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Four Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence can mean the difference between behaving in a socially acceptable way and being considered to be way out of line. While most people will have heard of emotional intelligence, not many people really know how to spot it in themselves or in others.
Is Trump Really President?
These are strange times in American politics. And stranger still is the emerging character of the Trump presidency. Events are appearing with growing frequency, raising the question who is really running the White House and the US government? Is Trump really the President?
The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution
A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative...
Nikola Tesla's Visions of the Future
The ONE secret that Nikola Tesla wrested from nature on that fateful day in a Budapest park was the design for his most famous and important invention: the Alternating Current Induction Motor. Before Teslas breakthrough, all electricity and motors used a direct current...
15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System
Here are 4 excellent articles about how to end police brutality and reform our broken criminal justice system. Together they offer a holistic and comprehensive approach that should get us well on our way towards the more just and egalitarian world we all long for. The key is...
4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System
Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Heres what we can do it fix it.
Pressed Into Silence: West Papua, Indonesia and World Press Freedom Day
As Indonesia hosts World Press Freedom Day, accusations of hypocrisy are growing louder. The Indonesian government is notorious for restricting journalism within the occupied territory of West Papua something that West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor and Cyril Payen of...
Most Colleges Prepare Us For a Future That Feels Wrong. Wouldn't It Be Amazing If Alternatives Were Widely Flourishing?
When I graduated from high school in 1985, college was the unquestionable next step for an intelligent, middle-class or upper-middle class young person. I entered an elite school not out of any particular ambition, but because the story that surrounded me said that this is...
How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence
Some readers will know that Ive contended that, despite its proponents assertions, antiracism is not a different sort of egalitarian alternative to a class politics butisa class politics itself: the politics of a strain of the professional-managerial class whose worldview and...
Can Bill Nye – or any other science show – really save the world?
Netflixs new talk show, Bill Nye Saves the World, debuted the night before people around the world joined together to demonstrate and March for Science. Many have lauded the timing and relevance of the show, featuring the famous Science Guy as its host, because it aims to...
Radical Hope: Life During the Climate Apocalypse
Global organizer Joshua Kahn Russell on the shifting terrain of climate justice, the need for spiritual perspective in the movement, and learning to love contradiction in the age of Bernie and Trump.
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 with an eye toward media schedules. Some actions are designed specifically to attract media...
The Reign of Idiots
Donald Trump. King of the horrifingly dumb and dangerously greedy.
DNC Admits They Are Under No Obligation to Offer Real Party Primaries
Well that didnt take much. After all the time and effort that those of us in the alternative media have been pouring into our attempts to show people that democracy does not exist in America, the political establishment has stepped forward and admitted it candidly with its...
Taboo - The East India Company and The True Horrors of Empire
When you left London the East India Company was a trading company, Tom Hardys troubled anti-hero James Delaney is warned in the second episode of the BBCs prime-time drama Taboo. Now it is God Almighty. Discussing the show before it aired, writer Stephen Knight referred to...
Chimps Could Soon Win Legal Personhood
Rights for many intelligent animals could hinge on a one-word edit in a law dictionary.
Limits to Growth: Policies to Steer the Economy Away from Disaster
If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around15 times largerthan it is now, in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). If the global...
Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community
How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of rules that I think such a community would have to follow. I hasten to say that I do not understand these rules as predictions; I am not interested in...
Transforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points
After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week trip to many sites and gatherings working on social, economic, and...
Protests Feed What They Oppose
A memetic observation about all the resistance marches since Trump took office the protests feed what they oppose. There is a finite amount of emotional energy available in the world the aggregate of all things that people are thinking about and acting on in any given...
Morning Star Rising
After 54 years of struggle under Indonesian rule, is freedom finally in sight for West Papua? Danny Chivers investigates.
It’s Time for a National $15 Minimum Wage
It has been 10 long years since Congress passed legislation to raise the minimum wage. Its time to raise it for all Americans.
Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?
Five Ways the Meat on Your Plate Is Killing the Planet
When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming the pollution, the waste, the miserable lives of billions of animals it is hard not to feel a twinge of guilt and conclude that we should eat less meat.
A New Browser Plug-In Lets You Access Millions of Scientific Papers for Free
Unpaywall is a web browser plug-in that brings free information to those who seek facts. The open-source service is disrupting traditional publishing by giving users access to peer-reviewed journal articles for free, and it's all totally legal.
How to Hug the Man That Killed Your Wife
Today, the man that
The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty. Standard...
Should We Bomb Syria (Or Afghanistan or Anywhere)? You’re Asking the Wrong Question
Critics of nonviolence say that option is the prerogative of the privileged. But actually its the other way around.
Arkansas Carries Out Double Execution Despite Concern Over 'Inhumane' Killing
'The sentences of Jack Jones and Marcel Williams are another heinous example of how the death penalty is applied to people with severe mental impairments and history of abuse'
Defend the Sacred: How Could the Peace Movement Prevail?
