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Reclaiming Energy: Public Pathways to Break the Fossil Fuel Cycle
Reclaiming Energy: Public Pathways to Break the Fossil Fuel Cycle
What if energy could be reclaimed as a global public good, free from profit-driven systems and rooted in justice? Here's how we can make that happen.
Lavinia Steinfort, Rowan Mataram, James Angel · 101 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 · 806 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 · 455 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 · 500 views
Send the Billionaires' Kids to Fight Trump's Iran War
Send the Billionaires' Kids to Fight Trump's Iran War
Have you noticed the people most excited about bombing Iran are almost never sending their own kids?
Thom Hartmann · 1,072 views
The Hoop Has More Than Two Points: A Compassionate Critique of Pat McCabe's Sacred Gender Essentialism
The Hoop Has More Than Two Points: A Compassionate Critique of Pat McCabe's Sacred Gender Essentialism
Pat McCabe asks the right question about masculine and feminine - then answers it by building a more beautiful cage. Sapolsky, Eisler, and Yoruba cosmology suggest the Hoop of Life has...
Stuart Parkinson · 124 views
Wes Jackson: a Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming
Wes Jackson: a Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming
​Jackson was ahead of his time in seeing not only problems in agriculture but what he called the problem of agriculture, the millennia of soil erosion and soil degradation caused by...
Robert Jensen · 2,255 views
A Revolutionary Intercommunal Mutualist Critique of Colin Jenkin's Black Panther Party “Blueprint” Frame
A Revolutionary Intercommunal Mutualist Critique of Colin Jenkin's Black Panther Party “Blueprint” Frame
An addendum to "An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should be Duplicated" by Colin Jenkins (2014), posted by Films For Action
United Panther Party – U.S. · 813 views
Trump's ICE Goons Are Targeting Hard Workers, Our Friends, Neighbors, and Families—Not the 'Worst of the Worst'
Trump's ICE Goons Are Targeting Hard Workers, Our Friends, Neighbors, and Families—Not the 'Worst of the Worst'
Showing that only 14% of 400,000 people arrested by federal agents have violent criminal records, leaked figures from the Department of Homeland Security have not received the news...
Robert Reich · 2,405 views
Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?
Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
Thom Hartmann · 3,311 views
Another Murder in Minneapolis
Another Murder in Minneapolis
Trump's domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.
Robert Reich · 1,350 views
Putting a Stop to Trump's Gestapo Begins With You
Putting a Stop to Trump's Gestapo Begins With You
Let’s be clear. The problem is not the protesters. It’s the armed thugs who are shooting and murdering them.
Robert Reich · 1,010 views
Trump Declares War on Everyone
Trump Declares War on Everyone
Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it elsewhere: to display his own strength.
Robert Reich · 763 views
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
​Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Martin Burns · 933 views
Emergency Declaration: We Condemn the Imperialist Attack by the U.S. Against Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Maduro
Emergency Declaration: We Condemn the Imperialist Attack by the U.S. Against Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Maduro
The CPR-FI categorically and vehemently condemns the military attack perpetrated by the United States against Venezuela. This is direct, deliberate, and criminal imperialist aggression...
Current for Permanent Revolution - Fourth International (CPR-FI) · 498 views
10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026
10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026
Trump, his sycophants, and the billionaires behind him know that with the coming midterm elections, 2026 could be their last unconstrained chance to suppress democracy and siphon off...
Robert Reich · 1,641 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 · 2,021 views
What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America
What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America
Christmas, once a time to gather, reflect, and renew our obligations to one another, and the social rituals that once cultivated empathy and reinforced civic responsibility, have been...
Martina Moneke · 1,894 views
Can a New 'New Deal' Wipe Out Corporate Control of the Democratic Party?
Can a New 'New Deal' Wipe Out Corporate Control of the Democratic Party?
The exploding popularity of progressive politicians and the policies they embrace is not an anomaly. It's a signpost.
Thom Hartmann · 2,166 views
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
Robert Reich · 616 views
The Dark Side of Gratitude: When Thankfulness Becomes a Tool of Control
The Dark Side of Gratitude: When Thankfulness Becomes a Tool of Control
​Gratitude is celebrated as a virtue, but coerced thankfulness can reinforce inequality, stifle emotions, and keep us complacent.
Martina Moneke · 687 views
Trump 2.0 Exposed the Rot at the Top; Now We Must Work to Fix It
Trump 2.0 Exposed the Rot at the Top; Now We Must Work to Fix It
​Playing the long game requires that the rest of us learn from this revolting era—learn why the wealthy and powerful must be constrained, and learn how to constrain them.
Robert Reich · 358 views
The Happiness Trap: Cultivating Contentment and Wonder as a Radical Path Forward
The Happiness Trap: Cultivating Contentment and Wonder as a Radical Path Forward
Forget chasing fleeting joy. The pursuit of happiness can leave us isolated, but cultivating contentment and wonder builds resilience, deepens connection, and makes life more enduring.
Martina Moneke · 768 views
Trump's Anti-Immigrant Violence Is a Message for the Rest of Us
Trump's Anti-Immigrant Violence Is a Message for the Rest of Us
​This is how it always starts, this process of getting citizens used to the government using violence that will one day be turned against them.
Thom Hartmann · 383 views
The Travesty of the Nobel Peace Prize
The Travesty of the Nobel Peace Prize
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has once again gone to someone whose moral record stands at sharp odds with the spirit of peace itself—someone who has either openly justified or quietly...
Partha Banerjee · 799 views
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and win the release of Kilmar...
Thom Hartmann · 837 views
Trump's Neofascism Is Here Now. Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Resist
Trump's Neofascism Is Here Now. Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Resist
America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting
Robert Reich · 4,151 views
Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?
Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?
Fossil fuel executives have funded a massive, 50-year-long campaign to lie to the American people, cloud the science, and buy off Republican politicians. Untold millions will die and...
Thom Hartmann · 474 views
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October.
Martin Winiecki · 1,535 views
Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote
Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote
In the Bible’s first semi-mythic story of what we now call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abraham dies decades after he has endangered the lives of his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow · 1,003 views
To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%
To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%
Wealthy people in America screamed and yelled when FDR said he would do it, claiming a hike from 25% to 90% would crash the economy, but instead that top tax rate kicked off the first...
Thom Hartmann · 1,503 views
Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine
Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine
"Amid all this insanity, we are deeply moved by and thankful for all Israelis and Palestinians who remain committed to nonviolence, even now that another violent chapter is opened. True...
Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki · 7,973 views
Voting, a Patriotic Duty
Voting, a Patriotic Duty
I am a black woman in America. I am a woke black woman who has been woke before woke was cool. I also love America.
Valerie Elverton-Dixon · 2,169 views
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 · 4,549 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 · 162 views
Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture? ❧ Current Affairs - filed 25 July 2021
Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture? ❧ Current Affairs - filed 25 July 2021
A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written...
Bertrand Cooper · 151 views
'A Failure of Our System': Inside a Damning Take on the Great Recession | Wed 5 Aug 2020
'A Failure of Our System': Inside a Damning Take on the Great Recession | Wed 5 Aug 2020
The Con is a comprehensive docuseries about how corruption and greed led to bankruptcy, homelessness and suicide in 2008
Adrian Horton · 126 views
The Invention of Whiteness: the Long History of a Dangerous Idea
The Invention of Whiteness: the Long History of a Dangerous Idea
Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world
Robert P Baird · 930 views
The Doomer Mentality Dooms Us to Failure
The Doomer Mentality Dooms Us to Failure
Anyone who is honest about the present state of affairs on this planet knows that things are very bad.
Max Wilbert · 3,894 views
Short but Sweet
Short but Sweet
Six award-winning shorts you definitely must watch
Globalshortspr · 370 views
6 Reasons so Many Spiritual People Have Been Fooled by Qanon
6 Reasons so Many Spiritual People Have Been Fooled by Qanon
At a time when paramilitary units snatch nonviolent protesters from the streets of big American cities and when even Fox News has finally begun to apply scrutiny on the occupant of the...
Martin Winiecki · 155,569 views
Degrowth and the Emerging Mosaic of Alternatives
Degrowth and the Emerging Mosaic of Alternatives
After decades on the defensive, the left has once again started to embrace positive visions of the future.
Corinna Burkhart, Nina Treu, and Matthias Schmelzer · 4,962 views
International Study Finds Consensual Nonmonogamy Can Be ‘Healthy’ Relationship Option - Media Relations
International Study Finds Consensual Nonmonogamy Can Be ‘Healthy’ Relationship Option - Media Relations
A new international study has found no evidence that consensual nonmonogamy (CNM) impacts life satisfaction or relationship quality with the primary partners in a romantically involved...
