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We live in a world dominated by the principle of private property. Once indigenous people were dispossessed of their lands, the land was surveyed, subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. From high above, continents now appear as an endless property patchwork of green and...
Julian Brave Noisecat
If you’re out there trying to change your neighborhood, community, city, country, or the world then this is for you. In moments when everything seems hopeless, read this to get your hope on.
1. Hope can co-exist with other feelings. Grief and hope can co-exist. Fear and hope...
Abby Brockman
It has been said that we’re living through “The Age of Loneliness.” Loneliness is “epidemic” among young adults, and even more common among the elderly, with some reporting that the numb
Planet Local
It is well known that economic inequality is rising. In most industrialised nations the distribution of wealth and income is becoming increasingly concentrated. In the United States, the top 10% of earners make more than nine times as much on average as the remainder, and in...
Nick Haslam
National Democrats have used hyperbolic Russia-bashing to shield themselves from blame for Hillary Clinton’s defeat and to block progressives from pulling the party away from Wall Street, writes Norman Solomon.
Norman Solomon
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 province, reports Robert Parry.
Robert Parry
Being a well-adjusted human has never been easier.
Anna Borges
The Democratic establishment and those in the media who support them keep making the same mistakes on Sanders and his movement.
Liam Miller
As an anarchist, as someone who believes neither in leaders nor the means by which we select them, I’m obviously at something of a disadvantage when it comes to making political endorsements of any kind. That said, I wasn’t born an anarchist.
Alan Moore
CW: description of a suicide attempt
On 19th April 2012, I overdosed whilst living in San Francisco. I had just had a therapy session, in which my and my therapist signed a “suicide contract” — one that said I agreed to calling her if I was feeling like I was going to do...
A universal basic income (UBI) – an idea in which the government replaces all other forms of monetary assistance (welfare, social security, etc.) with yearly stipend – has enormous potential to radically transform our current unsustainable consumer economy based on individual...
Chris Agnos
According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time. So the ‘self’/‘other’ distinction that’s axiomatic...
Abeba Birhane
Populism sure is getting bad reviews. All manner of evil is getting laid at its door: racism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, jingoism – and that’s just the start. The conventional view is that populism is an irrational and impatient response to modern dilemmas that are best...
Richard Swift
Where humanity is going, there are no roadmaps. The terrain is unlike anything we’ve seen before. The changes sweeping the Earth right now are literally planetary in scale and so filled with complexity that few among us even have a semblance of knowing what is actually going...
Joe Brewer
By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.
George Monbiot
The “21 Theses,” dated July 2014 and published in November 2015, marked the birth of the Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris.
In May 2016 I had the opportunity to ask Patrick Farbiaz, one of its founders, what the cooperative meant by social ecology. He explained that it...
Janet Biehl and The Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris
The Power of Humility, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Love
Jacob Devaney
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...
Kevin Carson
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 had brokered a peace deal with the guerrillas of the FARC-Ep received the Nobel Peace Prize...
As I write, a million words are being typed on the same subject as quickly as fingers can slam downwards, in a quest to shovel something regarding Theresa May’s election plans onto front pages around the world within the next few minutes.
Rob Ray
In an age where the weather app is a tap away, we don’t need to look far for a forecast. But what if you don’t have internet? As you head out into spring, try it the old-fashioned way. Here are five hints from nature to help you decide whether to plan a picnic.
Lydia Cain
1. Work – The constrained performance of some skill (cognitive, emotional, physical etc.) in return for substituting your own ends with an economic reward, or in the ultimate hope of receiving some such reward.
Nick Ford
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 mega-campaigners.
Richard D. Bartlett
War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The invasion of Afghanistan set out to defeat al-Qaida, and nearly 16 years later, we are embroiled in a losing fight with the Taliban. We believed we could invade Iraq and create a...
Chris Hedges
It’s November 9 2010, and I’m one of many students that have surrounded and taken over the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank Tower in London. I’m angry, we are all angry, because the government is trying to triple the amount of money we have to pay to learn, develop...
Rhiannon Colvin
A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria.
Robert C. Koehler
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said the "unprecedented use of an MOAB...marks a new front in the almost 16 year war in Afghanistan."
Lauren McCauley
It defies logic, right? That the poor would pay more for basic life items, essentially ensuring that they stay in the cycle of poverty forever. But people can forget that if you are living paycheck to paycheck, then it often becomes impossible to afford buying more than one...
Hazel Garcia
The Kurds’ democratic resistance to ISIS demonstrates that anti-fascism cannot be separated from the wider struggle against capitalism, patriarchy and the state.
Dilar Dirik
Swallowing the lies – or ‘alternative facts’ – of populist politicians is having profound consequences. NJ Enfield takes a fresh look at a potent old tradition – and suggests a way forward.
