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The real story behind the refugee/migrant crisis in Europe is much stranger than fiction.
If you watch the news, you've probably heard about the refugee crisis in Europe (or the "migrant crisis" as some are referring to it). Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from the...
6 min
The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his country’s political...
Chris Hedges
Mashup artists Cassetteboy take on David Cameron after the Conservative party released a video attacking Jeremy Corbyn. The Tory scare movie took the new Labour leader’s words on the death of Osama bin Laden out of context. So what does David Cameron think about fairness, the...
1 min
The number of people displaced by wars fuelled by the west and its allies has reached a staggering new high.
Ben Norton
Yanis Varoufakis talks to Paul Mason about Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, the media and capitalism.
3 min
Let's just say, just purely hypothetically of course, I know it's completely ridiculous but what if we had, only ONE planet, just one. One planet to live on. One planet to breathe and eat from. One planet to make our day upon, make our way upon, make our cities upon, to sink...
5 min
The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.
Many who respond to something disagree with it. That's to be...
Paul Graham
Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7:30pm Market Chaos and Capitalism's Instability Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall.
92 min
From The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy:
Will Shetterly and Thandeka
The London Arms Fair comes to the ExCel centre this week. You'll find guns, tanks and killer drones - and you may also find offers of illegal torture equipment. Want to know more? Visit Torture on Your Doorstep.
2 min
Corbyn has said that his campaign is about turning the Labour Party into a social movement. That’s the only chance he has.
Richard Seymour
Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the...
Daniel Lattier
Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. It’s what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial (read why here...
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POC21 is an innovation camp for open-source sustainability taking place at Chateau de Millemont (Paris) in 2015. 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy. Their ultimate goal: Overcome...
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In early September, a huge delegation of the Buddhist teacher and author Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's monks and nuns will arrive in New York City to lead retreats, book launches, and outdoor meditations and I will be driving from Baltimore to join them. In more than 20 years...
Marisela B. Gomez, MD, PhD
The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority
Nafeez Ahmed
On the tenth anniversary of the Attacks of September 11th, 2001, expert witnesses gathered at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada to provide evidence-based research that called into question the official story of 9/11. This was known as The Toronto Hearings on 9/11.
Over a...
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In his upcoming October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. "There's a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system," he says in...
3 min
The Last Pig journeys into the life of a pig farmer as he grapples with death, searches for compassion, and finally finds the courage to change.
2 min
We've drained our planet's stored energy, scientists say, with no rechargeable plug in sight.
Andrew Nikiforuk
As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank, has released a new booklet to teach young people "the right facts" -
Abby Zimet
Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild are major shareholders in and members of the Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Energy. Israel has granted Genie oil exploration in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Genie plans to drill 10 exploratory wells over three years there...
Michael Dickinson
Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but they’re merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.
William Kaufman
A Cal State Sacramento University professor who allegedly told his United States History class he did not like the term ‘genocide’ in relation to Native Americans in history, told a Native American student who disagreed with him that she was disenrolled and expelled from his...
Vincent Schilling
Publication that gives grants to scientists goes from non-profit to for-profit under Fox umbrella.
Xeni Jardin
Learn how to turn any business into a worker-owned cooperative with this checklist.
Cat Johnson
A bitter dose of heartfelt rationality in a field muddied by conspiracy industry dimwits.
Nafeez Ahmed
When Congressman Thomas Massie first arrived in Washington, DC as a freshman from Kentucky, a long-tenured North Carolinian, Walter Jones, asked him an intriguing question.
28pages.org
The long-suppressed 'Trump: What’s the Deal?' is now available to be streamed online.
Sola Agustsson
Find out how anchor institutions like hospitals and universities can help worker cooperatives create green jobs in the neighborhoods that need them most.
4 min
Extracted from Royal Babylon: the Criminal Record of the British Monarchy. An investigative poem by Heathcote Williams.
Heathcote Williams
It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s marriage monopoly was eventually discovered, and Rorex quit — many calling for her to face...
Ryan Calhoun
If you live amongst society today it’s nearly a guarantee that you are causing some amount of environmental harm via your transportation. How much is largely up to you. There is no one size fits all solution to environmental destruction caused by getting yourself around so...
Rob Greenfield
There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly. And I write it only having become convinced, after several months...
Robyn Scott
Climate Deadline is an ambitious documentary in the making, taking us from the UN climate talks in Durban in 2011 (COP17) to COP21 in Paris this December, where this project will be finalised and the nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty is being...
69 min
Author and humourist PG Wodehouse once wrote that “it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine”. He was absolutely right when it came to American presidential hopeful and property mogul Donald Trump’s attempts to insinuate...
Gavin Foster
Does it feel like every day you're being told to "call people out" for more and more things? While acknowledging that some people do deserve to be called out for their actions, Brooke Sopelsa talks about an alternative for those who might not deserve it.
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Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn anJeff Neumann
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests
Nafeez Ahmed
Tens of thousands of people have attended candlelight vigils across Australia in support of refugees, adding their voices to the growing pressure on Australia to accept more people who are fleeing the war in Syria.
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As we see pictures of German citizens cheering tens of thousands refugees arriving from Syria and other war zones, we may be witnessing an emerging pattern of the years to come: bureaucracy is failing (EU), systems collapsing (millions of Asylum seeking refugees in urgent...
Otto Scharmer
1) “Call-out culture was developed to allow activist groups to confront leaders who abused their privilege, but now it is being used to settle petty scores on the level of interpersonal politics. I now have a hard time believing some people when they make call-outs because I...
Anonymous Anarchist
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
Paul Buchheit
#2. Bartending is far more dangerous than being a police officer.
James Woods
The refugee crisis in Europe is showing that humans helping each other, irrespective of national boundaries, is often the most effective form of action.
Jonathan Davis
Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well.
Michael Todd Landis
Mark Kernan argues that the late comedian was a shaman of our times
It has been amazing for me to return the the White Crow Farm. Six years ago I moved to this land to reconnect with my roots, and to start to use my skills in media to tell the story of the important work happening on the land. That project would one day turn into Over Grow...
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Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Ralph Nader
Recently, on All Things Considered—you know, that bastion of liberal media—Mara Liasson, talking about the prospect of Joe Biden running for President said:
There are many Democrats who think it would be good for Hillary Clinton because she'd have a serious opponent, and it...
John Atcheson
"Anarcho-syndicalism is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none."
Michael S. Wilson and Noam Chomsky
What will happen when the state collapses? Will society descend into lawlessness, or can we seize the opportunity to let our human potential flourish?
Joseph Todd
Abby Martin explores the U.S. Empire, its rise to world hegemony and its impact on people and the planet.
25 min
Last week, 14-year-old Ahed Tamimi confronted an Israeli soldier who was assaulting her brother. She is one of the faces of the anti-occupation movement in the West Bank.
2 min
This week we re-think our critique of the People's Climate March, then we go to Germany where trouble makers have been regularly shutting down Europe's largest source of CO2. Then on to Greece, to look at a growing resistance against a gold mine and finally to the longest...
7 min
A tax on Wall Street traders would tame risky bets on the stock market without disrupting America’s economy.
Douglas Cliggott
Trees 'store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services'
Andrea Germanos
Rather than waiting for society to all agree how we need to live in a different way, by focusing here in the suburban household, people can actually get on with making changes… a lot can happen right where people are. – David Holmgren, co-founder of Permacul
Chip Richards
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy
Patricia Tashiro