Department of Communications and Public Affairs, Western University · 79 views
Yes, the Looting Must Stop
Yes, the Looting Must Stop
Looting is the word of the day, on the lips of every newscaster, the president, and elected officials across the country.  And, indeed, looting is a major problem in America.
Thom Hartmann · 3,227 views
Believe in Yourself and You Will Make This World a Better Place
Believe in Yourself and You Will Make This World a Better Place
The more people I meet, the more I’m fascinated by the human being. It is exciting to hear people’s stories, their dreams, their problems and their concerns. You realize how amazingly...
Andrea María Portal Ruiz · 118 views
'The Condor and the Eagle' Takes Flight
'The Condor and the Eagle' Takes Flight
From the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the oil fields of Texas, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, The Condor & the Eagle tells the story of the collective struggle of the Indigenous peoples...
Linda Etchart · 1,879 views
Why We Cling to Conspiracies in Times of Crisis
Why We Cling to Conspiracies in Times of Crisis
They say anxiety is us weaving conspiracy theories about ourselves. But what if those feelings are already there, and we are actually telling stories to support them? We weave stories...
Justice Bartlett · 6,969 views
Why the Neoliberals Won’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste
Why the Neoliberals Won’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste
AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP MIROWSKI - Many observers expected that the 2008 financial crisis would mark the end of neoliberalism. Instead, we saw a wave of privatization and sharp cuts in...
Alex Doherty · 1,100 views
How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic
How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic
As COVID-19 spreads, people are showing a growing interest in permaculture principles and techniques to heal their lives, communities and the planet.
Marina Martinez · 3,301 views
New Study: Economic Growth Is Incompatible With Biodiversity Conservation
New Study: Economic Growth Is Incompatible With Biodiversity Conservation
A study involving more than 20 specialists in conservation ecology and ecological economics highlights the contradiction between economic growth and biodiversity conservation. Adopting...
Robert Orzanna · 2,060 views
Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
I've struggled to make sense of what is going on. My suspicious mind wandered around restlessly, examining all theories and possible explanations, yet I must admit: I don’t know what is...
Martin Winiecki · 8,391 views
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
Democracy is fragile. If just one foundation is missing, the ropes of democracy can stretch, weaken, and break.
UBI.Earth · 1,625 views
The Centrist Delusion: 'Middle Ground' Politics Aren't Moderate, They're Dangerous
The Centrist Delusion: 'Middle Ground' Politics Aren't Moderate, They're Dangerous
In a world of competing narratives serving competing interests, there’s always a temptation to gravitate to the political centre ground, the would-be midpoint between two apparent...
Raoul Martinez · 735 views
Freedom and the Market
Freedom and the Market
When freedoms clash, some must take priority over others. In the economy, the mechanism that determines which freedoms are prioritised is the property rights system. Property rights...
Raoul Martinez · 1,131 views
Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival
Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival
The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good.
David Korten · 910 views
It's Not Bernie but the So-Called 'Moderates' That the Democratic Establishment Should Be Freaking Out About
It's Not Bernie but the So-Called 'Moderates' That the Democratic Establishment Should Be Freaking Out About
The best way for Democrats to defeat Trump's fake anti-establishment populism is with the real thing, coupled with an agenda of systemic reform. This is what Bernie Sanders offers.
Robert Reich · 1,537 views
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
Attention is like a spotlight—whatever it shines on becomes brighter in the mind. This knowledge can help us build compassion, says Paul Gilbert.
Paul Gilbert · 2,101 views
America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy
America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy
Divide-and-conquer allows the oligarchy free rein. It makes the rest of us puppets, fighting each other on a made-up stage.
Robert Reich · 3,903 views
The Vision of Wellbeing Economies
The Vision of Wellbeing Economies
The concept of Wellbeing Economies (WE) does not attempt to explain the world through a central foundational economic model, nor does it recommend a particular path for achieving its...
Martin Oetting · 1,597 views
Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes
Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes
“There’s another word for lesser evilism. It’s called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, it’s a rational position. But you don’t stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it...
Noam Chomsky and Robert Scheer and Natasha Hakimi Zapata · 6,548 views
"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 · 12,739 views
The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy
The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy
Sanders believes that as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs.
Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha · 951 views
How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate
How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate
I made my way from the dark side to the light. And I hope it wasn’t too late.
Martin Oetting · 6,336 views
We Are All Indigenous
We Are All Indigenous
“All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand...
Robert Koehler · 2,776 views
5 Things I Learned the Hard Way About Raising Goats
5 Things I Learned the Hard Way About Raising Goats
Sex-crazed and trouble-prone, there's never a dull moment with goats around.
Brian Barth · 272 views
Impact Toolkit Journey: the Beginning
Impact Toolkit Journey: the Beginning
Today, thousands of people use video to address social or environmental issues. From Indonesian group Paradoc addressing the disastrous effects of industrial pollution in a village...
Egbert · 217 views
Public Ownership Is Back and This Is How We Do It
Public Ownership Is Back and This Is How We Do It
Jack Harmsworth from We Own It makes the case for why the UK must learn from its European neighbours and take back control of privatised industries.
Jack Harmsworth · 1,354 views
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 · 1,494 views
Is 5G Worth the Risks?
Is 5G Worth the Risks?
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
Iishana Artra, PhD · 1,901 views
21 Examples of NVC Consciousness (The Spirit of Nonviolent Communication)
21 Examples of NVC Consciousness (The Spirit of Nonviolent Communication)
Our way of being — the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction — is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of...
Bob Wentworth · 13,362 views
Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is
Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is
Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.
Sarah Gertler · 4,970 views
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
The world is facing a mass extinction of species.  All species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods (insects and arachnids), fish, crustaceans, corals and other...
Earth Day Network · 1,526 views
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
Douglas Rushkoff's just released book "Team Human" is a passionately argued manifesto "for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age." Released this week, the manifesto's 100 points...
Courtney Pankrat · 1,357 views
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Women’s March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow · 1,215 views
King's Vision Is Still Defiant
King's Vision Is Still Defiant
He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war
Robert C. Koehler · 1,247 views
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page of what appeared to be the Washington Post had people stopping in their tracks...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert · 1,242 views
From Me to We. A World-Changing Resolution for the New Year
From Me to We. A World-Changing Resolution for the New Year
In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.
David Korten · 976 views
Towards a Third Opinion on Climate Change – in High Need of a Holistic View
Towards a Third Opinion on Climate Change – in High Need of a Holistic View
There used to be a time when climate change was a topic like any other, one that you could have discussions about. This time is long gone and so are the discussions. They all now come...
Martina Hillbrand · 327 views
Degrowth Is the Radical Post-Brexit Future the UK Needs
Degrowth Is the Radical Post-Brexit Future the UK Needs
As the Brexit negotiations wrap up and Theresa May’s deal is lambasted by Remainers and Leavers alike, it’s still far from clear what the future holds for the United Kingdom. On March 29...
Joe Herbert, Newcastle University · 1,993 views
80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?
80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?
"The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not...
Martin Winiecki · 1,534 views
US Government Admits It's Making Fake Social Media Accounts to Spread Propaganda in Cuba
US Government Admits It's Making Fake Social Media Accounts to Spread Propaganda in Cuba
The United States has repeatedly accused the Russian and Iranian governments of using social media to spread “disinformation” and foment chaos. Under US government pressure, Big Tech...
Ben Norton · 6,283 views
Here's Why You Should Think Twice about Killing Spiders in Your Home
Here's Why You Should Think Twice about Killing Spiders in Your Home
I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home.
Matt Bertone · 20,971 views
Unlearning Together: A Quest for Those Who No Longer Want to Suppress Their Experience of the Essential
Unlearning Together: A Quest for Those Who No Longer Want to Suppress Their Experience of the Essential
Movement, perception, thinking, effortless achievement and healing are inherent to life—they happen by themselves. When we observe children learning to walk or speak, ecosystems...
Martin Winiecki · 5,392 views
Bulldoze the Business School
Bulldoze the Business School
Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building...
Martin Parker · 3,994 views
Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?
Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?
In March, Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, cancelled his speaking engagements at U.S. universities, saying he was deterred by “antifa,” a loose international network of...
Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin · 9,302 views
Five Ways to Transform Our Economies
Five Ways to Transform Our Economies
We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.