NJ Enfield
Saying “no” can be really hard. But Christine Carter has a three-step plan to get there.
Christine Carter
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 followed with a proclamation that we have to do “something”. A specific and very timely example...
Daniel Martin
"Perhaps our whole fucked up attitude to war comes from only ever seeing our missiles taking off, only ever seeing our soldiers setting out."
Frankie Boyle
Rally against US imperial intervention, but remember Assad’s crimes and be in solidarity with his victims.
Bashir Abu-Manneh
We assume that most working class people are tired of living in poverty, living paycheck to paycheck, watching the products of their hard work evaporate before their eyes.
Redneck Revolt
'The impetuousness of this bombing campaign - its impulsiveness - is stunning even by US war-loving standards'
Jon Queally
Four years ago, massive citizen opposition and mobilization stopped a possible U.S. military attack on the Assad government of Syria that many predicted would have made the terrible conflict even worse. Once again, we need to stop an escalation of that dreadful war and...
Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright
Just two and a half months into his presidency, Donald Trump has already distinguished himself as a war criminal. His administration is killing unusually large numbers of civilians, in violation of US and international law.
Marjorie Cohn
The following is an excerpt called A Slave World taken from a passage from Sacred Economics.
Chris Agnos
Unlike self-esteem, the good feelings of self-compassion do not depend on being special and above average, or on meeting ideal goals.
Kristin Neff
First they came for the Muslims, and we said: “Not this time, motherfuckers!”
ROAR Collective
The key to a great garden? Good dirt. Here’s how you can grow your own.
Peter D'Auria and Miles Schneiderman
Populists claim to speak for the people, but, as Dinyar Godrej explains, they rarely do. So what are the options for a true politics of the people?
Dinyar Godrej
Brexit Britain is ready to go to war over Gibraltar says Lord Howard, a man I had assumed was dead, even when he was leader of the Tory Party. What could be more indicative of a failure to understand the age of digitalised globalisation than fighting over an actual rock where...
Frankie Boyle
As Article 50 is triggered, here's what you can do to stop Britain's slide to the hard right.
Adam Ramsay
By redistributing economic and political power from corporate monopolies to millions of small businesses, localization has the power to revitalize the democratic process, re-rooting political power in community.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Just over a year ago we were convicted for our part in the Heathrow 13 action. We occupied the Northern runway at Heathrow, cancelling 25 flights, saving hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide from being emitted and protesting against the construction of the proposed third...
Plane Stupid
YES! Magazine readers submitted their ideas for updating the classic icon. See the winning poster ideas—and download your favorites.
Jennifer Luxton
As the march towards Brexit rekindles arguments over British nationalism and the strength and merits of the union between England and Scotland, the mass of conflicted feelings over the British Empire is naturally bubbling to the surface again.
Ibtisam Ahmed
There is a common misconception that video games induce loneliness, or a symptom of disconnection. But although games are often blamed as a cause of mental illness, numerous studies have shown they are often a remedy, more than anything. Video games are therapeutic for...
Marijam Didzgalvyte and Jish Newham
People are turning their frustrations with the Trump administration into actions that make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable community members.
Lornet Turnbull
Campaigners block access to quarry supplying material to fracking industry, calling on suppliers to 'break the chain' that enables fracking against the wishes of locals.
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? Because the Peters projection accurately shows different countries’ relative sizes...
Donald Houston, University of Portsmouth
'Donald Trump only cares about making his special interest pals richer even though our children will inherit a world ravaged by climate change'
Nika Knight
40 people injured. 4 dead.
An attack likely inspired by ‘international terrorism’ and Islamist-motivated.
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Nafeez Ahmed
There is a kind of lottery that very rarely is talked about in which every single human being participates.
Chris Agnos
In a world where some of the most unimaginable shitheads keep getting elevated to positions of authority and influence, it's gratifying to see them taken down a peg or two... or in this case, shrunk to doll-size and put in a box. 21st Century Bastards are the best satirical...
We must not give up on revolutionary optimism. It may get us some important concessions from neo-liberalism—and possibly much, much more.
Willy Mutunga
For the majority of the past century, a battle has been waged between two dominant ideologies – capitalism and communism. Both competing economic systems focus on how best to allocate goods and services to the population. Capitalism uses democracy and “free markets” to...
Chris Agnos
Every day, we’re treated to another barrage of outright falsehoods from the White House: Trump won the election by a landslide, Sweden is the crime capital of Europe, corpses are piling up in Bowling Green, anarchists are on George Soros’s payroll, nobody loves women or black...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Our aim is a society where people are guaranteed the necessities of life not because they’re sympathetic, but because they’re human beings.
Clio Chang
Poverty as we know it is not and has never been the fate of humanity.
