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The Return of the Common(er)s
The Return of the Common(er)s
Now is the time to transcend the failing systems around us—not by fighting them, but by quietly building something better. This closing article explores how an alternative social and...
Michel Rauchs · 1,213 views
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
From alpine pastures and salmon fisheries to offshore wind farms and online encyclopedias, commons take many forms. This article explores a wide range of real-world commons that span...
Michel Rauchs · 557 views
Are We Good Americans?
Are We Good Americans?
If our country wipes out a civilization, and even if our country doesn’t but was ready to, was even eager to, will we all have lunch tomorrow like any other day? Will we get up, get out...
Michael Albert · 823 views
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Tl;dr: For historical and cultural reasons, the Commons has remained largely overlooked or misunderstood. But today, it’s more important than ever to restore it as a vital third mode of...
Michel Rauchs · 1,969 views
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
Tl;dr: We are facing an overlapping set of crises that our dominant institutions seem unable to address. While many have withdrawn in disillusionment, their latent desire for change can...
Michel Rauchs · 2,242 views
No Kings Now, and Then More
No Kings Now, and Then More
No Kings is historically good at mobilizing. Radicals and revolutionaries need to be historically good at compatibly organizing.
Michael Albert · 471 views
A Few Hopefully Non Redundant Ruminations on Epstein, Chomsky, and Us
A Few Hopefully Non Redundant Ruminations on Epstein, Chomsky, and Us
Jeffrey Epstein was a horrifying but oddly “talented” specimen of humanity. He had some combination of “qualities” that facilitated his assembling an
Michael Albert · 516 views
The Horror of Trump's Press Conference From a Venezuelan Perspective
The Horror of Trump's Press Conference From a Venezuelan Perspective
This moment demands political maturity. You can oppose Maduro and still oppose US aggression. You can want change and still reject foreign control. You can be angry, desperate, or...
Michelle Ellner · 1,169 views
Chomsky Reassessed?
Chomsky Reassessed?
Knowing him for over half a century, I am confident that Noam’s hate for sexism, misogyny, racism, exploitation and fascism didn’t lose even a tiny fraction of its passion and clarity...
Michael Albert · 2,041 views
Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse
Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse
Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious.
Michelle Ellner · 2,990 views
Tools for Growing the Commons
Tools for Growing the Commons
The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.
Michel Rauchs · 6,124 views
Stop Trump's Murder Spree and We Could Also Stop a War With Venezuela
Stop Trump's Murder Spree and We Could Also Stop a War With Venezuela
Under international law, executing people outside a genuine armed conflict is an extrajudicial killing. Nothing about these strikes meets the legal threshold for war. But if we don't...
Michelle Ellner · 255 views
'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize
'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize
As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and...
Michelle Ellner · 618 views
A Localism Manifesto
A Localism Manifesto
With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.
Michael Shuman · 1,230 views
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care...
Michael Moore · 8,732 views
Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel
Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel
"While Israel has had a right-wing government for much of the last 25 years, the government that took power in late 2022 has become a fascist government with little respect for the...
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 2,652 views
Michael Hoexter: Politically Fashionable Carbon Gradualism Vs. Reality | Naked Capitalism
Michael Hoexter: Politically Fashionable Carbon Gradualism Vs. Reality | Naked Capitalism
Posted on July 11, 2013 by Yves Smith
Michael F. Hoexter · 241 views
Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial
Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial
Posted on September 7, 2016
Michael Hoexter, Ph.D. · 289 views
'Widespread and Severe.' The Climate Crisis Is Here, but There’s Still Time to Limit the Damage
'Widespread and Severe.' The Climate Crisis Is Here, but There’s Still Time to Limit the Damage
BY MICHAEL E. MANN | AUGUST 9, 2021 5:00 AM EDT
Michael E. Mann · 205 views
Realclimate: A Tale of Two Hockey Sticks
Realclimate: A Tale of Two Hockey Sticks
Posted: 9 Aug 2021
Michael E. Mann · 237 views
The Use and Abuse of MMT
The Use and Abuse of MMT
Michael Hudson | Friday, April 10, 2020
Michael Hudson, Dirk Bezemer, Steve Keen and T.Sabri Öncü · 407 views
Firing Alan Greenspan
Firing Alan Greenspan
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2012
Michael Hudson · 184 views
Global warming: planning not pricing - July 22, 2021
Global warming: planning not pricing - July 22, 2021
Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming and destructive climate change. ...
Michael Roberts · 166 views
Michael Brooks on Why the War on the Poor Must End
Michael Brooks on Why the War on the Poor Must End
Two years ago, our late friend and comrade Michael Brooks wrote an unpublished piece about his family’s experience with food stamps and Trump’s assault on the SNAP program. We publish it...
MICHAEL BROOKS · 97 views
Asset-Price Inflation and Rent Seeking
Asset-Price Inflation and Rent Seeking
Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019
Michael Hudson · 206 views
Finance Capitalism Versus Industrial Capitalism: the Rentier Resurgence and Takeover | Michael Hudson
Finance Capitalism Versus Industrial Capitalism: the Rentier Resurgence and Takeover | Michael Hudson
Published by Sage Journals
Michael Hudson · 172 views
Who Really Designates America's Priorities, Villains and Future?
Who Really Designates America's Priorities, Villains and Future?
Why Questioning the Rationality of Capitalist Nationalism is Essential for Humanity's Continued Evolution (and Existence)
Michael Emero · 4,577 views
Racism Is No Illusion. 'Racecraft' Is.
Racism Is No Illusion. 'Racecraft' Is.
Why race is like Santa Claus—a pervasive myth we love to convince each other of.
Cedrick-Michael Simmons · 2,750 views
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
2014 Book Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Michael Hoexter · 2,627 views
Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature
Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature
How do we get from the world of now to the society we long to live in?
Michael Nagler · 7,052 views
Introducing the Wire International - A Response to Media Oligarchy
Introducing the Wire International - A Response to Media Oligarchy
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate critical perspectives around the world.
Michael Galant · 2,337 views
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Everyone knows that the three, multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bills passed by Congress fall way short.  For most local businesses—the lifeblood of our economy—these bills offer too...
Michael Shuman · 1,346 views
Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction
Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction
This past weekend, a bright Georgetown undergraduate asked me how I squared my passion for localization with the theory of comparative advantage. For economics newbies, he was referring...