Sam Cossar-Gilbert · 3,704 views
Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult
Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult
In late 2017, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issued a dramatic “warning to humanity” over biodiversity loss due to overconsumption of resources. They agreed that if we...
Martin Winiecki · 37,865 views
Economic Democracy: An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable
Economic Democracy: An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable
This paper by David Schweickart, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System...
David Schweickart · 5,249 views
How can we create a society which will encourage goodness?
How can we create a society which will encourage goodness?
To the intellectuals, ''goodness'' is a terrible word, and they generally want to avoid it, but now it is becoming the fashion even among the intellectuals to use that word. And is there...
J. Krishnamurti · 438 views
The Promised Land Is Still Not Here
The Promised Land Is Still Not Here
Fifty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, the Left struggles to speak with the kind of moral clarity King exemplified — but that shouldn't stop us from trying.
Robert Greene II · 9,069 views
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...
Thom Hartmann · 39,562 views
Economic System Reform: Saving The Planet; Salvaging The Human Prospect
Economic System Reform: Saving The Planet; Salvaging The Human Prospect
Economic systems include elements of design. Economic systems are not the progeny of happenstance, nor are they beyond our powers, like the sun and moon and stars above. And based on how...
Robert Snefjella · 311 views
Why Reconciliation and Redemption Are Central to Countering White Supremacy
Why Reconciliation and Redemption Are Central to Countering White Supremacy
It’s been a roller coaster year for Sammy Rangel, the executive director of Life After Hate — a non-profit organization that encourages people to leave violent extremist groups by...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert · 2,626 views
ALTERING YOUR BRAIN WAVES: THE SECRET TO PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
ALTERING YOUR BRAIN WAVES: THE SECRET TO PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
The short end of the stick is that all inner change or personal transformation happens at a deeper level of consciousness. No matter how brilliant our thoughts and ideas are, they are...
Gilbert Ross · 363 views
Are You Struggling to Make Sense of the World?
Are You Struggling to Make Sense of the World?
Three steps to help you see the truth and get back on track.
Gilbert Ross · 2,882 views
The Design Flaw at the Core of Humanity's Malaise
The Design Flaw at the Core of Humanity's Malaise
Recognizing the design flaws in our default programming is the first step to envisioning the world we know is possible.
Judith Schwartz · 5,341 views
Doomsday on Screen: How Hollywood & the Pentagon Combine to Sell New ‘Axis of Evil’
Doomsday on Screen: How Hollywood & the Pentagon Combine to Sell New ‘Axis of Evil’
America’s greatest enemies have been lined up for the latest add-on to Grand Theft Auto Online – perpetuating the old trope of an imminent global threat that only the US can...
RT · 172 views
'War on Terror' Has Cost US Taxpayers $250 Million Every Day for 16 Years
'War on Terror' Has Cost US Taxpayers $250 Million Every Day for 16 Years
The 'War on Terror' has cost US taxpayers at least $1.46 trillion since September 11, 2001, the Department of Defense's cost of war report has revealed. The 74-page DoD dossier was...
RT · 209 views
How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor
How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor
While teaching U.S. history at a public charter high school in the District, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it...
Courtland Milloy · 21,652 views
Defend the Sacred Manifesto
Defend the Sacred Manifesto
A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifesto laying out the possible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred...
Martin Winiecki · 11,700 views
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk · 42,807 views
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left can't allow itself to be consumed by debates about antifa. We need a proactive program and patient organizing.
Robert Greene II · 4,477 views
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Using humor and irony to undermine white supremacy dates back to the days of the Third Reich, from jokes and cartoons employed by Norwegians against the Nazi occupation to “The Great...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert · 17,592 views
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?
The Southern Poverty Law Center · 2,236 views
The Future of Activism
The Future of Activism
The times certainly are a-changing.
Juan Manuel and Martin Kirk · 1,397 views
Letter From a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Letter From a Birmingham Jail (1963)
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. · 4,314 views
Capitalism's Excesses Belong in the Dustbin of History. What's Next Is up to Us
Capitalism's Excesses Belong in the Dustbin of History. What's Next Is up to Us
It’s time to dethrone capitalism’s single-minded directive and replace it with a more balanced logic, laying the foundations for a better, more equitable world
Martin Kirk · 25,648 views
Neoliberalism Has Conned Us Into Fighting Climate Change as Individuals
Neoliberalism Has Conned Us Into Fighting Climate Change as Individuals
The freedom of these corporations to pollute – and the fixation on a feeble lifestyle response – is no accident. It is the result of an ideological war, waged over the last forty years...
Martin Lukacs · 31,805 views
Are You Ready to Consider That Capitalism Is the Real Problem?
Are You Ready to Consider That Capitalism Is the Real Problem?
Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society.
Dr. Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk · 9,854 views
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Curing unemployment is a growth market for psychologists. Job Centres are becoming medical centres, claimants are becoming patients, and unemployment is being redefined as a...
Felicity Callard and Robert Stearn · 4,300 views
How a Global Network of Fearless Cities Is Making Racist Colonial Nation States Obsolete
How a Global Network of Fearless Cities Is Making Racist Colonial Nation States Obsolete
Introducing a Global Network of Municipalist Cities
Richard D. Bartlett · 5,493 views
Wonder Women Have Been Smashing the Patriarchy Since Classical Times
Wonder Women Have Been Smashing the Patriarchy Since Classical Times
Wonder Woman is an unsettling superhero. More so than her male counterparts, she resists easy classification: she’s neither an alien or a billionaire – nor has she been exposed to some...
Roberta Magnani · 5,052 views
Dangers of Eroding Unstructured Child Play
Dangers of Eroding Unstructured Child Play
Let the children play.
Gemariah Nephertiti · 204 views
Fear Is One of the Greatest Problems in Life
Fear Is One of the Greatest Problems in Life
Before we go any further I would like to ask you what is your fundamental, lasting interest in life? Putting all oblique answers aside and dealing with this question directly and...
J. Krishnamurti · 2,397 views
What Do You Think It Means to Be Utterly and Totally Free?
What Do You Think It Means to Be Utterly and Totally Free?
None of the agonies of suppression, nor the brutal discipline of conforming to a pattern has led to truth. To come upon truth the mind must be completely free, without a spot of distortion.
J. Krishnamurti · 9,969 views
Relationships Based on Images Can Never Bring Lasting Peace, Yet Our Whole Society Is Built on Images
Relationships Based on Images Can Never Bring Lasting Peace, Yet Our Whole Society Is Built on Images
Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have...
J. Krishnamurti · 12,944 views
What Does It Take for Activists to Get Your Attention?
What Does It Take for Activists to Get Your Attention?
For major protests today, it is standard to have a media strategy. For example, there can be individuals assigned to media liaison. The location and timing of an action can be chosen...
Brian Martin · 2,118 views
NYT Mocks Skepticism on Syria-Sarin Claims
NYT Mocks Skepticism on Syria-Sarin Claims
The New York Times and other major media have ruled out any further skepticism toward the U.S. government’s claim that Syrian President Assad dropped a sarin bomb on a town in Idlib...
Robert Parry · 806 views
War and Peace and War: The Untold Story of the Colombian Civil War and the Potential for Genuine Peace
War and Peace and War: The Untold Story of the Colombian Civil War and the Potential for Genuine Peace
Bogota, Colombia – At the end of last year, the world celebrated what seemed to be the end one of history's longest standing internal wars. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who...
Martin Winiecki · 2,591 views
5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals
5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals
We’re currently touring through the US, meeting with activists: from urban neighbourhood organisers, to black bloc anarchists, back-to-the-land communalists, and progressive...
Richard D. Bartlett · 26,970 views
The Mental Limits of War
The Mental Limits of War
A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria.
Robert C. Koehler · 4,070 views
21 Ways to “Give Good No”
21 Ways to “Give Good No”
Saying “no” can be really hard. But Christine Carter has a three-step plan to get there.
Christine Carter · 21,736 views
"It's Complicated" - The Great False Argument for War
"It's Complicated" - The Great False Argument for War
It’s an argument I’ve seen time and again, as a justification for American military interventionism.  It appears in the news, and it is parroted in conversations.  Sometimes it is...
Daniel Martin · 4,308 views
Five Maps That Will Change How You See the World
Five Maps That Will Change How You See the World
Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so. Why?...
Donald Houston, University of Portsmouth · 15,489 views
A Robot Lawyer Is Assisting With Refugee Applications
A Robot Lawyer Is Assisting With Refugee Applications
When Joshua Browder developed the chatbot for DoNotPay, the original idea was just to help people out with their traffic ticket woes. DoNotPay has since successfully overturned more than...
