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A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians
A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians
Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.” Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Bruce E. Levine · 7,193 views · unrated
How a White Supremacist Became a Civil Rights Activist
How a White Supremacist Became a Civil Rights Activist
The story of a KKK leader’s transformation shows us that we need not live forever with the kind of violence we saw in Charleston this month.
Araz Hachadourian · 6,719 views · 75%
Queer Muslims Exist - and We Are in Mourning Too
Queer Muslims Exist - and We Are in Mourning Too
This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that
Samra Habib · 6,149 views · unrated
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System From Inside the Death Machine
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System From Inside the Death Machine
Free your mind, find your power, change the world
Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld · 5,526 views · unrated
Circumcision: The Whole Story 20 min
Circumcision: The Whole Story
Circumcision: The Whole story - is an informational video about the culture of circumcision. It explores the historical origins, the physical function of the foreskin, and commonly believed myths and scientific truths.
BarrieMidwives · 5,495 views · 88%
Ferguson Isn't about Black Rage Against Cops. It's White Rage Against Progress.
Ferguson Isn't about Black Rage Against Cops. It's White Rage Against Progress.
When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police k
Carol Anderson · 5,216 views · 100%
Why Anarchists and "Anarcho"-Capitalists Can't Be allies
Why Anarchists and "Anarcho"-Capitalists Can't Be allies
One things that crops up over and over when someone on the libertarian right notices the outright hostility of anarchists when he appropriates the “Anarchist” label for himself is the accusation of “harming the movement” by not being willing to look past differences and work...
A Division by Zer0 · 4,697 views · 44%
Why We Should Stop Using the Word "Activist"
Why We Should Stop Using the Word "Activist"
Contesting power isn’t a hobby or a subculture—it’s a collective project pervading all facets of our lives.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker · 4,684 views · 100%
Ethnic Notions 5 min
Ethnic Notions (trailer)
Ethnic Notions is Marlon Riggs' Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the...
4,535 views · 96%
What Is the Next Story? | Charles Eisenstein 15 min
What Is the Next Story? | Charles Eisenstein
Inspired by a Charles Eisenstein essay, crafted by Tonika Todorova and narrated by Charles.
Visceral Adventure · 4,416 views · unrated
It's All Too Easy to Switch off From Bad News – It's Dangerous Too
It's All Too Easy to Switch off From Bad News – It's Dangerous Too
The full horror of the Grenfell Tower fire in west London is still to emerge. Like millions of others, I watched live as TV breakfast reports showed the blaze in its intensity and eyewitnesses told of their devastating experiences and fury at those who allowed this to happen...
John Jewell · 4,038 views · unrated
The Pimps of War
The Pimps of War
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
Chris Hedges · 3,867 views · 88%
The Cult of Trump
The Cult of Trump
Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical...
Chris Hedges · 3,655 views · 79%
The Problem with Evil
The Problem with Evil
When we confront something we regard as “evil,” it poses a threat to the self-preservation of ego. We are so busy preserving our existence in the face of this threat that we cannot see the thing clearly at all. —Chögyam Trungpa Sometimes in Q&A sessions or internet...
Charles Eisenstein · 3,538 views · unrated
Embracing 'Radical Hope' in Our Fight to Save the Earth
Embracing 'Radical Hope' in Our Fight to Save the Earth
Radical hope is not just about determination and courage in the face of darkness, writes Paul Hoggett - it is also about love and a re-finding of all that is benign in the world. And this is the spirit we need to muster to confront the serious challenges that lie before us.
Paul Hoggett · 3,327 views · 88%
Human Kind
Human Kind
Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.
George Monbiot · 3,190 views · 100%
'This Is the Story of Power in This Country'
'This Is the Story of Power in This Country'
Institutionalized Racism and the Militarization of Police in Ferguson, MO Last week, after days of violent police rampages in Ferguson, Missouri, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Michigan) said the Senate will "review" the Defense Department program...
Nadia Prupis · 3,009 views · unrated
All Change or No Change?