Michael Shuman · 9,727 views
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America’s debt overhead was pricing...
Michael Hudson · 5,228 views
To Stop the Cult of Trump We Need to Satisfy the Human Need for Meaning
To Stop the Cult of Trump We Need to Satisfy the Human Need for Meaning
Like all cult leaders, Trump fills a certain void for his followers. Stopping him means providing pathways to sustainable forms of spiritual fulfillment.
Michael Nagler · 1,250 views
The Political Economy of Anti-Racism
The Political Economy of Anti-Racism
This essay originated as a kind of stump speech, an effort to spell out and update an argument about the uses of anti-racism and anti-discrimination that I’ve been making for some time...
Walter Benn Michaels · 1,247 views
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of...
Michael Lerner · 1,652 views
Imagine for a Moment.... a Future to Believe In
Imagine for a Moment.... a Future to Believe In
Just imagine living in an America that has the policies Bernie & Co. are pushing for. Poverty will be virtually eliminated. Medical and Student Debt Relief will be huge burdens lifted...
Michael Emero · 2,146 views
The Reality of #Bernieorbust
The Reality of #Bernieorbust
There are two ways to look at an election in America, particularly during the primary season. One is the idea that choosing a candidate is about preference. It's about who you can...
Michael Emero · 404 views
Biden Vs Trump. Warren Vs Bernie. Red Vs. Blue. Me Vs. You.
Biden Vs Trump. Warren Vs Bernie. Red Vs. Blue. Me Vs. You.
Turn on the TV, open a social media feed, and what do you find? Scandals in the Ukraine, with arguments over whose dirty hands are more at fault. Outrage over celebrities chumming up to...
Michael Emero · 436 views
The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet
The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.
Michaela Haas · 2,390 views
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
Joanna Macy talks about three tasks needed to bring in a world of spiritual progress: create new institutions, change the culture, and stop the worst of the damage. At Metta we feel that...
Prof. Michael Nagler · 8,279 views
My Fellow Americans
My Fellow Americans
This country is held together by lies. Our state religion is indoctrinated to us all as children until we can no longer use logic or rationality properly. We are schooled that we're...
Michael Emero · 435 views
The State of the Spirit, 2018
The State of the Spirit, 2018
1. The State of the Spirit, 2018
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 2,198 views
Syria may be using chemical weapons against its citizens again
Syria may be using chemical weapons against its citizens again
Here’s how international law has changed to help countries intervene
Michael Scharf, Case Western Reserve University · 236 views
Capitalism Is Killing Patients... and Their Physicians
Capitalism Is Killing Patients... and Their Physicians
Physician burnout, depression, and suicide increasingly invade discussions within the medical field. Depression and suicide are more common among male and female physicians, with suicide...
Dr. Michael Pappas · 1,437 views
Raise Your Son to Be a Good Man, Not a ‘Real’ Man
Raise Your Son to Be a Good Man, Not a ‘Real’ Man
Michael Kimmel · 9,147 views
"Rationality Is a Russian Shill"
"Rationality Is a Russian Shill"
We need to build a national anti-war campaign. The establishment's propaganda machine is working overtime filling all of our heads with this governmental soap opera drama, maintaining...
Michael Emero · 682 views
Have You Seen the New E-Trade Commercials Which Sum up Modern America?
Have You Seen the New E-Trade Commercials Which Sum up Modern America?
Has anyone seen the new E-Trade commercials running, which sum up the problem with modern America? They show some frustrated grunt workers, being scorned and scoffed at by rich assholes...
Michael Emero · 669 views
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...
Michael Bader · 3,926 views
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...
Michael Bader · 7,693 views
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
It’s really hard to talk about guns and gun violence, primarily due to the fact that the NRA has spent an insane amount of money brainwashing American citizens with catchy bumper-sticker...
Michael E Sparks · 299,783 views
The Promise of a Million Utopias
The Promise of a Million Utopias
If more of us could embrace “live and let live,” if we were willing to give every geographic area an opportunity to create its own utopia, Americans might be thrilled to reengage with...
Michael Shuman · 4,415 views
I Don't Want Your Leaders
I Don't Want Your Leaders
In 2017, I wrote a lot about how dangerously centralized our political system in the U.S. has become, and how we need to decentralize governance in order to restore power, liberty and...
Michael Krieger · 319 views
Identifying the American Taliban
Identifying the American Taliban
You may have heard of the Religious Right, yet the Left is just as religious. Both faithfully do worship- not Christianity, however, but today's Cult of Profits. 'Representatives' serve...
Michael Emero · 1,290 views
The Divided States of Hypocrisy: Americans, Prisoners of Language.
The Divided States of Hypocrisy: Americans, Prisoners of Language.
We The People, in general, are a divided people. Pick any topic or issue, and there is bound to be some heated version of "Us and Them"- if not outright conflict over it. We seem to...
Michael Emero · 2,533 views
How the Elite Dominate the World
How the Elite Dominate the World
Part 1: Debt As A Tool Of Enslavement
Michael Snyder · 228 views
Let's Call a Spade a Spade, America...
Let's Call a Spade a Spade, America...
The Democratic Party is, ironically, still certain that using insincere public relations strategies can solve growing public distrust/disgust of their political elite con-men. Their...
Michael Emero · 580 views
The Real Problem With Trump Is He's a Great American.
The Real Problem With Trump Is He's a Great American.
What does it mean to be American? Citizenship, one may think, but the media and court of public opinion would disagree. True patriotism gets interpreted by some as angrily defending...
Michael Emero · 5,395 views
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
I’m republishing this article I wrote a few months before the 2016 election because it contains an analysis which is absolutely essential for anyone who wishes to participate in...
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 2,906 views
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We...
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 1,565 views
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
Organize a fundraiser for a peacebuilding non-profit across the street from their event, or somewhere close by.
Arno Arr Michaelis IV · 3,880 views
14 Reflections on the 2017 DSA Convention
14 Reflections on the 2017 DSA Convention
In order for the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2017 Convention to be successful, three major tasks needed to be accomplished this past weekend. 1. Members needed to develop...
Michael Stivers · 1,624 views
Ancient Greece Could Hold the Key to Solving Today’s Debt Crisis
Ancient Greece Could Hold the Key to Solving Today’s Debt Crisis
Ancient Greece is perhaps best known for its contributions to mankind in the areas of philosophy, architecture, and science. But a modern-day economist suggests that some of the economic...
