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Amish Farmer Faces $250K Fine, Jail Time and Losing His Sustainable Farm for Processing His Own Meat

Sara Burrows · Amos Miller’s private food club members say they don’t want their grass-fed meat treated with the chemical preservatives required by all USDA-approved processing plants

This Is Water (Or Is It Neoliberalism?)

Philip E. Mirowski · A meditation on Vercelli, Vernengo and Levitt & Seccareccia

Neoliberalism: the Movement That Dare Not Speak Its Name - American Affairs Journal

Philip Mirowski · Reactions against the use of the term neoliberalism have usually taken one of two forms: first, that “neoliberalism” is nothing more than a fevered delusion or a mirage perhaps shared...

How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich

Adam Ziemkowski and Rebekah Liebermann · Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City...

The Venus Project Plans to Bring Humanity to the Next Stage of Social Evolution. Here's How.

Daniel Araya with Roxanne Meadows · The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life’s work to present a sustainable redesign of our culture. The project lays out a sustainable world civilization where...

Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

Maciej Cegłowski · A fascinating talk by Maciej Cegłowski - given on November 11, 2016, at the Direction conference in Sydney - about who will control the ever increasing fully automated technology that...

How Prison Labor Is the New American Slavery and Most of Us Unknowingly Support It

Sara Burrows · If you buy products or services from any of the 50 companies listed below (and you likely do), you are supporting modern American slavery

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

Sara Burrows · Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical...

A Memorable Christmas in the NHS

Eimi Howse · If you need care this Christmas, the NHS will be there. A seasonal tale from a junior doctor.

How Men Reacted to Their Moms Getting Catcalled

Cavan Sieczkowski ·

Poverty & Tourism

Anna Gudarowska · Having spent 6 months living and volunteering in a small jungle village in rural Belize, I kept noticing some issues related to poverty that I knew were universal in developing...

"Elements of Resistance: Warriors of Peace"

Jeriah Bowser · The following is Chapter Six, in its entirety, from the forthcoming book, "Elements of Resistance: Violence, Nonviolence, and the State" by Jeriah Bowser and published by the Hampton...

Goldman Sachs Is Occupied

OWS · On October seventeenth (O17), a group of about 10 occupiers gathered outside 15 Central Park West, the address of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s multi-million dollar condo. Occupy...

6 Ways to Get Ready for the May 1st General Strike

OWS · Yesterday, 60,000 marched on Madison to mark the one-year anniversary of the passage of Governor Scott Walker's drastic dismantling of collective bargaining rights for public employees...

Osama bin Laden Won

Mike Burrows · And he continues to kick our asses posthumously. That’s right, he’s been dead for eleven fucking years and we’re still on orange alert. After years of dialysis and a less than...

2% Have 95% of the Wealth!

Mike Burrows · Redistribution of wealth. These are the three dirtiest words in the English language…to the 2% of Americans holding 95% of the country’s wealth. It’s of small wonder we hear...

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