All Change or No Change?
This is a story of power, but perhaps not the traditional kind. The kinds of power we are interested in are the deep currents.... the cultural forces that shape all of our lives at the deepest levels.
Martin Kirk, Jason Hickel and Joe Brewer · 2,892 views · 94%
What to Do When the World is on Fire
What to Do When the World is on Fire
In December of 2019, my best friend Kit took me and my partner to the place where she grew up, in the remote Thora Valley, in the pristine forested foothills of Eastern Australia’s Great Dividing Range. As we drove down Darkwood, the single road into the Thora, Kit told us...
Henry Coleman · 2,472 views · 100%
How Awe Makes Us Generous
How Awe Makes Us Generous
A new study finds that feeling small in nature makes us more generous to other humans.
Adam Hoffman · 2,398 views · 75%
Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest 6 min
Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest
Kindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human...
Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan · 2,278 views · 100%
The Nature of Ayahuasca 59 min
The Nature of Ayahuasca (2019)
Ayahausca is a traditional plant medicine from the Amazon used to treat a variety of physical and psychology illnesses and conditions. This documentary explores the use of the Ayahausca as a holistic medicine, challenging stigmas around its use and helping people become more...
2,264 views · 75%
The Triumph of Triviality
The Triumph of Triviality
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker · 2,170 views · 97%
Our Society Is Living a Massive Lie About the Threat of Climate Change -- It's Time to Wake Up
Our Society Is Living a Massive Lie About the Threat of Climate Change -- It's Time to Wake Up
Our society is living within a massive lie. The lie says, “Everything is fine and we should proceed with business as usual. We are not destroying our climate and, with it, our stability and our civilization. We are not committing passive suicide.”
Margaret Klein · 2,050 views · unrated
Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.
Chris Hedges · 1,918 views · unrated
The Longevity of Struggle: How to Prevent Burnout From Being in Action
The Longevity of Struggle: How to Prevent Burnout From Being in Action
Are you passionate about the work that you do? What are you doing to maintain that? Being in action for the causes you are passionate about demands a lot and feeling burnt out at times is a normal reaction. Understand that experience as your innermost self calling you to tune...
Sofia Marbach · 1,844 views · unrated
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step outside the self-help narrative and confront the system that created these conditions in the...
Tim Hjersted · 1,799 views · unrated
Beyond Body Image
Beyond Body Image
This thing we call female body-image - the relationship which women have to our own bodies - is, without doubt, in need of urgent attention. I know from my own deep exploration of the subject, that as a woman, I am unable to really separate my own sense of self from the...
Ayla Amano · 1,611 views · unrated
The Wall Is Not Beautiful
The Wall Is Not Beautiful
Donald Trump insists that the border wall he wants built will be nothing less than beautiful. He has assured us that the latest version, a series of steel slats topped by triangular spikes, will fulfill the non plus ultra of architectural design: it will be “totally effective...
Sandra Lubarsky · 1,299 views · unrated
The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
Chris Hedges · 1,017 views · 100%
Why Our Imagination for Alien Life Is so Impoverished
Why Our Imagination for Alien Life Is so Impoverished
It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around their stars. They beam interstellar greetings to us. We cannot be sure that, when our own...
Philip Ball · 1,004 views · unrated
Six Myths of Positive News Reporting Debunked
Six Myths of Positive News Reporting Debunked
Positive news reporting is often conceived as serving only as light relief or as a trivial distraction from the realities of the world. But as Jodie Jackson explains, there is a growing body of research emerging to suggest that these perceptions are unfounded
Jodie Jackson · 915 views · 62%
How We Understand the Crisis Is Part of the Crisis
How We Understand the Crisis Is Part of the Crisis
It was something I heard one dissident professor say when I was an undergraduate studying psychology in a Nigerian university. He didn’t quite say it; he whispered it. When the white men came, they brought us schools and the bible, he intoned. And then we gave them our own...