Michael Nevradakis · 267 views
Russia Russia Russia
Russia Russia Russia
Putting America's greatest threats in truthful perspective.
Michael Emero · 3,205 views
Rational Self-Preservation Through Global Unity
Rational Self-Preservation Through Global Unity
Imagine a world where instead of eternally fighting each other in defense of our various cliques, cults, colors, creeds or groups, we began first defending all humans and the planet...
Michael Emero · 3,371 views
Sometimes We Must Change the Variables of Our Equation
Sometimes We Must Change the Variables of Our Equation
Doing the 'right thing' in life is super important. Miss a few car payments at eighteen, and those rates will jump. Overdraft by two dollars, a barely-working monthly budget becomes...
Michael Emero · 2,483 views
Defeating Lesser-Evil Public Relations 101
Defeating Lesser-Evil Public Relations 101
Understanding and confronting the modern norm of death by duplicitous politicking.
Michael Emero · 666 views
Make America Think Again: Reprogramming Our Brains Beyond Capitalist Consumerism
Make America Think Again: Reprogramming Our Brains Beyond Capitalist Consumerism
It's been said that the original computers are our brains. But what if that's more than a metaphor? What if I told you we could use that analogy as insight, and escape mental slavery by...
Michael Emero · 1,094 views
Understanding American Society: Humanity's Paradox of Progress
Understanding American Society: Humanity's Paradox of Progress
Civilization is really just the organization of humankind coalescing and maturing. Our contrasting ideas produce positive collaboration when peacefully harmonized- artistically...
Michael Emero · 874 views
Understanding American Society: Keeping Unprofitable Peace Unpopular
Understanding American Society: Keeping Unprofitable Peace Unpopular
While skepticism in human nature today seems absolutely warranted, the reality is most people in the world are quite peaceful. Consciously or unconsciously, the vast majority of...
Michael Emero · 698 views
American Society: the Spiritual Bailout
American Society: the Spiritual Bailout
Humility, acceptance of constructive criticism, always being open to the possibility of differing perspectives and superior new information- these are critical attributes when defining...
Michael Emero · 612 views
American Terrorism Is Best Viewed From a Mirror
American Terrorism Is Best Viewed From a Mirror
What makes someone a terrorist? Someone who has an inclination toward violence to get their way. Someone who can't be reasoned with using logic or facts. They will not or cannot see any...
Michael Emero · 1,828 views
The Case for Individual Independence
The Case for Individual Independence
True democracy is a nation of Independent voters. Allegiance to any one political party is putting part of our identities into other people's hands. Selecting our best qualified...
Michael Emero · 460 views
America's Greatest Enemy Is Our Own Self-Defeating Division
America's Greatest Enemy Is Our Own Self-Defeating Division
"Capitalism is Evil!" "No, socialism is Evil!" "You must love oligarchy!" "You must love communism!" Sound familiar? That's what passes for "debate" these days- beating each other over...
Michael Emero · 5,891 views
The Real "Us or Them" Choice
The Real "Us or Them" Choice
The most important truth for anyone to understand today is this: Without limits and oversight, Capitalism is Sociopathy. When used as a tool in carefully monitored ethical and humane...
Michael Emero · 740 views
Reassessing America's Political Landscape
Reassessing America's Political Landscape
Now that the Democrats have (s)elected their latest unrepentant Clinton lackey and protoge of Neoliberal corporatism for the spot of DNC Chair-- in a secretive unrecorded vote, no less...
Michael Emero · 785 views
You Want Nationalism? Fine, You Got It.
You Want Nationalism? Fine, You Got It.
The following piece is a work of satire*. The fact that it is nearly indistinguishable from some folk’s disturbing view of reality is, I think, an apt commentary on our citizenry’s...
Michael Emero · 370 views
Common Sense Revisited: the Activism of Kindness
Common Sense Revisited: the Activism of Kindness
Everything we do in life serves as an example to someone, whether anyone involved is even consciously aware of it. Whatever these people (be it ourselves, co-workers, kids, family, even...
Michael Emero · 997 views
The Lessons of Standing Rock
The Lessons of Standing Rock
In mid-November of 2016, I was a Water Protector at Standing Rock. At first my goal was to play investigative journalist; documenting then writing about every detail for my article...
Michael Emero · 4,215 views
The Real Division: Humanity Vs Psychopathy
The Real Division: Humanity Vs Psychopathy
Want to be able to breath throughout this coming decade? Are you against the for-profit tax-funded constant wars, drone strikes, and bloated military industrial complex? Maybe even...
Michael Emero · 459 views
Surviving Capitalist Depression
Surviving Capitalist Depression
We live in a toxic society filled with toxic people. Even the ones with the best hearts- including ourselves- have been raised in ignorance, with disinformation. Our examples of...
Michael Emero · 27,188 views
21 Thinkers Responses to Questions About Eco Sustainability and the Threat of Near Term Human Extinction
21 Thinkers Responses to Questions About Eco Sustainability and the Threat of Near Term Human Extinction
Noam Chomsky, Charles Eisenstein, Beth Payne from Redneck Revolt, along with many other activists, writers, and scientists (and even Vermin Supreme!) on How to stop the Ecological Crisis...
John Michael Carico · 319 views
Former White Supremacist: Why Punching Nazis in the Face Is a Bad Idea
Former White Supremacist: Why Punching Nazis in the Face Is a Bad Idea
I see all sorts of well-meaning and otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people applauding neo-Nazi Richard Spencer being punched in the face. Here’s why this is not something to celebrate:
Arno Arr Michaelis IV · 19,400 views
The Mental "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Principle
The Mental "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Principle
Humans are fascinating creatures. Our brains are wired to solve puzzles, so we see them everywhere. In the news, in our relationships, in movies and foreign policy- we take the...
Michael Emero · 1,111 views
The New Worldwide Rallying Cry: Ethical Humanism
The New Worldwide Rallying Cry: Ethical Humanism
There's a meme going around that says "My religion is kindness; I'm basically against anything that harms the planet or the people on it." Another one points out, "If your religion...
Michael Emero · 779 views
The Political Elite: Idiots... or Criminals?
The Political Elite: Idiots... or Criminals?
I've been seeing a lot of people convinced that the DNC and all establishment Democrats are total idiots. How could they not be, when they sabotaged an easy win (Bernie) to prop up a...
