How we build a better world in the face of climate catastrophe and social collapse.

It will take real collective action — not just canceling your Prime subscription — to force the company to change its labor practices

Justin Ward

Why I Refuse to Avoid White People

In the days since the white supremacists marched into Charlottesville, Va., my Twitter feed has lit up with advice from black pundits, activists and even friends: “It’s time to stop talking about racism with white people.” “Whiteness is always protected, even at its...

Chloé Valdary

Risk Rooted in Colonial Era Weighs on Bahamas Efforts to Rebuild After Hurricane Dorian

When Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas on Sept. 1, 2019, it packed winds of up to 185 miles per hour and a 20-foot storm surge. A day later, it ravaged Grand Bahama for 24 hours.

Jason von Meding, David Prevatt and Ksenia Chmutina

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

How to live a more sustainable life? This question generates a lot of debate that is focused on what individuals can do in order to address problems like climate change. For example, people are encouraged to shop locally, to buy organic food, to install home insulation, or to...

Kris De Decker

Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal

Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest issue that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the key backup “renewable” if it otherwise proves impossible to get off of...

Don Fitz

More Than 800 Scholars and Activists Sign Open Letter Demanding US End Support for Bolivia's Right-Wing Coup Regime

"We are outraged by the Áñez regime's violations of Bolivians' political, civil, and human rights, and by the deplorable use of deadly violence that has led to a mounting death toll."

Jake Johnson

How to Save the Planet and Ourselves

We must reduce carbon emissions by 40% in the next 12 years to have a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophe.

Chris Hedges

Documentary Provides Rare Look at Higher Education in Prison

Educating inmates is cheaper than locking them up again, in addition to being the right thing to do. A new PBS documentary goes behind the scenes.

Mneesha Gellman/Emerson College

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

The tumbling dance of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations can polish the rough rocks of your life story into precious gemstones.

Teri Lynn

Thinking Outside the Grid

Thirty years ago, a friend of mine published a book called 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save The Earth. It described the huge environmental benefits that would result if everyone made some simple adjustments to their way of life. Six hundred thousand gallons of gas could be...

Steven Gorelick

Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation

Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars to convince the public that they aren't responsible for climate breakdown. Is it a coincidence that climate skeptics believe and share the exact same talking points? - Films For Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Syria’s Kurds Dreamt of a ‘Rojava Revolution’. Assad Will Snuff This Out

A brave social experiment looks doomed at the hands of Syria’s dictator

Kenan Malik

Imagine for a Moment.... a Future to Believe In

Just imagine living in an America that has the policies Bernie & Co. are pushing for. Poverty will be virtually eliminated. Medical and Student Debt Relief will be huge burdens lifted; Medicare for All and Tuition-Free College ensure that those issues never happen again...

Michael Emero

A Few Thoughts on Practical Activism

This speech by Kira McPherson was delivered during the #ClimateStrike protest on September 20th, 2019 in Lawrence, Kansas.

Kira McPherson

35 Year Industry Veteran Takes on Climate Change Denial and Inaction With the Climate Trail

The Climate Trail is a "good, realistic, and sobering" free game about the post-apocalyptic world we face if we continue on our current path.

William Volk

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

Localism taps into a deep need for community and a sense of place. Nationalism, on the other hand, destroys our sense of interdependence with human-scale community and the living environment.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

What is ‘Energy Denial’?

The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than abandonment of the slogan...

Don Fitz

Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites

We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.

Chris Hedges

Climate Change in the Age of the Resistance

It should be no secret that I love The Dark Crystal, and have since I was a small child in the '80's. I've always found the journey to discover a path to heal what is broken, without destroying "evil," but by unifying the dark and the light within us. It's just art though...

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

“Free, Fair and Alive” Is Now Published!

From cohousing and agroecology to fisheries and land trusts and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to “commoning as a way to emancipate themselves from a predatory market/state system.

Free, Fair and Alive

As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs

As civilization faces an existential crisis, our leaders demonstrate their inability to respond. Theory of change shows that now is the time for radically new ideas to transform society before it’s too late.

Jeremy Lent

Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments

In September of 2011, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis— a man who the best evidence suggested was innocent. On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was murdered by self-appointed community ‘guardian’ George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Then Michael Brown...

Rob Urie

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 something only if we can understand how it is connected to everything else.”

Robert Koehler

Our Invisible Government

The most powerful and important organs in the invisible government are the nation’s bloated and unaccountable intelligence agencies.

Chris Hedges

This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.