Bayo Akomolafe · 904 views · unrated
America Is a Banana Republic
America Is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
Chris Hedges · 895 views · unrated
Against Identity Politics
Against Identity Politics
Spectres, Joylessness, and the contours of ressentiment
Lupus Dragonowl · 855 views · 75%
Are Our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
Are Our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we use to help us judge of what is important to us in our lives. Some of our values form the core of who we are and change very little throughout our lives. Whilst some of our other values...
Terry Sexton · 734 views · 71%
Trump the God
Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.
Chris Hedges · 425 views · unrated
The Lies Americans Tell Themselves to Justify State Violence Against Migrants
The Lies Americans Tell Themselves to Justify State Violence Against Migrants
I posted a photo of Border Patrol agents pinning a man to the ground in a headlock – and the internet made up every excuse in the book to defend the assault.
Scott Hechinger · 381 views · 100%
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.
Bruce E. Levine · 1,146,733 views · 91%
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think
It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned -- and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted...
Johann Hari · 295,076 views · 94%
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
"I believe, inherently, that the structures of society are driving us mad. Though most of us believe ourselves to be fairly well-adjusted, healthy individuals, we are all patients in the asylum together now."
Tim Hjersted · 278,644 views · 94%
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
“In Wildness is the preservation of the World.” Thoreau says it in “Walking,” and Jack Turner, in his exquisite collection of essays, The Abstract Wild,  questions how many of us have any idea what it means.   Pe
Carol Black · 246,560 views · 93%
Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next
Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next
“Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great...
Joanna Macy · 188,331 views · 95%
Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School
Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School
We don't need no education. At least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers believe, a steady diet of standardized testing and indoor inactivity is choking the creativity right out of our kids. The...
Ben Hewitt · 149,987 views · 86%
Activists Plastered the Tube with Posters Telling People Their Jobs Are Bullshit
Activists Plastered the Tube with Posters Telling People Their Jobs Are Bullshit
This morning, many sleepy, grumpy, bloated people across the country returned to their jobs for the first time since before Christmas. Some of those people in London – the country's largest hub of early morning misery – were made to stop and consider the numb feeling inside...
Charlotte England · 119,481 views · 100%
If We Gave Men the Same Rape Advice We Give Women, Here's How Absurd It Would Sound
If We Gave Men the Same Rape Advice We Give Women, Here's How Absurd It Would Sound
Earlier this week, a group of male students at North Carolina State University introduced Undercover Colors, a new line of nail polish designed to change color when it comes into contact with date rape drugs. While many have praised the young entrepreneurs, some anti-rape...
Julianne Ross · 90,663 views · 91%
The Problem With Society Isn't Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled
The Problem With Society Isn't Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled
A lot of people reacted to my comment on Facebook the other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. I’m asked, What is the cause of greed? First I’ll say what I think greed is: Greed is the insatiable
Charles Eisenstein · 75,724 views · 94%
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
What can we do to create a culture where none of our children grow up to become killers?
Tim Hjersted · 45,655 views · 91%
The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD
The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD
One psychologist argues that we should consider people with ADHD to be highly imaginative people rather than people with a learning disability.
Angus Chen and Mythili Rao · 39,876 views · 88%
7 Ways to Support Friends When They're Mentally Unwell
7 Ways to Support Friends When They're Mentally Unwell
Most of us will experience a mental health difficulty like depression, anxiety or addiction during our lives. And at some point, most of us will have a friend or family member who is mentally unwell.
Meg John Barker · 37,858 views · 81%
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
We can cultivate empathy throughout our lives, says Roman Krznaric—and use it as a radical force for social transformation.
Roman Krznaric · 37,497 views · 88%
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there were ways to find out if you wanted to. Government-controlled schooling didn't eliminate dumbness - in fact, we...
John Taylor Gatto · 36,816 views · 100%
"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame
"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame
A five-month-old baby is lying in his mother's arms. He is close to sleep, then wakes and begins to cry. His mother tells him that he should stop being a naughty boy, and that she will be cross with him if he doesn't sleep.