Michael Emero · 1,414 views
Choosing and Practicing Happiness: Handling Negative Emotions
Choosing and Practicing Happiness: Handling Negative Emotions
Being truly happy isn't some gift or new toy you're given (though many people confuse the two). It's not the moment all your perceived negatives are resolved, nor a state of perpetually...
Michael Emero · 423 views
How to Shape Economic Policy When We Move Beyond GDP
How to Shape Economic Policy When We Move Beyond GDP
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems –...
Michael Kitson · 2,927 views
Politics as Religion; Escaping the Cult
Politics as Religion; Escaping the Cult
If you want to explain the political landscape of this country to anyone unfamiliar- be it a foreigner or the youth- simply explain it as our national religion. Because that's what it...
Michael Emero · 1,336 views
Obama: Raising an American Phoenix From the False Hope
Obama: Raising an American Phoenix From the False Hope
Obama is a great actor and speech-giver, but his war policies reflect those of Bush, and his economic policies are straight neoliberal Clintonesque. Buying into the thrill of having the...
Michael Emero · 883 views
You Might Call It Socialism; I Call It Being Rational.
You Might Call It Socialism; I Call It Being Rational.
A government of pure social democracy is vilified and continually cast as an evil (ie, Red scaring) simply because it would reverse the current economic inequality model- empowering and...
Michael Emero · 1,116 views
It's Not Racism Vs. Anti-Racism; It's Capitalism Vs. Socialism
It's Not Racism Vs. Anti-Racism; It's Capitalism Vs. Socialism
Why instead of a more complicated understanding of identity, we need a more profound understanding of exploitation
Walter Benn Michaels · 8,322 views
Rise Up, America
Rise Up, America
2016 showed that America's politics are a corrupt game for the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor and powerless. In my view, that proven fact takes immediate precedence over...
Michael Emero · 1,797 views
Activism = Appetite for Destruction
Activism = Appetite for Destruction
“The hands that build can also pull down…” (Jeremiah 1:10)
Mickey Z. · 832 views
Debunking the Sponsored Fallacy of American "Representative Democracy"
Debunking the Sponsored Fallacy of American "Representative Democracy"
I recently posted this, my latest article, up on a Reddit sub. One individual, playing the role of governmental apologist, responded to my writing- "They may b
Michael Emero · 655 views
Welcome to the Real News: Truth Is Essential, but Not Pretty
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...
Michael Emero · 5,565 views
Election Day 411: a Fireside Chat
Election Day 411: a Fireside Chat
The decision is yours today; would you like all the facts first?
Michael Emero · 676 views
True American Patriotism Is Often Revolutionary
True American Patriotism Is Often Revolutionary
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." / "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my...
Michael Emero · 840 views
Speaking Truth: Strength Through Diversity Is America's Superpower
Speaking Truth: Strength Through Diversity Is America's Superpower
This election year has been absolutely unprecidented, even for people who have no real interest in politics. The television tells us that one of the two most untrusted, disliked...
Michael Emero · 720 views
Rebooting Our Perspective
Rebooting Our Perspective
Let's all take a moment to clear our aching, overstuffed heads. Empty your mind of every piece of political rhetoric you've heard for one moment. Now please, for the sake of human lives...
Michael Emero · 382 views
The Patient Road of Balancing Ying and Yang
The Patient Road of Balancing Ying and Yang
There was once an old blind man who lived high atop a mountain. He was named a Shaman by the busy village below- as much for his great wisdom as for the uncanny way he could navigate...
Michael Emero · 394 views
Correct the Record = Domestic Terrorism
Correct the Record = Domestic Terrorism
You're probably saying, "Well, no- CTR may be immoral, evil censorship, but certainly not domestic terrorism." And in a relatively balanced environment, or if one looks only at the...
Michael Emero · 3,012 views
A Dose of American Truth
A Dose of American Truth
Since you won't see it anywhere in mainstream channels... are you ready for some too-real-for-print headlines and no-bull actual reporting?
Michael Emero · 1,531 views
Forget Terror; Americans Need a War on Fear
Forget Terror; Americans Need a War on Fear
Edward Snowden fled the country and risked his own life to expose our government's Orwellian spying and constant, widespread privacy violations. He revealed to the world that nearly...
Michael Emero · 2,108 views
The Ethical and Legal Case for Revolutionary Thinking
The Ethical and Legal Case for Revolutionary Thinking
Okay, apologies for the length, but bear with me on this. It's time for the masses to receive some truthful perspective instead of just the usual sponsored fear and hopelessness.
Michael Emero · 1,455 views
Enough Is Enough: Democracy Is Dead
Enough Is Enough: Democracy Is Dead
It's time to shine the harsh light of truth on the players and policies in our farce of "politics" and this "election" year. It's time to re-evaluate what this group is really about, and...
Michael Emero · 565 views
Is Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign?
Is Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign?
Friends, Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it. I’m not saying that Trump and I shared the...
Michael Moore · 18,774 views
A Pacifist's Call for Revolutionary Thinking
A Pacifist's Call for Revolutionary Thinking
We deserve real representation, accountability and justice - not just taxes and wage slavery within an oligarchic for-profit warmongering police state.
Michael Emero · 426 views
A Strategic Voting Guide and Q&A For Progressives Thinking about the 2016 Election
A Strategic Voting Guide and Q&A For Progressives Thinking about the 2016 Election
Navigating the current political terrain means asking key strategic questions without losing sight of long-term vision
Michael Albert and Stephen Shalom · 21,613 views
What's to Be Done With Oxfam?
What's to Be Done With Oxfam?
Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the societies they’re trying to change, where do NGOs go next?
Michael Edwards · 596 views
We Watched Angry Activists Release Thousands of Bugs in a Busy London Restaurant
We Watched Angry Activists Release Thousands of Bugs in a Busy London Restaurant
Burger restaurant chain Byron hit the headlines for allegedly lying to their staff and calling fake meetings so immigration officials could swoop and make arrests. It's an incident...
Michael Segalov · 18,433 views
The Need for Common Ground, and the Need to Do What You Do
The Need for Common Ground, and the Need to Do What You Do
Both Trump and Clinton are scary bad news. There's plenty of time to make a decision. You don't have to answer to anyone when you make it. Whichever decision you make, make it part of a...
