Welcome to the Real News: Truth Is Essential, but Not Pretty

You may have heard that there is talk of a crackdown on "fake" news. Before a bankrolled bureaucrat starts filtering the media according to what they find personally acceptable, I feel it's my ethical responsibility to outline our true current situation first:

You Only Pay for Time at This Cafe

In this cafe, the food and drink is free. You just pay 7 cents per minute to be there.

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Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton: Two Figures in a Derailed World

What is the Way Out?

Dieter Duhm

The Burden of the New Story

The 'new story' - that longed for milieu when all is right with the world and things are set straight - seems to be taking its sweet time coming. Why?

Adebayo Akomolafe

The Four Qualities of Love

Thich Nhat Hanh explains the Four Qualities of Love that can bring deep meaning to our lives.

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Humanity's Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical, They're Human

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is incomplete as we commonly know it. Later in his life, Maslow wrote about a stage beyond self-actualization. Nichol Brandford explains how to arrive at this final place.

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What Is Universal Basic Income?

What is Universal Basic Income? Everyone’s talking about a ‘citizen’s income’ or ‘basic income’, but what on earth is it?! It sounds like a Utopian dream, but support for a flat, government-sponsored annual income is growing across the world. Exponents argue that it would...

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What Is Mutual Aid?

In a world ruled by ceaseless capitalist competition, where people are pitted to work against each other, anarchists offer a different vision: Mutual Aid. If you like videos like these consider supporting us - http://sub.media/donate To download this video visit...

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Incredible Angela Davis Lecture Ties Together Liberation Struggles Past and Present

In commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the murder in detention of Stephen Biko, the 17th annual Steve Biko lecture is delivered by Professor Angela Davis author, activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department...

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Basic Income and the Future of Work

There is no such thing as the dignity of work. It is not the right to employment but a guaranteed material existence that gives dignity to human life.

Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark

The Secret to Effective Nonviolent Resistance

We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative ways to conduct conflict that are equally powerful and effective. Raqib promotes nonviolent...

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What Are Democratic Schools?

Imagine a school where children and teenagers are accorded all the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship; where students truly practice, rather than just read about, the principles of free speech, free association, and freedom to choose their own activities...

Alternatives to School

One Man's Epic Journey to Show The World Is Full of Good People!

Rob Greenfield has a simple idea… that people are good and the world is a good place. So he decided to put his idea to the ultimate test by flying one way to a far off place with no money, no credit card, no cellphone, not even a toothbrush. Just the clothes on his back and...

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This Off Grid Handmade Island is One of the Most Amazing Homes in the World

Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island, a 45-minute boat ride to the nearest town, is a sustainable island fortress complete with a dance floor, art gallery and garden. For artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams, this is home: a labor of love 24 years in the making.

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My Favorite Definition of Privilege

My favorite definition of privilege is 'thinking something's not a problem because it's not a problem to you.'

Tim Hjersted

Recipe for Clinton / Kaine Lemonade

Hillary Clinton's pick of Tim Kaine for VP may trigger the sea change progressives have been dreaming of and working towards for decades. Please hear me out.

Michael Phillips

7 Solutions We Can Support Right Now to Transition to a Resource Based Economy

One of the downsides of presenting such a visionary solution to our global crisis is that it's hard to know where to begin, beyond raising awareness. The gap between where we are now, and where we'd like to go appears so great that it is not at all obvious how the transition...

Tim Hjersted

Two Brilliant Thinkers Had the Same Solution to Political Oligarchy: Direct Democracy

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralizing and monopolizing power and control. - Vandana Shiva

Yavor Tarinski

5 Ways the News Media Can Get Real

When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.

Sarah van Gelder

Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System

The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin

Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi

DIY Economics of Happiness Workshop

The Economics of Happiness Workshop and Toolkit is a do-it-yourself tool for activists and others that want to kick-start effective global-to-local action in their area or within an existing group.

Local Futures

Placing The Children's Fire at the Centre of Institutions of Power

The Children's Fire is part of the Earth teachings of the elders of ancient America. Over time the elders came to understand that all human-created institutions needed to reflect the balance and wisdom observed in nature. The Children's Fire was a reminder of the first...

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My First Journey With Psilocybin Mushrooms

In May 2013, my whole world shifted. At the time, I was living in Amsterdam and I began to feel the call to the Peruvian Amazon to work with the sacred plant medicine ayahuasca.

Arianna Joy

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills.

Meryn Callander

When We Attack Nature by Clearcutting Forests & Paving Farmland, We Attack Ourselves

Growing up in southern England and Wales, we always lived close to the woods, streams, and hills of the nearby countryside. The towns were built to be dense and tight, so it was relatively easy to walk out of the buildings and away from traffic into a land of kingfishers...

Guy Dauncey

The New Mind Manipulators

Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don’t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on. These are the findings of a series of scientific studies that show how a few dominant institutions have the...

Jeremy Lent

Building a Local Peace Economy: We Have the Power

When attending meetings with peace and justice activists, I often find myself the only business person in the room. Inevitably, someone makes a comment about the evils of business, or greedy capitalists, or some other negative comment that implies business people are the...

Judy Wicks

We Are Dreamers - A Guide to Lucid Dreaming

Lucid dreaming is to be aware when you are dreaming and to have a degree of control over the dream.

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11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Lately, new ways to describe human interactions, social behaviours, and many facets of psychology have emerged on the social network scene. One of those descriptions is “high emotional intelligence.”