What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.

Justin Mcbrien

How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist

'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'

Peter Kalmus

Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside

Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response to climate change. “I want you to panic,” the baby-faced sixteen-year-old quietly...

Catherine Tumber

The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

As media theorists, we set out in Spring 2019 to pool our collective expertise into a short and very readable article for the mainstream press about how media treats Western foreign policy.

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann

Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities

Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School. “Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever I’m with you.” ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes As I pull

Ian Mackenzie

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...

Local Futures

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

This charter was originally published in Spanish as a rallying call for Social Solidarity Economy initiatives within the Spanish territory. We have translated it to share its principles with English speaking audiences and Social Solidarity initiatives worldwide. This article...

REAS

Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry

Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paine’s life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he was either ignored or excoriated—the price he paid for The Age of...

Bruce E. Levine

Trump the Magician: The Real Function of Racism and Xenophobia

Donald Trump is a con artist. He is practicing one of the oldest tricks in the book, borrowing a page from every magician who seeks to fool and dazzle their audience by distracting their attention at a critical moment in the act. Trump’s trick of choice has a long history in...

Brian Becker

The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers.

Ronnie Cummins

Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week

Working less would massively reduce our carbon footprint, and bring many other benefits besides

André Spicer

Want to Tackle Inequality? Then First Change Our Land Ownership Laws

What is the most neglected issue in British politics? I would say land. Literally and metaphorically, land underlies our lives, but its ownership and control have been captured by a tiny number of people. The results include soaring inequality and exclusion; the massive cost...

George Monbiot

Are We Done Fighting?

We need ways to build healthier relationships with people who have perspectives different from our own.

Matthew Legge

‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump's Persecution of Assange

In the endless brain fart cyclone that is the Trump era, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta has made a name for himself posing as a martyr of the free press. While US mass media have made a theatrical WWE performance of Trump’s occasional mean words toward Acosta

Caitlin Johnstone

Flag of Distress/What to a Migrant Child Is July 4th?

A Poem For Freedom

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming

In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earth’s species are being driven to extinction; before that, researchers reported the climate was warming faster than even the most pessimistic projections. Worse yet, another report gave humanity...

Thomas Linzey

Was Austerity a Scam?

Austerity in Ireland resulted in over 10,000 homeless people, the crisis overseen by a government ideologically opposed to the concept of social housing. Now a property boom is taking place that is enriching an elite while the homeless figures continue to rise. Is this...

Eamonn Kelly

European Paganism and Christianization

In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked – Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of religious beliefs, most of which are pejoratively referred to as paganism. The...

Jordan Engel

Workers Should Be in Charge

Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.

Peter Gowan

American Exceptionalism, American Innocence, and What Comes Next: An Interview With Danny Haiphong

The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on...

Colin Jenkins

The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down

Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems of governance that would, first and foremost, protect them (the wealthy, landowning minority)...

Colin Jenkins

Scott Noble's History of Resistance

Scott Noble has been making documentary films for close to a decade. His films are consistently thoughtful and never superficial. Reminiscent of Chris Marker’s documentary work in style and approach, Noble’s films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...

Ron Jacobs

Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee

Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.

Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton

I’m a Jewish Historian. Yes, We Should Call Border Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps'

It isn’t just accurate. It’s necessary.

Anna Lind-Guzik

This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire - and What Lies Beyond

An excerpt from a new book by Samuel Alexander and Rupert Read

Samuel Alexander

The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange

LONDON—On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly...

Chris Hedges

Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos

Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine cows from Mexico being fed corn imported from the United States, then being exported to the United States for butchering...

Local Futures

Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse

“The collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” – David Attenborough

Edward Fullbrook

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. The guys who run those companies – and they are mostly guys – have gotten rich on the backs of literally all life on Earth. Their business model relies on the destruction...

Jordan Engel

The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness

McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.

Ronald Purser

Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University

The Fridays For Future (FFF) climate strike by high school students may well be one of the most important, yet hardly covered stories by the US media today. During the week of March 15th alone, 1.6 million strikers were counted across 125 countries. This environmental...

Otto Scharmer

The Big Picture

Humanity has a lot of problems these days. Climate change, increasing economic inequality, crashing biodiversity, political polarization, and a global debt bubble are just a few of our worries. None of these trends can continue indefinitely without leading to a serious...

Richard Heinberg

What Is Neoliberalism?

A short summary

Colin Jenkins

The Farms of the Future

Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...

Isabel Marlens

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

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