Michael J. Dumas · 4,757 views
Recipe for Clinton / Kaine Lemonade
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 · 6,811 views
How Can We Make Our Politics Reflect What's Best in Us and Not What's Worst?
How Can We Make Our Politics Reflect What's Best in Us and Not What's Worst?
Both inner and outer change are essential for political transformation.
Michael Edwards · 3,211 views
America 2.0: Maturity
America 2.0: Maturity
I want you all to take a deep breath with me now. Seriously. Ready? Gently breathe in... fill your lungs... now slowly fully exhale out. Then say it with me: This revolution is just...
Michael Emero · 908 views
After Last Week's Tragedies, What Can Be Said That Hasn't Been Said Before?
After Last Week's Tragedies, What Can Be Said That Hasn't Been Said Before?
I have struggled to find words to express what I thought and felt as I watched the videos of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile being killed by the police. Last night, I wanted to say...
Michelle Alexander · 5,478 views
The Insanity of NOT Being #Stillsanders
The Insanity of NOT Being #Stillsanders
What happened in Orlando was a tragedy. My heart breaks for the lives taken, and those left behind filled with pain and only questions. But even though it may be considered politically...
Michael Emero · 3,875 views
It's 2016 and Two Men Kissing Is Still a Stunning, Terrifying Sight
It's 2016 and Two Men Kissing Is Still a Stunning, Terrifying Sight
Just existing as a queer person is still a radical —and very dangerous — act.
Noah Michelson · 5,137 views
An Open Letter to the Democratic Party From the Berniecrats
An Open Letter to the Democratic Party From the Berniecrats
The time for status quo shortsightedness, superficiality, and consumerist distraction has passed- and your permission is not required.
Michael Emero · 33,183 views
Hillary Clinton: a True Pioneer of Historical Firsts
Hillary Clinton: a True Pioneer of Historical Firsts
This landmark election cycle has been narrated seemingly ad nauseam in the corporate media world - but could there be even more monumental trends to this story than meets the mainstream eye?
Michael Emero · 19,419 views
The Inevitable Rise of the Berniecrats
The Inevitable Rise of the Berniecrats
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." - Robert A. Heinlein
Michael Emero · 12,160 views
Are You Really Supporting Your Candidate?
Are You Really Supporting Your Candidate?
You've got the bumper sticker, you're in the Facebook groups, maybe you've even voted already. What if I told you, that's just the beginning?
Michael Emero · 374 views
How to Outsmart the Media
How to Outsmart the Media
Michael Emero · 486 views
Concerning "Bernie or Bust"
Concerning "Bernie or Bust"
Have you seen the article going around, with the headline "Will some Democrats refuse to rally behind their nominee?"
Michael Emero · 29,312 views
Why Bernie Sanders?
Why Bernie Sanders?
If you think every election, every candidate, and every campaign is the same... you might have to think again.
Michael Emero · 817 views
The Democratic Party: a Stubborn Donkey's Path to Success
The Democratic Party: a Stubborn Donkey's Path to Success
In this topsy-turvy anti-establishment election year, is there really hope for old-school big-tent party revival?
Michael Emero · 4,160 views
Correcting the Record: Bernie Wins
Correcting the Record: Bernie Wins
While everyone is overly focused on distractionist drama and election results, America's real victories are being won without media fanfare. The political landscape is changing- and the...
Michael Emero · 1,079 views
Peace Vs. Justice!
Peace Vs. Justice!
Imagine you are a diplomat in the US government. You have just been informed that Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, is willing to negotiate a transfer of power to the opposition in...
Michael Holtzman · 1,008 views
Fighting American Ignorance
Fighting American Ignorance
Michael Emero · 363 views
Gift of the Millennials: a Healthy Skepticism
Gift of the Millennials: a Healthy Skepticism
Have you heard this thing going around, saying there's been some sort of shift in humanity? Some have even named it, calling it "The Awakening". But I never take anyone at their word...
Michael Emero · 700 views
The Most Unlikely Delegate?
The Most Unlikely Delegate?
A very personal, frank overview of my life and logic leading to dedicated political activist involvement.
Michael Emero · 665 views
Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies
Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies
 When maximizing profits isn’t the only goal, companies can actually work better.
 Michelle Chen · 22,840 views
10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy
10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy
News of the poisoned water crisis in Flint has reached a wide audience around the world. The basics are now known: the Republican governor, Rick Snyder, nullified the free elections in...
Michael Moore · 6,198 views
Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water. Instead, Join Us in a Revolt
Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water. Instead, Join Us in a Revolt
Many of you have contacted me wanting to know how you can help the people of Flint with the two-year long tragedy of drinking water contaminated by the radical decisions made by the...
Michael Moore · 4,573 views
Bad News for Democracy Is Great News for TV Profits
Bad News for Democracy Is Great News for TV Profits
It's not good enough to say the money comes from the XYZ Fund for Swell Americans; we need to know the wealthy individuals and corporate interests that are secretly pulling the levers.
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship · 1,492 views
Compassion and Solidarity: Les Miserables and the Plight of Syrian Refugees
Compassion and Solidarity: Les Miserables and the Plight of Syrian Refugees
NOV 19- President Francois Hollande of France announced yesterday that his country will continue to honor its commitment to settle 30,000 refugees o
Louis Michel · 350 views
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Last month, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we’d met in person; he first emailed me nearly two years earlier...
Micah Lee · 11,086 views
Global Seed Vault Authorizes First-Ever Seed Withdrawal
Global Seed Vault Authorizes First-Ever Seed Withdrawal
Arctic repository is making the move to assist researchers sidelined by Syria’s Civil War.
Michael d'Estries · 1,726 views
Do You Yearn for a World of Love and Justice? So Do We.
Do You Yearn for a World of Love and Justice? So Do We.
And we're going to create that world together.
Rabbi Michael Lerner and Vandana Shiva · 4,901 views
Stop the Violence in Israel/Palestine
Stop the Violence in Israel/Palestine
As we watch in horror as violence in Israel and Palestine escalates and there continues to be needless and senseless killings, we offer a prayer of love, compassion and strength.
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 2,224 views
Wikileaks Exposes Secret Deal to Get Saudi Arabia on UN Human Rights Council
Wikileaks Exposes Secret Deal to Get Saudi Arabia on UN Human Rights Council
Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia to the UN Human Rights Council, leaked diplomatic cables have revealed the UK was a key player in the election of the Gulf...