Dom Galeon and Kelsey Marquart · 2,737 views
Petition - Earth's Statute Law - Sign and Share
Petition - Earth's Statute Law - Sign and Share
Important Information regarding a proposed law reform and what it means to you.
Earth Statute · 40 views
I Don’t Think I was Born White. I Think White Children are Manufactured.
I Don’t Think I was Born White. I Think White Children are Manufactured.
This is Part One of a Series on Whiteness. (Part Two) “Politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea. The presence of the Negro puts our democracy to the proof...
Quinn Norton · 3,275 views
All Change or No Change?
All Change or No Change?
This is a story of power, but perhaps not the traditional kind. The kinds of power we are interested in are the deep currents.... the cultural forces that shape all of our lives at the...
Martin Kirk, Jason Hickel and Joe Brewer · 2,980 views
Something Better to Offer Trump Voters Tired of Waiting for Their Turn
Something Better to Offer Trump Voters Tired of Waiting for Their Turn
A world free of extremes of wealth and poverty in which no one needs to stand in line for a chance at a secure and fulfilling life.
David Korten · 2,292 views
The 15 Warnings Signs of Impending Tyranny
The 15 Warnings Signs of Impending Tyranny
As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically: 1.  Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a
Robert Reich · 5,974 views
Watch 10 Inspiring Animated Shorts Celebrating Indigenous Culture
Watch 10 Inspiring Animated Shorts Celebrating Indigenous Culture
With films like Pocahontas, Apocalypto, Peter Pan and The Green Inferno, it's safe to say that Hollywood has a deplorable track record when it comes to its portrayal of Indigenous...
John Ahni Schertow · 22,514 views
Living Through an Age of Unraveling
Living Through an Age of Unraveling
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
Martin Winiecki · 22,984 views
Sexism A and Sexism B
Sexism A and Sexism B
Being a feminist comedian and activist, I can say with absolute certainty that a lot of people hate me. There are times when the internet can feel like a burst drain spewing vitriol of...
Kate Smurthwaite · 8,432 views
Trump Played to Anger, but We Don't Have to Fall for Divide and Conquer
Trump Played to Anger, but We Don't Have to Fall for Divide and Conquer
We’ve been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.
David Korten · 2,896 views
2016: Year of the Serpent
2016: Year of the Serpent
We take almost all of the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious. – W. G. Sebald Last weekend, I was sitting in a packed...
Paul Kingsnorth · 11,441 views
How to Expose Trump's Dastardly Bait-And-Switch
How to Expose Trump's Dastardly Bait-And-Switch
Trump is not an economic populist, he’s just playing one on TV.
Robert Borosage · 10,765 views
The Orwellian War on Skepticism
The Orwellian War on Skepticism
Official Washington’s rush into an Orwellian future is well underway as political and media bigwigs move to silence Internet voices of independence and dissent, reports Robert Parry.
Robert Parry · 7,344 views
The Washington Post's 'Fake News' Guilt
The Washington Post's 'Fake News' Guilt
The "fake news" theme has captivated The Washington Post and the mainstream U.S. media so much that it is stooping to McCarthyistic smears against news outlets that don’t toe the State...
Robert Parry · 3,528 views
A Message of Solidarity from Tamera Peace Research Center to Standing Rock
A Message of Solidarity from Tamera Peace Research Center to Standing Rock
In the name of humaneness, we express our gratitude to the courageous water and land protectors at Standing Rock. This camp of Sioux and many other First Nation people, accompanied by...
Martin Winiecki · 25,936 views
After Brexit and Trump: Don't Demonise; Localise!
After Brexit and Trump: Don't Demonise; Localise!
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era. But the real solutions lie...
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Rupert Read · 15,683 views
A Carbon Neutral Alternative to Flight
A Carbon Neutral Alternative to Flight
The first sailboat ferry company in the world
VoyageVert · 329 views
Whose Fake News Gets a Pass? NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
Whose Fake News Gets a Pass? NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls “fake news,” but the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news”
Robert Parry · 4,594 views
A New Documentary Explores the Devastating Effects of Drone Warfare on Victims and Whistleblowers
A New Documentary Explores the Devastating Effects of Drone Warfare on Victims and Whistleblowers
On the night of February 21, 2010, a group of families driving a convoy of vehicles through the valleys of Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan came into the sights of a Predator drone crew...
Murtaza Hussain · 3,106 views
We Need a Revolution: Overcoming Fascism with a Movement of Love
We Need a Revolution: Overcoming Fascism with a Movement of Love
On November 9th, 1938 more than 1000 synagogues and 7000 Jewish businesses were burning all over Germany, set ablaze by the Nazis. Going down in history as “Kristallnacht” or the “Night...
Martin Winiecki · 61,472 views
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear
If we want to escape from the wetiko disease of our current capitalist culture, we need a credible concept for a new nonviolent global society and for transforming the old matrix of fear...
Martin Winiecki · 84,998 views
The UK's Investigatory Powers Bill Is About to Become Law - Here's Why That Should Terrify Us
The UK's Investigatory Powers Bill Is About to Become Law - Here's Why That Should Terrify Us
The evidence that these powers are all needed is thin indeed. And the cost to all of our privacy is huge.
Julian Huppert · 5,412 views
Toxic Masculinity: What Changed?
Toxic Masculinity: What Changed?
Pride in trivialising sexual violence needs to stop, now, writes Kate Smurthwaite
Kate Smurthwaite · 314 views
Saving the Animals Is Important, and Saving the Africans Is Important Too!
Saving the Animals Is Important, and Saving the Africans Is Important Too!
Recently, there has been heightened interest in the welfare of African wildlife. Many charities and major newspapers like the Guardian and
Gemariah Nephertiti · 949 views
Celtic management must stand with fans against FIFA & UEFA hypocrisy
Celtic management must stand with fans against FIFA & UEFA hypocrisy
Football Against Apartheid · 211 views
The Free State of Jones :: A rich man's war and a poor man's fight
The Free State of Jones :: A rich man's war and a poor man's fight
It's not the best movie in terms of story-telling, but as an addition to the ever growing number of Civil War movies it's an excellent one and a very necessary one. Not a box office...
William Peynsaert · 232 views
Freedom Song - What Is Reality?
Freedom Song - What Is Reality?
Culture is a matter of the heart. The heart needs time and space to shape the places that it meets. Who are we without this? Where do we exist emotionally? These photos were...
Rolf Versteegh Fine-Art Photography/Film/Video · 135 views
30 Days of White Privilege
30 Days of White Privilege
The straw that broke the camel’s back was a New York Times comment section. “There is no such thing as white privilege. It’s something the liberal media created. Black people and white...
Jonah Smith-Bartlett · 5,809 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 · 21,606 views
Jane Sanders: Why Bernie Voters Shouldn't Get Over It
Jane Sanders: Why Bernie Voters Shouldn't Get Over It
Bernie's wife discusses her proudest and most difficult campaign moments, the DNC email leak and the future of his revolution
Tessa Stuart · 119,253 views
Corbyn Lives to Fight Another Day
Corbyn Lives to Fight Another Day
Corbyn has survived the latest challenge to his leadership. Paul Mason on why they want to beat him — and how he can win.
Ronan Burtenshaw with Paul Mason · 3,734 views
Policing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
Policing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
It's time to start imagining a society that isn't dominated by police
José Martín · 8,806 views
Five Ways to Practise Anti-Racist Solidarity in Brexit Britain
Five Ways to Practise Anti-Racist Solidarity in Brexit Britain
A lot of people have woken up to the uncomfortable reality that racism exists in Britain. So what can you do about it?
Wretched of the Earth · 401 views
Post-Brexit Visions of The Possible: It's Time to Imagine a New European Community
Post-Brexit Visions of The Possible: It's Time to Imagine a New European Community
We live in the beginning phase of a global revolution which will turn societal conditions upside down. We cannot stop this transformation, but we can influence where it will go. Will the...
Martin Winiecki · 35,760 views
The growthocene: Thinking through what degrowth is criticising
The growthocene: Thinking through what degrowth is criticising
Let’s be clear what kind of growth degrowth needs to challenge: the growth of biophysical throughput, continuous capital accumulation and productivism, as well as mindless attempts of...
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson · 455 views
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...
April M. Short · 5,039 views
7 Traits of People Who Are Great at Relationships
7 Traits of People Who Are Great at Relationships
Relating to your partner, spouse or significant other can be challenging. Here's what the people who make it work know that you may not.