Robin Grille and Beth Macgregor · 34,436 views · 75%
How Political Mind Control Works
How Political Mind Control Works
The illusion of power IS a kind of real power. There is a lesson in this for the majority of humanity.
Joe Brewer · 32,481 views · 95%
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
London, May 2009.  A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Rutger Bregman · 27,717 views · 95%
3 Destructive Things You Learned in School Without Realizing It
3 Destructive Things You Learned in School Without Realizing It
It was high school. I was 16, and I was pissed off. My English teacher gave us a creative writing assignment: write anything about being in high school. Anything.
Mark Manson · 22,959 views · 88%
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.
Films For Action · 20,703 views · 92%
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
One "piece of the oppressor" that I have found in myself during my inner activist journeys is my use of shame as a method of engaging with the world's problems. Having learned that "shame" is a tool that has been used by the world's oppressors for so long, I strive not to use...
Tim Hjersted · 20,145 views · 100%
We Need Ecstasy and Opium in Place of Prozac and Xanax
We Need Ecstasy and Opium in Place of Prozac and Xanax
What can doctors do to ease emotional pain? The physicians of ancient and medieval times found many plants and plant-derived substances (ie, drugs) that soothed mental as well as physical ills. Rarely did they draw a line between the psychological and physiological benefits...
Marc Lewis and Shaun Shelly · 19,431 views · unrated
The Abolition of Work
The Abolition of Work
No one should ever work.
Bob Black · 19,099 views · 94%
5 Lies About Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell You
5 Lies About Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell You
Picture this: you hurt yourself, and you go to the doctor to talk about knee surgery. What would you think if your doctor was required — by law — to tell you that the operation would increase your chance of bone cancer? Or that repairing your torn ligament would increase your...
Meredith Clark · 16,004 views · unrated
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
"President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon..." - Malcolm X, December 1, 1963 "Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle… you are here because you are real men and all real men like...
Colin Jenkins · 14,432 views · 88%
The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World
The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World
In order to respond adequately, first we may need to mourn
Per Espen Stoknes · 12,962 views · 75%
We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively
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 · 11,313 views · 88%
Why Women – Including Feminists – Are Still Attracted to 'Benevolently Sexist' Men
Why Women – Including Feminists – Are Still Attracted to 'Benevolently Sexist' Men
If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?
Pelin Gül and Tom R. Kupfer · 11,258 views · 69%
The 10 Revolutionary Keys to Saving Humanity and Healing the Planet
The 10 Revolutionary Keys to Saving Humanity and Healing the Planet
The Awakening of Humanity Occasionally in the course of human events, a new worldview emerges that transforms society. It happened when Jesus’ disciples were inspired by his life to believe in radical transformation of the person and theworld through love. It occurred in the...
Barbara Marx Hubbard · 10,716 views · 100%
New Forms Arising To Remake Society In a More Inclusive Way
New Forms Arising To Remake Society In a More Inclusive Way
Over the last two decades, the Internet has been a laboratory for social innovation. One of the most unexpected collective discoveries has been the existence of another mode of organization to achieve large-scale co-ordination. This mode relies neither on the market, where...
Felix Stalder · 9,752 views · 88%
Overcoming the Shock Doctrine
Overcoming the Shock Doctrine
Lately, we’ve been talking about the techniques of manipulation used by the government and mass media, regarding the privatization of public education, and all public benefits. In these first months of legislature, the better part of this manipulation has been aimed at...
Soy Pública · 9,310 views · 100%
No, You Can't ‘Be the Change’ Alone
No, You Can't ‘Be the Change’ Alone
Positive thinking may be useless or even damaging, but negative thinking is unlikely to change the world for the better.