Michaela Whitton · 21,686 views
In Praise of Self-Helpless
In Praise of Self-Helpless
The following is excerpted from The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path by Jay Michaelson, published by Ben Yahuda Press. In the 1990s, a prominent teacher of what’s called...
Jay Michaelson · 3,469 views
Rupert Murdoch and the Israeli Genie
Rupert Murdoch and the Israeli Genie
Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild are major shareholders in and members of the Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Energy. Israel has granted Genie oil exploration in the...
Michael Dickinson · 7,019 views
These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War
These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War
Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well.
Michael Todd Landis · 5,060 views
Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe In, and What's Wrong with Libertarians
Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe In, and What's Wrong with Libertarians
"Anarcho-syndicalism is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible...
Michael S. Wilson and Noam Chomsky · 15,505 views
Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities
Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities
This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and...
Cher Weixia Chen and Michael Gilmore · 4,365 views
Dear Activists, Maybe It's Time to Admit That We've Got It All Wrong
Dear Activists, Maybe It's Time to Admit That We've Got It All Wrong
“The first step in the revolution is eye contact.” - Alicen Grey
Mickey Z. · 5,947 views
The Pictures That Need to Be Seen
The Pictures That Need to Be Seen
Volunteers, aid workers from the Libya Red Crescent, and Zuwarans moved into action by the unfolding tragedy, have recovered 116 bodies from a stretch of coast west of the town right up...
Mark Micallef · 494 views
12 Black Woman Spoken Word Poets Everyone Should Know
12 Black Woman Spoken Word Poets Everyone Should Know
Spoken word poetry has had varying levels of mainstream popularity over the past fifteen years. If you were like me, in the early 2000’s, you stayed up anxiously on Friday nights to...
Michelle Denise Jackson · 627 views
Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition
Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition
Racism is the demeaning of an entire group of people and refusing to see them as fully human in the way we see ourselves and those we deem to be “like” us. When we fail to see the...
Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis · 9,952 views
Windows 10 Might Be Free, but Your Privacy Is Priceless
Windows 10 Might Be Free, but Your Privacy Is Priceless
Beware of geeks bearing gifts
Mick Meaney · 7,765 views
Public Trust in the Establishment Has Shattered
Public Trust in the Establishment Has Shattered
(Acclaimed News) Public faith in politicians and their puppet corporate media has been slowly declining for decades thanks to the efforts of dissidents, researchers and activists, and...
Mick Meaney · 288 views
The Savagery of White America
The Savagery of White America
In July 1967, Stokely Carmichael addressed the Dialectics of Liberation Congress at Roundhouse with a potent articulation of the relations between race, capitalism and imperialism, set...
Stokely Carmichael · 170 views
Why We Can't Shop Ourselves Into a Better World
Why We Can't Shop Ourselves Into a Better World
We're still trying to eliminate sweatshops and child labor by buying right. But that's not how the world works in 2015.
Written by Michael Hobbes, Illustrated by Abigail Goh · 2,151 views
What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images
What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images
Last week, Pope Francis and church officials encouraged everyone to consume less and think more about our impact on the environment.
Michael McCutcheon · 204,102 views
I Thought It Was a Dystopian Nightmare, but Then I Realised I Wasn't Dreaming
I Thought It Was a Dystopian Nightmare, but Then I Realised I Wasn't Dreaming
You might be forgiven for believing that murder has become an official police policy. Yet again we see that another police officer has been cleared of murder – and yet again as the...
Mick Meaney · 200 views
You Won't Believe How Much Mass Surveillance Costs Each Household
You Won't Believe How Much Mass Surveillance Costs Each Household
The numbers are in. Not only does the British government spy on its citizens, it forces them to foot the bill. It is the taxpayers who bear the costs of the growth of mass surveillance...
Mick Meaney · 392 views
Inspired by Greece, UK Public Wants Its Own Austerity Referendum
Inspired by Greece, UK Public Wants Its Own Austerity Referendum
The wave of joyous solidarity at the Greek “No” vote still resounds across the world today, revealing millions who identify with the struggle and have had enough of being bullied and...
Michaela Whitton · 4,513 views
Tory Policies Force Britain's Poorest Families to Suffer the Most - Acclaimed News
Tory Policies Force Britain's Poorest Families to Suffer the Most - Acclaimed News
(Acclaimed News) A newly released report has revealed, as many have suspected, that British taxes are currently weighted in such a way that hits the poorest families harder than the...
Mick Meaney · 624 views
This report PROVES the police don't work to 'protect and serve' you
This report PROVES the police don't work to 'protect and serve' you
Today it has been revealed that a British police constabulary ignored almost 600 emergency calls last year, around 50 each month and more than one per day. According to a Fre
Mick Meaney · 251 views
An Economic Hit Man Speaks Out: John Perkins on How Greece Has Fallen Victim to ''Economic Hit Men''
An Economic Hit Man Speaks Out: John Perkins on How Greece Has Fallen Victim to ''Economic Hit Men''
John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, discusses how Greece and other eurozone countries have become the new victims of "economic hit men."
Michael Nevradakis · 37,242 views
In Defence of Greece: 6 Myths Busted
In Defence of Greece: 6 Myths Busted
Syriza’s negotiations with the Troika have fulfilled a pedagogical role : of showing the unwillingness of undemocratic institutions such as the EU and IMF to respect the democratic will...
Joseph Leigh, Lewis Bassett & Michael Walker · 1,343 views
The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond
The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond
Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance of local...
Michael Gould-Wartofsky · 1,896 views
Nonviolent Delusion and the Black Lives Matter Protest Movement
Nonviolent Delusion and the Black Lives Matter Protest Movement
MLK said a riot is the language of the unheard. Thank you Ferguson and Baltimore, maybe they are starting to listen now. . . Our pursuit for justice for
Louise Michel · 380 views
The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week
The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week
To save the world—or really to even just make our personal lives better—we will need to work less.
Michael J. Coren · 27,148 views
Ubuntu Movement
Ubuntu Movement
The people behind the UBUNTU Contribution System are not politicians or corporations with profit or control in mind. We are a growing group of HUMANS from all walks of life who consist...
