carson · 8,151 views · 3.5 stars
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
At a vigil to honor the victims of Sandy Hook, I read aloud the piece that Rabbi Lerner wrote on December 14th, 2012, entitled: “Banning All Guns is Necessary but Not Sufficient”, that we also need a fundamental transformation of consciousness both inner and societal. An...
Cheryl Hashman Sheinman · 607 views · 4 stars
The Ecosexual Awakening
The Ecosexual Awakening
From the anthology Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love I hesitate to start an essay with definitions as if I could compel you with force of logic to accept conclusions that follow irrefutably from premises. Nor would that be very sexy: an imposition rather...
Charles Eisenstein · 2,003 views · 4 stars
Comics: An Anarchic Approach
Comics: An Anarchic Approach
Sean Michael Wilson · 1,966 views · unrated
Green Cities and the End of the Age of Oil
Green Cities and the End of the Age of Oil
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped — literally — for the benefit of the automobile and oil industries. Today, with global oil reserves headed toward irreversible decline, we need to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality. Seizing foreign oil...
Richard Register · 8,667 views · 5 stars
The Question of “Failures”- Deliberate or Incompetence? 2
The Question of “Failures”- Deliberate or Incompetence? 2
Although the story of the CIA’s actions in the run-up to 9/11 is complicated, at a fairly early point in any examination of them it becomes clear the agency committed multiple failures, and that these failures enabled the attacks to go forward. The key issue that remains in...
Kevin Fenton · 2,597 views · 1 stars
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says “State” instead of “Country” (the Framers knew the difference – see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia’s vote.  Founders...
Thom Hartmann · 39,230 views · 4.8 stars
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
With regular life on pause, we have a chance to stop and question the path we are taking at the deepest level.
Jason Angell · 7,837 views · unrated
Revealed: the day Obama chose a strategy of silence on climate change
Revealed: the day Obama chose a strategy of silence on climate change
Sandy has blown climate change back on the agenda – and many believe the White House was wrong when it decided in 2009 that climate change was not a winning political message [as opposed to the opportunity of the clean energy economy].
Alberto · 4,084 views · 5 stars
The Oldest Living Things in the World: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy
The Oldest Living Things in the World: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy
What a 13,000-year-old eucalyptus tree reveals about the meaning of human life.
Maria Popova · 5,272 views · 5 stars
To Save Family Farms from Corporate Buyout, Retiring Farmers Connect with a New Generation
To Save Family Farms from Corporate Buyout, Retiring Farmers Connect with a New Generation
In the next 20 years, many American family farmers are likely to retire—putting enormous amounts of land on the market. Here's how they're connecting with young farmers to make sure the family farm survives. arol Ptak and her husband own Blacksmith Ranch, a small grass-fed...
Liz Pleasant · 901 views · unrated
War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
John Pilger · 8,764 views · 4.8 stars
Resilience Is Futile: How Well-Meaning Nonprofits Perpetuate Poverty
Resilience Is Futile: How Well-Meaning Nonprofits Perpetuate Poverty
Two years ago, I was hired as a campaign coordinator for a community initiative in South L.A. I got the job because I’d been an organizer for labor unions, and I was eager and thrilled. I’d be coordinating The Belong Campaign, part
Melissa Chadburn · 19,829 views · 4.9 stars
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
PHILADELPHIA — The perfect crime is far easier to pull off when nobody is watching.
MARK MAZZETTI · 478 views · unrated
Mexican Cuisine
Mexican Cuisine
A short documentary about the taste of immigration in California.
4 min · 3,404 views · unrated
It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security
It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security
The surveillance state is even bigger, and scarier, than we thought.
Thom Hartmann · 2,344 views · 4 stars
Who's Afraid of Howard Zinn's Radical History?
Who's Afraid of Howard Zinn's Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States A recent Associated Press expose—drawing on e-mails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act—revealed that in 2010, Mitch Daniels, then Indiana’s Republican governor, covertly set out...
Sonia Murrow & Robert Cohen · 3,549 views · 4.5 stars
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000...
Emily Esfahani Smith · 6,567 views · 4 stars
9/11 and the Question of “Failures” - Deliberate or Incompetence?
9/11 and the Question of “Failures” - Deliberate or Incompetence?