Starre Vartan · 26,719 views
Turning the Problem Around: Mental Health in a Sick Society
Turning the Problem Around: Mental Health in a Sick Society
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ― Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein The rise of people who are diagnosed with...
Martijn Schirp · 25,844 views
Men and Feminism: The Smurthwaite Deal
Men and Feminism: The Smurthwaite Deal
I’m bored of hearing that ‘feminism needs to do more to attract men’. If only feminists could succeed by asking men nicely to allow us to gather up the scattered remains of our basic...
Kate Smurthwaite · 184 views
7 Inspiring Quotes by Aldo Leopold
7 Inspiring Quotes by Aldo Leopold
Let's tip our hats to the ecologist who defined wilderness.
Starre Vartan · 4,587 views
The Beautifully Lived Life of Jo Cox
The Beautifully Lived Life of Jo Cox
A tribute to my friend – who was driven by an unambiguous desire to make life better for those battered and beaten and punished by this world.
Martin Kirk · 12,646 views
Why Global Capital Fears 'Brexit'
Why Global Capital Fears 'Brexit'
While the leadership of the ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ camps portray their positions as fundamentally different, neither side is challenging the stranglehold of corporations that run the...
Helena Norberg-Hodge & Rupert Read and Thomas Wallgren · 16,237 views
We Can Only Contemplate Leaving the EU Because Its Miracles Have Become Banal
We Can Only Contemplate Leaving the EU Because Its Miracles Have Become Banal
The EU is an astonishing institution, unique in human history, imperfect because of the scale of its ambition. Let's not tear it down.
Gilbert Ramsay · 1,949 views
Are We Witnessing 'Straightsplaining' of the Orlando Massacre?
Are We Witnessing 'Straightsplaining' of the Orlando Massacre?
David Braniff-Herbert · 107,991 views
Another Neocon Endorses Clinton, Calling Her "2016's Real Conservative" and "The Candidate of the Status Quo"
Another Neocon Endorses Clinton, Calling Her "2016's Real Conservative" and "The Candidate of the Status Quo"
Wall Street has thrown its weight behind Hillary Clinton. Some of the biggest names in the U.S. right-wing establishment have also
Ben Norton · 12,510 views
US a Shining Example Unto ISIS
US a Shining Example Unto ISIS
The US illustrates to ISIS, and the world, that the path to the seat of regional and then global power is genocide, land-theft, mass enslavement, never paying reparations, then wielding...
Robert Barsocchini · 739 views
The Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany's Assault on the IMF
The Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany's Assault on the IMF
Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek “leftwing” government into a pawn of Germany’s banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to...
Paul Craig Roberts · 5,922 views
Drought Be Damned: Has the 20th-Century Promise of America’s Dams Run Its Course?
Drought Be Damned: Has the 20th-Century Promise of America’s Dams Run Its Course?
The water crisis in the West has renewed debate about the effectiveness of major dams, with some pushing for the enormous Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to be decommissioned.
Abrahm Lustgarten · 4,359 views
The Faux Insurgency of the Climate Change Deniers and the Need for Closure
The Faux Insurgency of the Climate Change Deniers and the Need for Closure
Climate change deniers like to style themselves as latter-day Copernicuses and Galileos, lone visionaries bucking the established wisdom of the ages embodied back then in the teachings...
Kurt Cobb · 3,039 views
How to Bootstrap a Bossless Organization in 3 Easy Steps
How to Bootstrap a Bossless Organization in 3 Easy Steps
My first impression at OuiShare Fest was a weird utopian blockchain mania: a poorly understood but massively hyped technology that will somehow fix all our social, political, and...
Richard D. Bartlett · 4,361 views
Why Lane Kenworthy Thinks The Next System Should Be... Social Democracy
Why Lane Kenworthy Thinks The Next System Should Be... Social Democracy
As part of our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series, Lane Kenworthy delves into a model for Social Democracy that he believes would be beneficial for a next...
Lane Kenworthy · 1,796 views
Damned If You Leave, Damned If You Remain: What to Do in the Absence of a 'Left Option'?
Damned If You Leave, Damned If You Remain: What to Do in the Absence of a 'Left Option'?
The 23rd June 2016 is likely to be a miserable day for anyone with an even remotely left-leaning conscience. The weeks before are already overcast with a feeling of inescapable gloom...
Bertie Russell · 5,854 views
How-And Why-To Take Your Life Back From Email
How-And Why-To Take Your Life Back From Email
Regain your time, attention, and energy from the email machine.
Christine Carter · 992 views
8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization
8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization
There is nothing more difficult to plan, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the creator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of...
John Fullerton · 16,551 views
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
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...
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk · 77,339 views
The Coming Democratic Crackup
The Coming Democratic Crackup
Though the mainstream media is focused on Republican divisions, a more important story could be the coming Democratic crackup, as anti-war Democrats resist Hillary Clinton’s pro-war agenda
Robert Parry · 4,860 views
Neocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Neocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Hillary Clinton wants American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world
Robert Parry · 6,561 views
The Hottest Year on Record Signals That Global Warming Is Alive and Well
The Hottest Year on Record Signals That Global Warming Is Alive and Well
The year 2015 has proven to be another year of temperature records. Data released by NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) show that in 2015, the global mean...
Kevin Trenberth · 949 views
Why the Economy Should Stop Growing-And Just Grow Up
Why the Economy Should Stop Growing-And Just Grow Up
“How do we grow the economy?” is an obsolete question. Local initiatives across the world are looking for maturity instead as they rebuild caring, place-based communities and economies.
David Korten · 8,184 views
America's New Dark Ages
America's New Dark Ages
Why has our mainstream culture become so trivial?
Art Van Kraft · 972 views
Americans Agree: It's Corporate Power That's in Our Way
Americans Agree: It's Corporate Power That's in Our Way
There is widespread recognition among politicians and pundits that Americans are sharply divided by party on virtually all of the big questions facing our country. Everyone knows this...
Robert Weissman · 2,608 views
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
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...
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk · 39,583 views
Occupy Activists Launch 'Battle of New York' to Counter Media Bias about Sanders and Clinton
Occupy Activists Launch 'Battle of New York' to Counter Media Bias about Sanders and Clinton
With its huge media campaign, Operation Battle of New York is taking on corporate establishment
Ben Norton · 14,557 views
Time for a Tipping Point: the Power of the Panama Papers
Time for a Tipping Point: the Power of the Panama Papers
“There exists among men, because they are men, a solidarity through which each shares responsibility for every wrong committed in the world, and especially for crimes that are committed...
Megan Northey · 134 views
Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)
Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)
A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
Marty Kaplan · 1,734 views
Why Won’t Sanders Quit The Race? Because He’s Winning.
Why Won’t Sanders Quit The Race? Because He’s Winning.
The patter of establishment calls for Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to end his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has built into a hailstorm.
Robert L. Borosage · 8,923 views
Reasons to Raise Indiana's Minimum Wage in 2016
Reasons to Raise Indiana's Minimum Wage in 2016
Indiana's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. If you do the math, that's $290 a week, or roughly $15,000 a year.  Jessica Fraser, program manager at the Indiana Institute of Working...
Veronica Carter · 124 views
The Thing Sanders, Trump, and Clinton Agree On. It's That Bad.
The Thing Sanders, Trump, and Clinton Agree On. It's That Bad.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is slated for an up-or-down vote in Congress. Proponents say it’s about free trade. But it looks more like corporate colonization.
David Korten · 5,887 views
The Everyday Violence of Modern Culture
The Everyday Violence of Modern Culture
Modern society — industrial civilization — is built on violence.
Max Wilbert · 1,689 views
Why Heathrow 13 Verdict Could Lead to More Radical Climate Activism, Not Less
Why Heathrow 13 Verdict Could Lead to More Radical Climate Activism, Not Less
The so-called “Heathrow 13” Plane Stupid climate activists have been given suspended prison sentences for trespassing on the airport’s runway. The case – and the decision of the judge to...
Graeme Hayes and Brian Doherty · 1,501 views
Reboot Your Life: 20 Mental Barriers You Should Let Go Of
Reboot Your Life: 20 Mental Barriers You Should Let Go Of
You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. It’s just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in...
Gilbert Ross · 104,004 views
My (Apparently) Obligatory Response To 'Formation': In List Form
My (Apparently) Obligatory Response To 'Formation': In List Form
1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé's new song and video. I don't think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person...