Michael Tellinger · 204 views
Indiana Senate Passes Bill Allowing Employers to Discriminate Based on religion
Indiana Senate Passes Bill Allowing Employers to Discriminate Based on religion
License to discriminate: The Republican controlled Indiana Senate has p
Michael Stone · 785 views
6 Ways Cops Have Used Sex to Infiltrate and Disrupt Protest Groups
6 Ways Cops Have Used Sex to Infiltrate and Disrupt Protest Groups
Policing Through Sexual Infiltration “It must be a horrifying experience to discover that your partner is not the person they say they are; that they may have been relaying information...
Michael Loadentha · 498 views
Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned
Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned
American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They...
Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko · 580,528 views
Mourning the Parisian Journalists Yet Noticing the Hypocrisy
Mourning the Parisian Journalists Yet Noticing the Hypocrisy
As the editor of a progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine that has often articulated views that have prompted condemnation from both Right and Left, I had good reason to be scared by...
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 158,777 views
Nonviolent Delusion and the Brown and Garner Protest Movement
Nonviolent Delusion and the Brown and Garner Protest Movement
We've marched. We've "died-in." We've disrupted traffic. We've organized.  Now it's time for increased intensity to our ac
Louise Michel · 1,440 views
From Mike Brown to Eric Garner, the Specter of Revolt is Haunting NYC
From Mike Brown to Eric Garner, the Specter of Revolt is Haunting NYC
"A riot is the language of the unheard." - MLK
Louise Michel · 3,440 views
Panopticon Rising: Citizenfour Film Review
Panopticon Rising: Citizenfour Film Review
By Louis Michel New York - Virtually everyone in the world at some point in the past year saw Edward Snowden's face on a telescreen. His image was ubiqui
Louis Michel · 473 views
What Is Biocentrism?
What Is Biocentrism?
Biocentrism states that nature does not exist simply to be used or consumed by humans, but that humans are simply one species amongst many, and that because we are part of an ecosystem...
Michael Beecher · 498 views
The Massive Feminist Protest the English-Speaking World Completely Ignored
The Massive Feminist Protest the English-Speaking World Completely Ignored
If the ongoing GamerGate saga and last week's disappointing reminder of Bill Cosby's
Mic · 304 views
Comics: An Anarchic Approach
Comics: An Anarchic Approach
Sean Michael Wilson · 2,031 views
Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) are the latest in a long line of...
Michael Goodwin, Illustrated by Dan E. Burr · 303,396 views
Whose Consumption Is Killing the planet?
Whose Consumption Is Killing the planet?
It's not the impoverished billions, and it's not the majority of American consumers, either.
Ragina Johnson and Michael Ware · 29,750 views
We Can Win: Stories From 50 Years of Struggle
We Can Win: Stories From 50 Years of Struggle
These ten moving and often funny short films document a proud 50 year history of campaigning, strikes, occupations, work ins and solidarity in the name of fair pay, decent jobs, and...
Economic Justice Project · 1,390 views
Climate Change You Can Believe In
Climate Change You Can Believe In
Just as Sunday’s big People’s Climate March and next week’s UN global summit on climate converge here in New York City, the nation and world are experiencing weather of an intensity that...
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship · 3,757 views
Kansas Police Shoot Unarmed White Teen 16 times As By Standers Beg Them to Stop Shooting (Video)
Kansas Police Shoot Unarmed White Teen 16 times As By Standers Beg Them to Stop Shooting (Video)
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Michael Roach · 405 views
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The corporate media loves to talk about violent protesters, while the biggest forms of violence in our society go unchallenged.
Mickey Z. · 6,270 views
How Money Shapes the World...
How Money Shapes the World...
“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. They are not dependent on us. We are dependent on them. They are not an interruption in our work. They are the purpose of it...
Michael Beecher · 1,373 views
What Is the Supreme Court?
What Is the Supreme Court?
What is the supreme court? To some this may sound like a silly question but if you’re anything like me you didn’t fully understand the United States government until later in life and...
Michael Beecher · 4,208 views
What’s More Important… Economic Growth or Sustainability?
What’s More Important… Economic Growth or Sustainability?
“The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.” -Christopher Martenson What will the earth look like in 50 to...
Michael Beecher · 2,856 views
Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel
Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel
The way to become real friends of the Jewish people is to side with those Jews who are trying to get Israel back on track toward its highest values, knowing full well that there is no...
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 47,960 views
Tesla To Open Source ALL Of Its Patents, Won't Sue Anyone For Using Its Technology
Tesla To Open Source ALL Of Its Patents, Won't Sue Anyone For Using Its Technology
At a time when most high-tech companies are hoarding patents and suing each other, creating a complex web of cold war-style mutually-assured destruction, Tesla is going against the crowd...
Michael Graham Richard · 3,687 views
Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship · 2,037 views
Peak Oil becomes an Issue Again after the IEA Revises its Predictions
Peak Oil becomes an Issue Again after the IEA Revises its Predictions
Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” -- the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin an irreversible decline -- was...
Michael T. Klare · 3,522 views
Evgeny vs. the internet
Evgeny vs. the internet
Evgeny Morozov wants to convince us that digital technology can’t save the world, and he’s willing to burn every bridge from Cambridge to Silicon Valley to do it By Michael...
Michael Meyer · 831 views
Impeach Obama For the Right Reasons
Impeach Obama For the Right Reasons
Time and time again, US presidents have been impeached or forced to resign for all the wrong reasons.
Mike Micklow · 3,033 views
The Obamacare We Deserve
The Obamacare We Deserve
Today marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up.
Michael Moore · 1,874 views
What If the Emperor Had No Soldiers? Re-thinking: "Support the Troops"
What If the Emperor Had No Soldiers? Re-thinking: "Support the Troops"
“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to...
Mickey Z. · 2,942 views
What Happened to the "Global War on Terrorism"? The U.S. is "Fighting for Al Qaeda" in Syria.
What Happened to the "Global War on Terrorism"? The U.S. is "Fighting for Al Qaeda" in Syria.
Americans have been repeatedly told that Al Qaeda under the helm of the late Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Prof Michel Chossudovsky · 2,696 views
Dangerous Crossroads. A War on Syria, Prelude to a World War III Scenario?
Dangerous Crossroads. A War on Syria, Prelude to a World War III Scenario?
Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957:
Prof Michel Chossudovsky · 6,566 views
How America Reacted: Miley Cyrus VS Syria
How America Reacted: Miley Cyrus VS Syria
When the Ben Swann team has conference calls we certainly do not discuss pop culture. However, after watching the Miley Cyrus video pop up in my Facebook news-feed multiple times I said...
