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“The creation of today’s market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
– Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine
Liberty! Human Rights! Choice! Prosperity! Freedom!
These seemi
Drew Serres · 64,172 views · unrated
In recent years, populist explanations for world events have become common and often taken the form of anti-establishment conspiracy theories. The contradiction between how people believe the world should be, according to the mainstream propaganda pertaining to liberty and...
Colin Todhunter · 15,827 views · 5 stars
Frightening commentary has emerged among liberals committing to a protest-vote against both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Proponents argue that, in some undescribed way, their protest-vote will send to these front-runners the “signal” that they are not entitled to our...
Ariän El-Taher · 1,172 views · 5 stars
During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between these forms and to what I will call (with a nod to William James) "the...
James Gilligan · 14,063 views · 5 stars
This paper by Michael Shuman, 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 Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commission
Michael Shuman · 3,528 views · unrated
In the aftermath of the Leave vote, people will need to find ways to calmly hear each other and bridge divides. Ultimately, we will need to unite against the corporate forces that undermine our wellbeing, not against immigrants who are victims as well.
Kristen Steele · 2,613 views · 4 stars
What would happen if we didn't have to worry about making a living anymore? Would people just sit on their asses all day or actually do something meaningful with their lives? Michael Bohmeyer, a 29-year-old founder of a tech startup in Berlin, wanted to find out.
Chris Köver · 33,164 views · 4.9 stars
In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.
Eli Friedman and Andi Kao · 1,996 views · unrated
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 Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in...
David Schweickart · 4,510 views · unrated
For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on the BBC and elsewhere that Muslims were the culprits. T
Glenn Greenwald · 4,107 views · unrated
Stop calling this TV's golden age. It's still the Idiot Box, even if you like "Girls," Jon Stewart and "The Wire"
I think it happened around Season 3 of “The Wire.” Maybe it was “The Sopranos.” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? “Lost”? I can’t say. I just know I woke up one day...
Alexander Zaitchik · 5,053 views · 5 stars
The results are in: No amount of "green capitalism" will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization from the catastrophic impacts of global warming.
Richard Smith · 8,616 views · 5 stars
"I remember the first time that a grading rubric was attached to a piece of my writing….Suddenly all the joy was taken away. I was writing for a grade -- I was no longer exploring for me. I want to get that back. Will I ever get that back?"-- Claire, a student (in Olson...
Alfie Kohn · 13,270 views · 5 stars
Like many other people in Israel and across the world, my first reaction to the attack on October 7 was of shock and horror. But that initial reaction was accompanied by rage, not only at the appalling massacre perpetrated by Hamas on women and children, the elderly and the...
Omer Bartov · 397 views · 4.8 stars
We must not let authoritarians co-opt the language of people's movements for their own ends.
Alex Jensen · 16,923 views · 4.5 stars
What single change stands to give Americans more free time, healthier ecosystems, and more meaningful jobs?
James Gustave Speth · 8,388 views · 5 stars
It got so hot in Australia in January that the weather service had to add two new colors to its charts. A few weeks later, at the other end of the planet, new data from the CryoSat-2 satellite showed 80 percent of Arctic sea ice has disappeared. We're not breaking records...
Bill McKibben · 6,530 views · 5 stars
The Democratic Party is engaged in an epic battle about how change happens. On one side is the establishment who are backing Hillary’s cautious, pragmatic, and incremental approach. On the other are the Sanders supporters who are calling for a revolution.
There’s an...
John Atcheson · 5,036 views · 5 stars
A poll in 2012 showed that trust in the mainstream media is increasing, which should worry all of us who value truth, integrity and press freedom.
Sophie McAdam · 37,556 views · 4.9 stars
The zombie apocalypse, of course, is a metaphor. It’s an allegory for the extremely unstable world we are living in at the moment.
john the baptist ·
7,632 views · 4.7 stars
“American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun culture, the blind adoration of the military, the belief that we have an innate right as a “Christian” nation to exterminate the “lesser breeds” of the earth, a grotesque hypermasculinity that...
Chris Hedges · 20,865 views · 5 stars
She's not the candidate of economic fairness, peace or a genuine progressive agenda. She's also not more electable
P.J. Podesta · 5,314 views · 4.5 stars
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 the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.”
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John Fullerton · 15,124 views · 4 stars
Bruce E. Ivins, a bioweapons researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, died Tuesday, July 29 2008, reportedly by suicidal drug overdose just as the Department of Justice was about to charge him with the 2001 anthrax attacks. The FBI had...
Michael Green · 3,134 views · unrated
For many Americans, it’s time for a system change along the lines of the Nordic model. This has the political establishment deeply worried.
George Lakey · 1,261 views · unrated
As a conspiracy theory, the term New World Order or NWO refers to the emergence of a totalitarian one-world government.
various writers · 9,551 views · unrated
The definitive critique of our economic system since its beginning to the present day.
Kevin A. Carson · 108,824 views · 4.9 stars
"When one comes to think of it, it is strange that thousands of people in a great modern city should spend their waking hours swabbing dishes in hot dens underground. The question I am raising is why this life goes on--what purpose it serves, and who wants it to...
Prole.info · 14,651 views · 4.8 stars
Of the many unanswered questions about the attacks of September 11, one of the most important is: Why were none of the four planes intercepted? A rough answer is that the failure of the US air defenses can be traced to a number of factors and people. There were policy...
Kevin Ryan · 6,326 views · unrated
“Patriarchy has no gender.”
― bell hooks in Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
bell hooks’ quote is a clear reminder that patriarchy does not just describe male actions of domination, but also how some organizations and cultural narratives function.
Patriarchy...
Drew Serres · 6,850 views · 4.8 stars
When attending meetings with peace and justice activists, I often find myself the only business person in the room. Inevitably, someone makes a comment about the evils of business, or greedy capitalists, or some other negative comment that implies business people are the...
Judy Wicks · 6,817 views · 5 stars
For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances.
Peter Dale Scott · 3,990 views · 5 stars
Noam ChomskyI'd like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not - and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they're framed almost reflexively in terms of...
Noam Chomsky · 4,214 views · 4 stars
Editor’s Note: The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.”
David DeGraw · 6,826 views · 5 stars
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.
— Walter Lippmann
Probably every conflict is...
Anup Shah · 36,733 views · 5 stars