Benji Hart · 4,235 views
Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror
Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror
In the Rojava region of Syria, despite the difficulties, people are organizing communes and women’s councils. Syria can seem an endless black hole of misery, but in the northern, largely...
Tony Iltis & Stuart Munckton · 10,009 views
Science Just Figured Out Which Religion's Holy Book Is More Violent
Science Just Figured Out Which Religion's Holy Book Is More Violent
Text Analytics Program Proves Quran Less Violent Than The Bible
Curtis F · 168 views
If There Are No New Farmers, Who Will Grow Our Food?
If There Are No New Farmers, Who Will Grow Our Food?
Programs across the country are trying to make it easier for new farmers to get started and put down roots. Here's why: There's only one farmer under 35 for ever six over 65. By 2030...
Kim Eckart · 1,544 views
It Takes a Movement: A Tale of Two Strategies For Change
It Takes a Movement: A Tale of Two Strategies For Change
In 2008, when then-Senator Barack Obama promised progressive change if elected President, his primary opponent, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, derided him.
Robert Reich · 1,470 views
The Reductive Seduction of Other People's Problems
The Reductive Seduction of Other People's Problems
“If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable.”
Courtney Martin · 3,752 views
At Stake in 2016: Ending the Vicious Cycle of Wealth and Power
At Stake in 2016: Ending the Vicious Cycle of Wealth and Power
What’s at stake this election year? Let me put as directly as I can. America has succumbed to a vicious cycle in which great wealth translates into political power, which generates...
Robert Reich · 1,834 views
Young Black Men Killed by US Police at Highest Rate in Year of 1,134 Deaths
Young Black Men Killed by US Police at Highest Rate in Year of 1,134 Deaths
Final total of people killed by US police officers in 2015 shows rate of death for young black men was five times higher than white men of the same age
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey and Ciara McCarthy · 247 views
Military Intervention in Syria Is the Problem, Not the Solution
Military Intervention in Syria Is the Problem, Not the Solution
From Paris to Beirut, the Islamic State's latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it.
Peter Certo · 2,070 views
Western Ally Saudi Arabia Sentenced a Palestinian Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam
Western Ally Saudi Arabia Sentenced a Palestinian Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam
Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death for apostasy, joining a long list of dissidents facing capital punishment
Ben Norton · 3,664 views
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
Ben Norton · 20,214 views
Breaking The Cycle Of Violence After Paris: The Truth We Must Face
Breaking The Cycle Of Violence After Paris: The Truth We Must Face
Last night - parallel to the Paris attacks, as I found out this morning - I had a special experience. As I walked home through the dark from Tamera's bar to my sleeping place, I heard...
Martin Winiecki · 4,784 views
Terrorism Double Standards: After Paris, Let's Stop Blaming Muslims & Take a Hard Look at Ourselves
Terrorism Double Standards: After Paris, Let's Stop Blaming Muslims & Take a Hard Look at Ourselves
We must mourn all victims. But until we look honestly at the violence we export, nothing will ever change
Ben Norton · 4,935 views
The Vegetables of Truth - How Modern Science Keeps You In Your Place
The Vegetables of Truth - How Modern Science Keeps You In Your Place
This is really just an excuse to show a wonderful film about vegetables. But it is also about how modern science has radically changed in a way that hasn’t been fully understood. How...
Adam Curtis · 2,365 views
New Campaign to Help Bank Workers Blow the Whistle on Corruption and Abuse
New Campaign to Help Bank Workers Blow the Whistle on Corruption and Abuse
Whistleblow Wall Street makes it easier for bank workers to expose harmful and unjust practices
John Sellers and Martin Kirk · 905 views
Civil Liberties Groups Call for Congressional Inquiry Into Assassination Program
Civil Liberties Groups Call for Congressional Inquiry Into Assassination Program
Following The Intercept’s publication of a cache of secret documents on the U.S. military’s drone assassination program, civil rights organizations are calling for an immediate...
Murtaza Hussain · 261 views
Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don't Get It
Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don't Get It
Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs.
Mark Hertsgaard · 7,109 views
6 Reasons Sanders Actually Won the Debate Despite What Pundits Claim
6 Reasons Sanders Actually Won the Debate Despite What Pundits Claim
Bernie Sanders crushed the debates by every measurable indicator except one: pundits’ opinion.
C. Robert Gibson · 1,226 views
Time to Reframe the Old Narratives About Race in America
Time to Reframe the Old Narratives About Race in America
Toxic ideas about people of color can be hard to shake, but looking at those ideas from a different perspective reveals positive truths.
Trabian Shorters · 1,066 views
The Ending Of Sorrow
The Ending Of Sorrow
First of all I would like to remind you if I may, this is not an intellectual entertainment nor some kind of romantic ideological rubbish. We are dealing with our daily life, with our...
J. Krishnamurti · 1,364 views
None of the World's Top Industries Would Be Profitable If They Paid for the Natural Capital They Use
None of the World's Top Industries Would Be Profitable If They Paid for the Natural Capital They Use
The notion of “externalities” has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. For instance, industrial...
David Roberts · 11,825 views
Teach Yourself Filmmaking: 3 Lessons From Self-Taught Pros
Teach Yourself Filmmaking: 3 Lessons From Self-Taught Pros
To be a great filmmaker, you don’t need to go to film school, have access to the latest gear, or have been born a creative genius. The most important ingredients for mastering the craft...
Story & Heart · 1,692 views
How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps
How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps
This article is probably not what you think. Read on to find out more.
Aaron Bleyaert · 6,437 views
Less Work, More Time: A Feminist Perspective on Universal Basic Income
Less Work, More Time: A Feminist Perspective on Universal Basic Income
It’s a cliché of feminist media to bemoan the “time bind” that keeps women tied to the double duties of working and parenting. The solution offered to this problem, however, often boils...
Madeleine Schwartz · 1,375 views
U.S. Doublespeak on Palestine
U.S. Doublespeak on Palestine
As Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable suffering at the hands of Israelis, there are some old bromides that are constantly being hurled at an unsuspecting public by elected U.S...
Robert Fantina · 2,891 views
Compassion, the Antidote
Compassion, the Antidote
Thich Nhat Hanh has published nearly 100 books and is one of the best-known teachers of Zen Buddhism in the world today.
Martin Doblmeier · 20,205 views
Right to Buy, or the Right to Lifelong Debt?
Right to Buy, or the Right to Lifelong Debt?
With news this week that one in seven over 70 year olds are using their pensions to pay off their mortgage debt, the prospect of home ownership has got a whole lot less appealing. The...
Alice Martin · 1,503 views
Ignoring the Cause of Welfare: Not Laziness but Low Wages
Ignoring the Cause of Welfare: Not Laziness but Low Wages
Numerous US media outlets recently uncritically echoed a methodologically flawed report by an anti-immigration organization with ties to white supremacist groups (FAIR.org, 9/4/15)...
Ben Norton · 1,636 views
Zero Refugees: Guess Which Countries Have Taken Not One of the 60 Million Fleeing War
Zero Refugees: Guess Which Countries Have Taken Not One of the 60 Million Fleeing War
The number of people displaced by wars fuelled by the west and its allies has reached a staggering new high.
Ben Norton · 24,978 views
9 Necessities for a Popular Left
9 Necessities for a Popular Left
Does popularity entail populism? What would it mean for the left to be truly popular? Here Jeremy Gilbert offers nine things the left needs to do if progressive ideas are to occupy the...
Jeremy Gilbert · 405 views
Ten Films You Need to Watch About The Reality Of The World's Indigenous Peoples
Ten Films You Need to Watch About The Reality Of The World's Indigenous Peoples
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
John Ahni Schertow · 1,958 views
A 10-Point Programme for 21st Century Democratic Socialism
A 10-Point Programme for 21st Century Democratic Socialism
In response to Jeremy Corbyn's  'Standing to Deliver' plan "for a fairer and more successful Britain," Jeremy Gilbert suggests an additional 10 things to plug some of the holes in...
Jeremy Gilbert · 8,293 views
Why Surprising Numbers of Republicans Vote for Bernie Sanders
Why Surprising Numbers of Republicans Vote for Bernie Sanders
Ann Coulter knows who she wants to be the Democratic nominee for president, and who that person is, well, it may surprise you.   She wants Hillary Clinton to be the nominee, and
Thom Hartmann · 8,535 views
An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders Supporters
An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders Supporters
Dear Bernie Sanders supporters, Shut up and listen for once. When black women interrupt your candidate, don't call them "thugs." And when protesters hijack your hero's microphone to...