Michael Lotfi · 102,570 views
How to Fry a Planet
How to Fry a Planet
The Third Carbon Age: Don’t for a Second Imagine We’re Heading for an Era of Renewable Energy When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it...
Michael T. Klare · 3,132 views
Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4
Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4
What would it mean for us to reclaim July 4th not as a celebration of militarism, but as a celebration of our interdependence?
Michael Lerner · 6,835 views
World's Most Intrusive Database To Go Live In December
World's Most Intrusive Database To Go Live In December
Scotland plans to introduce a new highly intrusive database that will record every citizen's personal details from "cradle to grave", it emerged this week.
Mick Meaney · 774 views
Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive
Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive
A century ago, industrialists like Andrew Carnegie believed that Darwin’s theories justified an economy of vicious competition and inequality. They left us with an ideological legacy...
Eric Michael Johnson · 177,802 views
Factory Collapse in Bangladesh Shows Cracks in the System
Factory Collapse in Bangladesh Shows Cracks in the System
There are few ways to make a decent living in Bangladesh, but there are many ways to die trying. The cruel weight of that reality bore down on a Dhaka factory complex on Wednesday as it...
Michelle Chen · 15,323 views
Boston Truth: The "Chechen Connection," Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Boston Truth: The "Chechen Connection," Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Nine thousand heavily armed police including SWAT teams were deployed in a manhunt to capture a 19 year old student at U-Mass, after his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston...
Prof Michel Chossudovsky · 5,357 views
Why Does America Lose Its Head Over 'Terror' but Ignore its Daily Gun Deaths?
Why Does America Lose Its Head Over 'Terror' but Ignore its Daily Gun Deaths?
The thriving metropolis of Boston was turned into a ghost town on Friday. Nearly a million Bostonians were asked to stay in their homes – and willingly complied. Schools were closed...
Michael Cohen · 4,947 views
Former FBI Agent: Does US Government Intelligence Have to be so Unintelligent?
Former FBI Agent: Does US Government Intelligence Have to be so Unintelligent?
You would think that with an annual budget topping $70 billion, the intelligence community would employ the most rigorous scientific research methods and conduct exacting empirical...
Michael German · 2,423 views
Manufacturing Terrorists: Inside the FBI's Terror Sting Operations
Manufacturing Terrorists: Inside the FBI's Terror Sting Operations
Imagine a country in which the government pays convicted con artists and criminals to scour minority religious communities for disgruntled, financially desperate, or mentally ill patsies...
Michael German · 11,491 views
The Secret to Being as Radical as We Want to Be is to Finance the Revolution Ourselves
The Secret to Being as Radical as We Want to Be is to Finance the Revolution Ourselves
Gandhi understood that the key to freeing India was to transform his fellow citizens into economically productive agents by spinning their own cloth and taking their own salt from the sea.
Michael Shuman · 12,787 views
The Cradle-to-Cradle Solution
The Cradle-to-Cradle Solution
Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry—a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful...
William McDonough & Michael Braungart · 15,126 views
Terror in Anaheim
Terror in Anaheim
Last weekend, news cameras zoomed in on a theater in Aurora, where many moviegoers were shot down, apparently by a gunman trying to act out a crazed fantasy. While the mass killing...
MICHELLE CHEN · 3,173 views
How Invisible Children Falsely Marketed The LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act
How Invisible Children Falsely Marketed The LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act
I have travelled frequently to Uganda since 1998.   In 2007 I had the privilege of travelling extensively through the northern part of Uganda and visited the town of Gulu and several...
Michael Kirkpatrick · 4,718 views
After the Encampments: #OCCUPYMIGRATION and #OCCUPYHOMES
After the Encampments: #OCCUPYMIGRATION and #OCCUPYHOMES
The history of activism is a cat-and-mouse game of surprising tactical innovations that spark an insurrectionary situation and the counterstrategies developed to put down the revolt. In...
Micah White · 3,752 views
Occupy to Self Manage
Occupy to Self Manage
I have yet to see my nearest large occupation, Boston, or the precursor of all U.S. occupations, Wall Street. Instead, I have been on the road for the past six weeks in Thesselonika and...
Michael Albert · 2,982 views
Don't Occupy Wall Street, Ditch It!
Don't Occupy Wall Street, Ditch It!
I personally support the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, especially the spotlight it has cast on the shocking level of inequality in our country. But the movement oddly conveys a very...
Michael Shuman · 3,931 views
Why Aren't Public Universities More Transparent and Accountable?
Why Aren't Public Universities More Transparent and Accountable?
Over the last six months of researching for my work-in-progress documentary about the pitfalls of American higher education, The Elephant on Campus, there have been many problems I have...
Michael Newman · 9,044 views
The Meaning of 9/11
The Meaning of 9/11
9/11 remains one of the most misunderstood events in modern history.   The first myth is that it came out of the blue on an unsuspecting America.   In fact  it is known that 11 countries...
Michael Meacher MP · 6,049 views
How They Get Away With It
How They Get Away With It
This article will not attempt to prove that 911 is a USGIC (USG Intelligence Community) domestic covert operation, but it will show how such operations are covered up and disguised from...
Michael Green · 4,728 views
911 Plotters Bury the Evidence of Anthrax as their Follow-up Punch
911 Plotters Bury the Evidence of Anthrax as their Follow-up Punch
Bruce E. Ivins, a bioweapons researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, died Tuesday, July 29 2008, reportedly by suicidal drug overdose just as the...
Michael Green · 3,327 views
Mystery Firm Gives $1 Million to Pro-Romney Group, Then Dissolves
Mystery Firm Gives $1 Million to Pro-Romney Group, Then Dissolves
A corporation that contributed $1 million to a political action committee supporting the presidential bid of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has been dissolved just four months...
Michael Isikoff · 2,528 views
Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fund In The World Has Dumped All Of Their U.S. Treasury Bonds?
Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fund In The World Has Dumped All Of Their U.S. Treasury Bonds?
Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so...
The Economic Collapse · 4,164 views
Huff & Puff It Down - Towards a Vibrant Indy-Media Ecology
Huff & Puff It Down - Towards a Vibrant Indy-Media Ecology
Arianna Huffington has betrayed us, so let's huff and puff her house down.
Micah White & Tim Hjersted · 4,427 views
Hedgefund Executives Spent At Least $10 Million on Last Election
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