Raven Fon

6 Examples of Something for Nothing (And Why a Basic Income Should be the 7th)

I talk a lot about Basic Income, the concept that everyone should be provided a minimum guaranteed income to provide for basic human necessities (food, clothing, shelter). All over the world it is

Matt Orfalea

Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design

The novelist Terry Pratchett once wrote, “people think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.” However it seems these types of dichotomies are often both/and more than they are either/or. It is true that we are shaped by the stories that we...

Tommy Lehe

A Monthly Income Just for Being Human, and Other Sensible Ideas

Unconditional basic income, a policy option that seems radical by American standards, is gaining new traction across Europe, Canada, and even a few places in the United States. Also known as “universal basic income,” the policy mandates a guaranteed stipend to every resident...

Leslee Goodman

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

United Natures explores the rights of Mother Earth, environmental philosophy, wisdom, spirituality, and the potential for a neo-indigenous future for humanity.

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Turning of the Whales (trailer)

Fresh out of college, a skinny nerd with little or no social skills, my worldview heavily influenced by an Enlightenment notion of the 'human', I decided to dedicate my academic energies towards proving the existence of the soul. My map was unimpeachably detailed and...

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Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

What gets you out of bed in the morning?

Chip Richards

The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East

Rahila Gupta meets the women fighters who are helping to stop the advance of ISIS while also leading a radical democratic charge against capitalist ideology. Welcome to the Rojava phenomenon.

Rahila Gupta

The Turning of the Whales: What If We Are Not Alone? What If the 'Others' Have Been Here All Along?

When famed New Zealander psychologist, Dr Paul Spong, was first invited by the University of British Columbia to study the sensory apparatus of killer whales at the Vancouver Aquarium, he no doubt thought his time with the cetaceans would be like his other experiments in the...

Adebayo Akomolafe

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?

Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk

Finding Warmth in a Dark Place: a Glimpse of #Nuitdebout

Last weekend, Nuit Debout’s international working group organized two days of assemblies and action planning on the Place de la République in Paris. Some hundred people came from all over Europe and beyond to get to know this new movement in one of the heartlands of the...

Manuela Zechner

Jim Carrey - Dream up a Good Life

Truly Inspiring speech by Jim Carrey.

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Making This Small Change Will Make a Profound Difference to Your Day

“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from...

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5 Articles Pointing the Way Toward a Post-Capitalist World

Sometimes when you are living within a system of oppression it is difficult to even see that the system exists, let alone imagine alternative ways of living and organising. Thankfully the system of capitalism, and its coke-fuelled cousin neoliberalism, that dominates the...

Andrew Butler

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there, we...

Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk

Can Love Stories Change the World?

Sharing tales of love is good for our souls, and allows us to be vulnerable with each other, writes Matt Hopwood. In his life changing journey of emotional exploration, he traveled over 1,500 miles in search of stories of the heart. He found them in abundance, along with...

Matt Hopwood

The News Is Center Right

The notion of the "liberal media" hides the fact that most corporate media isn't concerned about presenting a diversity of left-perspectives. That's because the media doesn't actually have a liberal agenda. It has a corporate agenda and it serves corporate profit and the...

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Postcards From a Horizontal World

New social movements are different. Instead of asking for alternatives, they are bringing them to life.

Marina Sitrin

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

The world today is in crisis. Everybody knows that. But what is driving this crisis? It's a story, a story that is destroying the world. It's a story about our relationship to the world and to other humans, but we take this story for granted. We don't even see it as a story...

Tim Hjersted

Work Through Creative Blocks With Beginner's Mind

“I don’t know anything.”

Jory Mackay

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic...

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Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

The world needs all of us to become healers. It needs us to nurture the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine that lies dormant to various degrees

Tim Hjersted

Consumerism Lies at the Heart of Our School System's Educational Purpose

A stream-of-consciousness reflection on the state of school, civilization, capitalism and the way we live our lives.

Tim Hjersted

Bureaucracy in the Workplace: Emergence, Morality, and Implications

I know, the “b” word is a drag, if not a complete mystery, for most of us. It’s a word few attempt to spell, let alone re-imagine. Yet aside from a number of outliers, most companies today continue to embrace a bureaucratic structure of operation. While it’s hard to dispute...

Zhivko Illeieff

Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It

A long, long time ago, an idea was born.

Tim Hjersted

Identity Politics and the Struggle Against Oppression

In the search for a way to fight against discrimination and oppression, many young people in particular embrace identity politics. It can be an important first step towards the development of socialist consciousness – if it leads on to an understanding of the class nature of...

Hannah Sell

Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress

Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and collaboration. It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that the globalized capitalist economy is...

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We Are Made for These Times: A Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times

My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Get Involved When It's None of Your Business

Working in a retail job, you think you’ve become accustomed to bad behavior on the part of children as well as parents. But you are appalled to see a mother use an umbrella to spank a small boy. Will intervening threaten the child or endanger your job?

Laura Grace Weldon

"The World Is My Country" Shows Origin of Yasiin Bey's World Passport

This clip from upcoming feature documentary "The World Is My Country" introduces the origins of and need for a World Passport.

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Nigerians Are Building Fireproof, Bulletproof, and Eco-Friendly Homes With Plastic Bottles and Mud

These colorful homes are bulletproof, fireproof, and can withstand earthquakes. They also maintain a comfortable temperature, produce zero carbon emissions, and are powered by solar and methane gas from recycled waste.

Amanda Froelich

Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."

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