C. Robert Gibson · 1,313 views
Cut the Working Week to a Maximum of 20 Hours, Urge Top Economists
Cut the Working Week to a Maximum of 20 Hours, Urge Top Economists
Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank
Heather Stewart · 5,668 views
This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'
This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'
Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened
Paul Kingsnorth · 2,500 views
Yanis Varoufakis Speaks Out for First Time Since Resigning as Greek Finance Minister
Yanis Varoufakis Speaks Out for First Time Since Resigning as Greek Finance Minister
In his first interview since resigning, Greece's former Finance Minister says the Eurogroup is “completely and utterly” controlled by Germany, Greece was “set up” and last week’s...
Harry Lambert · 15,959 views
The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality
The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality
Even though French economist Thomas Piketty has made an air-tight case that we’re heading toward levels of inequality not seen since the days of the nineteenth-century robber barons...
Robert Reich · 361 views
Eight Ways Less Is More - The Art of Strategic Slacking
Eight Ways Less Is More - The Art of Strategic Slacking
You’re busy, “crazy-busy” even, so why would taking more breaks and wandering off for walks during the working day help you become less busy and more successful? Because, when done...
Christine Carter · 7,601 views
US Only Country to Oppose UN Holding Israel Accountable for War Crimes, Yet again
US Only Country to Oppose UN Holding Israel Accountable for War Crimes, Yet again
The US was the only country in the world to oppose a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for war crimes, at the 29th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights...
Ben Norton · 2,824 views
The Cost of Cowardice
The Cost of Cowardice
In February, 2009, then Attorney General Eric Holder, in an address at the Department of Justice to commemorate Black History Month, said we in the United States were “a nation of...
Valerie Elverton Dixon · 1,599 views
How White People Got Made
How White People Got Made
'There’s a perception that whiteness is working for white people. It’s not. Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated.'
Quinn Norton · 44,924 views
Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau · 1,632 views
What Is White Supremacy?
What Is White Supremacy?
White Supremacy is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations, and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of...
Elizabeth Martínez · 29,081 views
End of the Miracle Machines - Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought
End of the Miracle Machines - Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought
A COUPLE OF MILES outside the town of Page, three 775-foot-tall caramel-colored smokestacks tower like sentries on the edge of northern Arizona’s sprawling red sandstone wilderness. At...
Abrahm Lustgarten · 605 views
10 Scholarly Critiques of Capitalism and Imperialism
10 Scholarly Critiques of Capitalism and Imperialism
1. “Capitalism is the accumulation of resources by means of exploitation in the production and sale of commodities for profit. Capitalist exploitation is an unequal exchange wherein...
Glen T. Martin · 9,919 views
If You Learn Anything From This Street Artist Works It's The Vital Importance Of Bees
If You Learn Anything From This Street Artist Works It's The Vital Importance Of Bees
When street artist Louis Masai Michel went on a trip to South Africa to paint endangered animals, he came back a man on a mission.
Brandon Siewert · 3,395 views
10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal
10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal
When you take a moment and look around at the world, things can appear pretty messed up. Take 5 or 10 minutes and watch the 6 o’clock news. Chances are, the entire time, all you are...
Joe Martino · 99,375 views
The Demand to be Safe in a Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow and Fear
The Demand to be Safe in a Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow and Fear
This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you?
J. Krishnamurti · 15,792 views
It’s Official: Recent Election Was Most Disproportionate in UK History
It’s Official: Recent Election Was Most Disproportionate in UK History
We’ve just released our new report on the May
Josiah Mortimer · 522 views
Wanna See What Happens To A 5-Year-Old Girl Who's Already Consumed 1460 Sodas In Her Short Lifetime?
Wanna See What Happens To A 5-Year-Old Girl Who's Already Consumed 1460 Sodas In Her Short Lifetime?
“One, two, shhhh, she’s counting. Ariel runs, tiny legs waddling across pavement, her chubby fingers barely able to grasp her daily Pepsi, she runs. Poison in hand, smile on face...
Jeff Roberts · 748 views
12 Inspired Actions to Outsmart Repressive Situations and Laws
12 Inspired Actions to Outsmart Repressive Situations and Laws
Click here to skip the introduction and go straight to the examples. The Spanish government’s latest round of anti-protest laws are as worrying as they are laughably predictable. On top...
Amador Fernández-Savater & Leónidas Martín · 7,229 views
10 Prominent Advocates of Socialism
10 Prominent Advocates of Socialism
“Socialism” is considered a dirty word in the United States. Being a hard-working, “free market” capitalist is a part of our national mythology. But it wasn’t always this way. The...
Arthur Moore · 13,559 views
Militarizing Ourselves Toward a New Dark Age
Militarizing Ourselves Toward a New Dark Age
“What struck me” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around...
Robert C. Koehler · 3,748 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 · 1,887 views
Neoliberalism Is Not an Institution, But Rather a Paranormal Activity (Completely Normalized and Legally Ratified)
Neoliberalism Is Not an Institution, But Rather a Paranormal Activity (Completely Normalized and Legally Ratified)
Believe you me, neoliberalism is not an institution, but rather a paranormal activity (completely normalized and legally ratified) which operates both in and outside ourselves. This is...
Leónidas Martín · 2,627 views
"Your Kindness Could kill"
"Your Kindness Could kill"
Help the homeless posters are telling the public that beggars are probably crack addicts. Campaigns like these make money by demonising those they exist to help.
Ric Lander and Amie Robertson · 1,881 views
Man Kills Himself Holding 'Tax The 1%' in Front of Capitol-and Nobody Hears About It
Man Kills Himself Holding 'Tax The 1%' in Front of Capitol-and Nobody Hears About It
When 64-year-old Vietnam vet John Constantino burned himself to death on the DC Mall in October of 2013 I couldn’t stop thinking about this man and his act. Who was he? What compelled...
Thirty Three and a Third · 13,925 views
Wealth Vs. Money
Wealth Vs. Money
“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” The words are those of Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, speaking to Edward R. Murrow in 1955, as quoted recently in an...
Robert C. Koehler · 3,546 views
Media hacking
Media hacking
2014 certainly ended up as the
John Borthwick · 372 views
Suicides in Pine Ridge and Culture of fear
Suicides in Pine Ridge and Culture of fear
In the wake of the disturbing Jan. 24 events at the Rapid City hockey game, people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were further stunned by a series of suicides by very young and...
Delphine Red Shirt · 253 views
The Small Farm Plan By Booker T. Whatley
The Small Farm Plan By Booker T. Whatley
Raised on a family farm in Annislon, Ala., Booker received his B.S. in agriculture from Alabama A & M and a Ph.D. in horticulture from Rutgers University.
Mother Earth News editors · 329 views
The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us
The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us
From the San and the Kogi: Value community and cooperation; we are part of the world, not separate from it. One of the oldest cultures on Earth is that of the !Kung Bushmen of the...
Thom Hartmann · 20,198 views
Partners in Terror
Partners in Terror
“Je suis Charlie. Tout est pardonné.” Muhammad in tears adorns the new cover of Charlie Hebdo: “I am Charlie. All is forgiven.” This is bigger than satire. I take a deep breath...
Robert Koehler · 1,645 views
Stunning Photos By Alexander Semenov Showcase The Alien Beauty Of Jellyfish
Stunning Photos By Alexander Semenov Showcase The Alien Beauty Of Jellyfish
Earth Porm · 51,854 views
Moving Art
Moving Art
Louie Schwartzberg · 239 views
Why the UK Leads the Way on Inequality
Why the UK Leads the Way on Inequality
The UK is leading one global race: it is the only G7 country in which wealth inequality has increased steadily since 2000. Seemingly unaffected by the financial crisis or subsequent...
Alice Martin · 1,150 views
Prosecuting High-Level Officials Isn't Enough: It's Time We Abolish the CIA
Prosecuting High-Level Officials Isn't Enough: It's Time We Abolish the CIA
The shock resonating from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report isn’t due so much to the revelations themselves, grotesque as the details are, but to the fact that...
Robert Koehler · 1,807 views
Angela Davis: ‘There is an Unbroken Line of Police Violence in the US that Takes Us Back to Slavery'
Angela Davis: ‘There is an Unbroken Line of Police Violence in the US that Takes Us Back to Slavery'
The activist, feminist and revolutionary explains how the ‘prison industrial complex’ profits from black people, that Barack Obama can’t be blamed for the lack of progress on race, and...