The fight for Standing Rock is over, at least for now. With the help of Donald Trump and the banks, the oil industry has imposed its agenda. The construction of the pipeline has been completed. Our prayers are with that handful of people who are still there, still standing...
The Anarchism of Blackness
The Democratic Party has led Black America down a dead end. The sooner we begin to understand that, the more realistically we will be able to organize against fascism.
Inside Unilever's Sustainability Myth
Unilever is regarded as a champion of sustainability. According to CEO Paul Polman, what benefits the company also benefits the earth. But when US competitor Heinz Kraft tried to take over the company, Unilever changed its short-term strategy. Dutch Investigative journalism...
New Technology Brings Star Wars-Style Desert Moisture Farming a Step Closer
Luke Skywalker wasnt just a farmer. In the original 1977 Star Wars film, the lead character was desperate to leave his home planet of Tatooine, where his family farmed moisture from the atmosphere using devices called vaporators. In the planets hot and dry desert landscape...
Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis
As we have entered a new century we face great crises both in society and in the natural world. Today we are not only still witnessing poverty, hunger and devastating wars: enormous environmental dislocations even threaten the stability of the planetary climate and vital...
If Workers Take Power
Instead of the small class of capitalists controlling society, we can make our own decisions about work and social life.
Decriminalize Immigration, Free Movement for All!
The United States recently experienced its first wave of large-scaleanti-immigration raidsfollowing the election of Donald Trump, who made the mass deportation of illegal immigrants a central part of his campaign. Although ICE officials claim that these raids targeted...
The House of the Nobodies — Where Everyone Is Welcome
La Casa de los Ningunosis an experimental community in the Bolivian capital city of La Paz, 12,000 feet up in the Andes Mountains. In a recent piece on the Casa, Sian Cowman explained the inspiration for the name, which also elegantly describes the Casas mission, Los Ningunos...
Overworked? Underpaid?
Were all feeling the squeeze. What can we do? ORGANIZE!
Facing up to Our Shadow Side With Compassion
Restorative justice makes real the fact that conflict, pain, suffering and crime are part of all our lives.
We Stand for All Sacred Life on Earth
All that is sacred in this world has become threatened by a pathological cultural system of wealth extraction and hoarding... Awaken and take a stand for life on Earth.
80 Eco-Conscious Documentaries to Honor Mother Earth
Pachamama, our dear Mother Earth, is 4.5billionyears old. She is home to an estimated 8.7 million species of life! This wondrous web of relationships is truly a gift to be a part of, and we can thank our growing and evolving Mother Earth for the eyes and mind we have to...
Gandhi's Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
From the Loi Travail to the French Elections
A Retrospective on Social Upheaval in France, 2015-2017
We Need Our Platforms to Be Real Democracies
For most of the last decade, Ive been a reporter, covering stories on how technology is reshaping public life, from debates about God to protests in the streets. One thing Ive noticed is that Internet culture has an odd way of using a really important word:democracy. When a...
The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right
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...
Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
If youre 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...
Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”
It has been said that were living throughThe Age of Loneliness.Loneliness is epidemic among young adults, and even more common among the elderly, with some reporting that the num
Distress, Status Wars and Immoral Behaviour: The Psychological Impacts of Inequality
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 thannine times as muchon average as the remainder, and in...
Russia-Bashing Helps Wall Street Democrats
National Democrats have used hyperbolic Russia-bashing to shield themselves from blame for Hillary Clintons defeat and to block progressives from pulling the party away from Wall Street, writes Norman Solomon.
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. governments claim that Syrian President Assad dropped a sarin bomb on a town in Idlib province, reports Robert Parry.
25 Cheat Sheets for Taking Care of Yourself Like a Damn Adult
Being a well-adjusted human has never been easier.
The Uncurious, Continuing, Stubborn Refusal to Grasp Bernie Sanders
The Democratic establishment and those in the media who support them keep making the same mistakes on Sanders and his movement.
Why V for Vendetta Author Alan Moore Says You Should Support Jeremy Corbyn
As an anarchist, as someone who believes neither in leaders nor the means by which we select them, Im obviously at something of a disadvantage when it comes to making political endorsements of any kind. That said, I wasnt born an anarchist.
The Day I Saved My Own Life
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...
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Fairly
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 toradicallytransform our current unsustainable consumer economy based on individual...
Descartes Was Wrong - A Person Is a Person Through Other Persons
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 thats axiomatic in...
Populism Isn't a Dirty Word - A Genuine Populism of the Left is Long Overdue
Populism sure is getting bad reviews. All manner of evil is getting laid at its door: racism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, jingoism and thats just the start. The conventional view is that populism is an irrational and impatient response to modern dilemmas that are best...
Cultural Evolution in the Anthropocene
Where humanity is going, there are no roadmaps. The terrain is unlike anything weve 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...
Circle of Life - How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything
By reframing the economy, Kate Raworths Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.