Jim Tull
What makes people brave? Vanessa Baird takes a look at an under-examined quality that can change the world.
Vanessa Baird
Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning.
Patrick Stokes, Deakin University
Three principles to help you avoid burnout and continue working toward a better world.
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip service to liberty and justice while obliterating the institutions and laws that make them...
Chris Hedges
The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their own things.
Jeremy Williams
"Capitalism is Evil!"
"No, socialism is Evil!"
"You must love oligarchy!"
"You must love communism!"
Sound familiar? That's what passes for "debate" these days- beating each other over the head with divisive labels and any extreme straw-man arguments handy. Ideas become...
We are living in a time full of threats – and unprecedented possibilities, especially when it comes to the state of the media. Let’s consider five paradoxes, in no particular order.
Vanessa Baird
Environment, public education, worker protections, and cultural institutions all stand to lose under Trump's "cruel" budget blueprint
Deirdre Fulton
Pablo Picasso was feeling uninspired. The world’s most famous artistic genius had been commissioned to do a painting for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937, but all he had come up with in three months were some preliminary sketches that he didn’t like very...
Gavin Aung Than
If you want to sustain yourself for the work ahead, here’s some advice: It doesn’t matter whether the other side “deserves” anger.
Colin Beavan
In rural McDowell County, West Virginia, a crowd of Trump supporters cheered progressive senator's call for universal healthcare
Nika Knight
On January 30 – three days after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries – an American scientist employed by NASA was detained at the US border
Paul Ralph
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 200,000 disputable parking tickets in London, New York, and Seattle. It’s also given free...
Dom Galeon and Kelsey Marquart
Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth.
Lynn Parramore
April 1 to 7: Call for a Week of Solidarity
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaphysical stance on the self...
Skye C Cleary
Have you heard any of these statements before?
Life is hard and requires sacrifice. If you work hard, you will succeed. There is not enough. Look out for yourself. The world is hostile. “Survival of the fittest.” Competition drives progress. Be rational. Control your...
Chris Agnos
Have you noticed all the cuts being made to your city budget? To schools and libraries, fire fighters and social services, and other public spending? Think you could do a better job managing the budget? Soon, you may have that chance.
Maria Hadden and Josh Lerner
Communication is essential to achieve successful human interactions. However, the type of communication we have highly determines the outcome of our relationships. It all simply boils down to how we are connecting with each other.
Elyane Youssef
Or, The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land
Rob Hopkins
In this article, Smucker reveals how radicals can pursue a revolutionary horizon that "delivers the goods." The key is to arm ourselves with the strategic knowledge and orientation to start building the future we want now, in the shell of the old.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
In the face of corporate domination, economic injustice, and climate change, movements led by women offer a revolutionary path.
Rucha Chitnis
America has always been great for the richest 1%, and it's rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-2016 Credit Suisse
Paul Buchheit
We face a very serious political problem in this country, and that problem is manifested in
Bernie Sanders
Strike for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people
FFA Staff
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.
WikiLeaks
Now more than ever, we cannot take news media at face value – we need tools to read media critically, strategies to discern how information works. This is what inspired The Listening Post’s project: Media Theorised.
We’ve taken key works of five thinkers from around the...
The Listening post
"It's still religious discrimination in the pre-textual guise of national security. And it's still unconstitutional."
Andrea Germanos
Theresa May was defeated in the Lords last week, and ever since has worn the appalled expression of a famously strict headmistress who has intercepted a note being passed between pupils that turns out to be a breathtakingly vivid representation of a masturbating werewolf. It...
Frankie Boyle
From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.
Sarah Lazare
Donald Trump’s presidency has already been an unprecedented barrage of racism, homophobia, sexism and other attacks on human rights and the planet. He is a racist, a misogynist, and the world’s climate change denier in chief; in short he is terrifying. But the response gives...
Steve Rushton
Donald Trump’s administration has seen several “rogue” Twitter accounts claiming to be from staffers in the White House and other US governmental agencies. The accounts purport to provide snippets of insider information to the public; its “revelations” extend from exampled...
Helen Ringrow
I have been besieged by a jumbled, confused trail of thoughts
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
I ran into my friend Rick the other day in a small town near our homes in northern Vermont. He was just coming out of the bookstore, holding a pink plastic bag that, I would soon learn, contained a dozen eggs from his flock of free range hens. After a bit of small talk, Rick...
Steven Gorelick
It's 3:23 in the morning
and I'm awake
because my great great grandchildren
won't let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?
—
Dahr Jamail
Free your mind, find your power, change the world
Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld
The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life’s work to present a sustainable redesign of our culture.
The project lays out a sustainable world civilization where technology and science are applied to redesigning our social system with the prime concern being...
Daniel Araya with Roxanne Meadows
To get someone’s support, you need more than just facts.
Colin Beavan