Stuart Jeffries · 15,786 views
Smashy Smashy: Nine Historical Triumphs to Make You Rethink Property Destruction
Smashy Smashy: Nine Historical Triumphs to Make You Rethink Property Destruction
After Officer Darren Wilson shot teenager Michael Brown dead this summer, Ferguson, Missouri, erupted with outrage, compassion and street protests. The response from many corners of the...
Jesse A. Myerson and José Martîn · 446 views
This Sad Generation Doesn't Know When the Party Stops
This Sad Generation Doesn't Know When the Party Stops
The idea of "living for the weekend​" is nothing new. The history of what we call "youth culture" is really just a history of young people being unable to reconcile their day-to-day...
Clive Martin · 30,699 views
Ferguson and the "Us Vs. Them" Illusion
Ferguson and the "Us Vs. Them" Illusion
As the grand jury’s decision on whether nor not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson loomed, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told a TV reporter “he’s preparing for peace and war.”
Robert Koehler · 2,004 views
Happidrome: The Kurdish Fight For Anarchy
Happidrome: The Kurdish Fight For Anarchy
In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No-one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires...
Adam Curtis · 2,628 views
Ending The Oil Age
Ending The Oil Age
Big Oil’s days are numbered – but the industry could still take us all down with it. From divestment to disruption, Jess Worth explores how the transition to an oil-free future is...
Jess Worth · 3,762 views
Libertarians Should Abandon The Term "Capitalism"
Libertarians Should Abandon The Term "Capitalism"
Advocating liberty means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. But it doesn’t have to mean calling a system of peaceful, voluntary exchange “capitalism.”
Gary Chartier · 4,204 views
Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?
Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?
“Kill the Messenger” tells the tragic tale of journalist Gary Webb who revived the Contra-cocaine scandal in the 1990s and saw his life destroyed by the mainstream media. The question...
Robert Parry · 2,829 views
The Cancer of Violent Extremism
The Cancer of Violent Extremism
“As we look to the future, one issue risks a cycle of conflict that could derail so much progress. And that is the cancer of violent extremism that has ravaged so many parts of the...
Robert Koehler · 2,588 views
The Secret of Enough
The Secret of Enough
First, the truth If you are naked, cold, and hungry, and somehow you get shelter, clothing, and food, you will feel better. Providing for these necessities creates a qualitative change...
Thom Hartmann · 10,221 views
There’s Power in How We Think about Things
There’s Power in How We Think about Things
When you walk or drive down a city street, what you are seeing all around you are manifestations of thoughts. Every building began as an idea in somebody’s mind. Somebody acquired the...
Thom Hartmann · 5,497 views
Neo Liberal Revolution
Neo Liberal Revolution
How I went from Idealistic Socialist to Hard Core Neo Liberal
Neal Hegarty · 375 views
Our Kills are Clean and Secular; Theirs are Messy and Religious.
Our Kills are Clean and Secular; Theirs are Messy and Religious.
Our kills are clean and secular; theirs are messy and religious. “In their effort to create a caliphate across parts of Iraq and Syria,” CNN tells us, “ISIS fighters have slaughtered...
Robert Koehler · 5,546 views
How Unarmed Peace Efforts Can Save Lives and Diffuse Conflict Even in War Zones
How Unarmed Peace Efforts Can Save Lives and Diffuse Conflict Even in War Zones
"I think if we had a gun we would have been shot immediately.”
Robert Koehler · 2,138 views
5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth
5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth
From left to right: Starhawk, Julia Butterfly Hill, Majora Carter, Vandana Shiva, and Patricia Gualinga. August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day to honor when American women gained...
Rachael Steineckert · 16,214 views
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
A Wikileaks post published on The Nation shows that the Obama Administration fought to keep Haitian wages at 31 cents an hour.
Robert Johnson · 7,455 views
What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings
What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings
A few days ago, Deadspin's Kyle Wagner began to compile a list of all police-involved shootings in the U.S. He's not the only one to undertake such a project: D. Brian Burghart, editor...
D. Brian Burghart · 42,072 views
Why Aren't We Teaching Rachel Carson in Schools?
Why Aren't We Teaching Rachel Carson in Schools?
This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun and the animals… -- Walt Whitman Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962, but I suspect for most people reading it today the...
Robert Shetterly · 5,671 views
'Human Shield' Propaganda Used to Justify State-Sponsored Massacres for Decades
'Human Shield' Propaganda Used to Justify State-Sponsored Massacres for Decades
It’s been three weeks since Israel launched its bombing campaign and subsequent invasion of the Gaza strip. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, over 1,500 Palestinians have...
Abby and Robbie Martin · 12,264 views
Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?
Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?
FEAR, PLEASURE, SORROW, thought and violence are all interrelated. Most of us take pleasure in violence, in disliking somebody, hating a particular race or group of people, having...
J. Krishnamurti · 75,247 views
5 Reasons It's Time for the 4-Day Work Week
5 Reasons It's Time for the 4-Day Work Week
Psst: Working less is the key to success.
Lynn Stuart Parramore · 5,886 views
New York Times Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate?
New York Times Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate?
Wednesday (7/16/14)  the
Peter Hart · 3,239 views
The Deeply Held Religious Principle Hobby Lobby Suddenly Remembered It Had
The Deeply Held Religious Principle Hobby Lobby Suddenly Remembered It Had
The Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case might not have been surprising, but there's at least one aspect of the media coverage of the company that fails in a big way: Few...
Peter Hart · 3,929 views
Watching the World Destroy Itself
Watching the World Destroy Itself
The video opens with a few bars of adrenalin-pumping music. We s
Robert C. Koehler · 2,008 views
Pause in Global Warming May Be Caused by Long Term Changes in the Pacific Ocean
Pause in Global Warming May Be Caused by Long Term Changes in the Pacific Ocean
Dr. Kevin Trenberth illuminates the mechanics of ocean heat, and the coming El Nino event, and makes a bold prediction.
Robert Sinclair · 904 views
A New Story for a New Economy
A New Story for a New Economy
David Korten's new essay (available to read as a PDF) connects the work of finding a new sacred story with the effort to build a new economy.
David Korten · 8,781 views
The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Development Paradigm
The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Development Paradigm
During the 15 years, I lived and worked in Asia as a development professional from 1978 to 1992, I witness a troubling paradox. GDP was growing, incomes were rising, there was an...
David Korten · 3,544 views
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
This is easily the best comic strip ever made.
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley · 17,859,672 views
It's a "Story Problem": What's Behind Our Messed-Up Economy
It's a "Story Problem": What's Behind Our Messed-Up Economy
The peoples of earlier times prospered from the guidance of simple stories that offered answers to their deepest questions. We need those now more than ever.
David Korten · 2,396 views
5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for all Americans
5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for all Americans
Half of all Canadians want it. The Swiss have had a referendum on it. The idea's not as far-fetched as it sounds What if you could receive a guaranteed basic yearly income with no...
Lynn Stuart Parramore · 21,197 views
9 Mistakes Activists With Class Privilege Make
9 Mistakes Activists With Class Privilege Make
Adapted from “Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change.” 1. The Boss
Adam Roberts · 3,811 views
Climate change: Time for the Skeptics to Put Up or Shut Up
Climate change: Time for the Skeptics to Put Up or Shut Up
If climate change sceptics have a coherent explanation for the events we are witnessing, it's time they held an international conference and told us what they believe Say I were to ask...
Henry Porter · 6,031 views
A Look Back: Indigenous Resistance in 2013
A Look Back: Indigenous Resistance in 2013
Reclaim Turtle Island is dedicated to spreading the word on the Indigenous Insurrection in 2014, and we look forward to continue to lift up one another’s voices on the frontlines against...
Reclaim Turtle Island · 5,457 views
The Internet Is Dead, Long Live the Internet!
The Internet Is Dead, Long Live the Internet!
The internet as we know it is dead.
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program · 3,589 views
Facebook's Community Double Standards
Facebook's Community Double Standards
Is Facebook flirting with fascism? The question might prove difficult to answer with a resounding “yes or no,” but, to those who have been keeping track of its recent censorship...
Ben Norton · 6,091 views
How Even a Proven Government Conspiracy Can Get Totally Dismissed by Corporate Media
How Even a Proven Government Conspiracy Can Get Totally Dismissed by Corporate Media
In the insular world of Manhattan media, there’s much handwringing over the latest blow to print publications
Robert Parry · 3,167 views
The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The future of the human species - if there is to be a future - must be radically green, red, black and female.
Robert Jensen · 4,918 views
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