Although the story of the CIA’s actions in the run-up to 9/11 is complicated, at a fairly early point in any examination of them it becomes clear the agency committed multiple failures, and that these failures enabled the attacks to go forward. The key issue that remains in...
Kevin Fenton · 3,502 views · 4 stars
The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza
The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza
Like many other people in Israel and across the world, my first reaction to the attack on October 7 was of shock and horror. But that initial reaction was accompanied by rage, not only at the appalling massacre perpetrated by Hamas on women and children, the elderly and the...
Omer Bartov · 366 views · 4.8 stars
What If Most People Love Violence?
What If Most People Love Violence?
Despite years of effort and sacrifice by millions, there has not been a mass shift toward nonviolence. Perhaps what's needed is a better understanding of the dark side of the human species.
Brian Martin · 1,252 views · 3 stars
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn · 170,875 views · 4 stars
5 Ways to Change the World From the Comfort of Your Own Self
5 Ways to Change the World From the Comfort of Your Own Self
Immersed in middle class American life, I am the mother of a teenage son and daughter, and I live in a medium sized town outside of Philadelphia. If that conjures images of navigating complex social media relationships, painful negotiating sessions around cash, google...
Julia Menzo · 11,277 views · 5 stars
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper. Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...
Vegard Gjerde · 25,334 views · unrated
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
"All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given." - Joanna Macy
Dahr Jamail · 12,050 views · unrated
Five Vital Lessons From Psychedelic Experts
Five Vital Lessons From Psychedelic Experts
The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has experimented with various psychedelic compounds (take  the CIA’s secret attempts at LSD...
April M. Short · 4,685 views · unrated
The Death of Liberal Democracy?
The Death of Liberal Democracy?
On Friday, June 24th, 2016, a majority of people voting in a referendum in the United Kingdom chose to leave the European Union.
Rhyd Wildermuth · 2,476 views · unrated
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 · 2,787 views · 4.5 stars
23 Films to Watch After (Or Instead Of) Planet of the Humans
23 Films to Watch After (Or Instead Of) Planet of the Humans
So you just watched Planet Of The Humans, and your spirits are feeling pretty crushed.
Tim Hjersted · 9,169 views · 3 stars
We Must End the War in Ukraine by Challenging Evil—Not Becoming It
We Must End the War in Ukraine by Challenging Evil—Not Becoming It
What is anti-imperialism in this new era of East-West polarization?
Martin Winiecki · 4,320 views · 5 stars
Freedom of Mind - The Root of the Social Gospel
Freedom of Mind - The Root of the Social Gospel
What we need then for the social gospel to become a reality is more of a collective awakening, with more and more people becoming free of their lesser views and motivations.
Jason.espada · 1,957 views · 5 stars
[Essay] | Nothing Left, by Adolph Reed Jr. | Harper's Magazine - March 2014
[Essay] | Nothing Left, by Adolph Reed Jr. | Harper's Magazine - March 2014
The long, slow surrender of American liberals
Adolph Reed Jr. · 100 views · unrated
Five Axioms of Sustainability
Five Axioms of Sustainability
My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (based on a review of the literature) to help clarify the characteristics of a durable society.
Richard Heinberg · 2,710 views · unrated
US Unveils Iraq WMD "Curveball-Style" Lies as Pretext for Military Intervention in Syria
US Unveils Iraq WMD "Curveball-Style" Lies as Pretext for Military Intervention in Syria
Image: From Independent's "Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all: Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion." In retrospect, the corporate-media has no problem admitting the insidious lies that were told to...
Tony Cartalucci · 2,871 views · 4 stars
A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.” It was scheduled to air on PBS on November 12th. The...
JANE MAYER · 826 views · unrated
A Rejoinder on "The Sanders Paradox"
A Rejoinder on "The Sanders Paradox"
When CounterPunch published my essay “The Sanders Paradox: A Brief for Bernie” two weeks ago, I was hoping that it would trigger constructive, spirited discussion and debate on the left about the Sanders candidacy. With some 1,400 Facebook shares fromCounterPunch, and some...
William Kaufman · 1,640 views · unrated
Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue
Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue
The US government has repeatedly lied to the public in order to wage war abroad, and control other nations and their resources.
John Pilger · 9,349 views · 4.5 stars
President Jill Stein?
President Jill Stein?
"Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason."- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
Carl Gibson · 2,408 views · unrated