Alessandra Pigni · 8,730 views · 100%
The Great Flood
The Great Flood
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges · 8,668 views · 100%
Mondragon: The Loving Society That Is Our Inevitable Future
Mondragon: The Loving Society That Is Our Inevitable Future
My first visit to Mondragon was in 1979. I had been searching the globe for years for a Relationship Age society which was also fully integrated into the modern world. My initial reaction to Mondragon was utter amazement. I had never expected to find such a mature and...
Terry Mollner · 8,381 views · 92%
How to Find Your Soul Tribe in the Digital Age
How to Find Your Soul Tribe in the Digital Age
Finding and connecting with your soul tribe is more important than ever—not just for connection but also to thrive in our modern society
Al Jeffery · 8,351 views · 75%
10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won
10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won
The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
Daniel Hunter · 8,165 views · unrated
A Marxist Critique of Identity Politics
A Marxist Critique of Identity Politics
A Q&A with Asad Haider, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, on an ideology fracturing the left.
Kelton Sears · 8,004 views · 100%
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
While the Rupert Murdoch scandal is justifiably front-page news, there is a much wider problem with the mainstream media. Purchasing ReportersFamed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says the CIA has already b
Washington's Blog · 7,781 views · 100%
Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence
Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence
We can all feel it — the mental disease of late-stage capitalism is causing widespread depression, an epidemic of suicides, chronic feelings of guilt and shame, and a general malaise of powerlessness.
Joe Brewer · 7,404 views · 88%
The Great Global Slowdown: What’s Next?
The Great Global Slowdown: What’s Next?
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
Paul Mason · 7,389 views · 94%
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000...
Emily Esfahani Smith · 6,753 views · 75%
The Conspiracy Myth
The Conspiracy Myth
The other day I was amused to read a critique of The Coronation in which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet conspiracy theorist. He was so persuasive that I myself almost believed it.
Charles Eisenstein · 6,502 views · 0%
What Are the Six Basic Human Needs?
What Are the Six Basic Human Needs?
Are your emotional and psychological needs being fulfilled?
Chip Richards · 6,399 views · unrated
Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics
Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics
It’s time we put economics into some sort of physical scientific context that makes sense.
Richard Register · 5,894 views · unrated
Ecocities: Connecting Peace on Earth with Peace with Earth
Ecocities: Connecting Peace on Earth with Peace with Earth
This might seem a stretch but when John Muir said everything in the universe is connected to everything else he was serious. He was speaking of the ecology of natural systems in the broadest sense – and human ecologies too, no doubt. Ecology in both senses has to do with...
Richard Register · 5,376 views · 100%
Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to an al-Qaeda chief spiked?
Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to an al-Qaeda chief spiked?
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as "the most gagged person in the history of the United States" by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations? A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary...
Nafeez Ahmed · 4,914 views · 75%
Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
“The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can’t justify it, it’s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don’t really understand anarchism as being much more than that.” —Noam...
Bruce E. Levine · 4,708 views · unrated
How They Get Away With It
How They Get Away With It
This article will not attempt to prove that 911 is a USGIC (USG Intelligence Community) domestic covert operation, but it will show how such operations are covered up and disguised from their immediate victims, the people of the United States.
Michael Green · 4,668 views · unrated
Why the Macho Sludge Peddled by 'American Sniper' Is Really Cowardice
Why the Macho Sludge Peddled by 'American Sniper' Is Really Cowardice
Martin Luther King Jr. exemplifies real bravery in "Selma." Well, you can beat on your chest / Hell, any monkey can. —Bruce Springsteen, “Real Man” In an essay on Theodore Roosevelt, Gore Vidal classified the former president and known tough guy as an “American sissy.” He...
David Masciotra · 4,515 views · 100%
Parents Need to Start Talking to Their Tweens About the Risks of Porn
Parents Need to Start Talking to Their Tweens About the Risks of Porn
Editor’s note: This article includes references to graphic sexual content that may be inappropriate for some readers.
Gail Dines · 4,491 views · 100%
Development in the Ecological Age
Development in the Ecological Age
Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,434 views · 100%
The Coming Great Transition
The Coming Great Transition
Our global civilization is currently undergoing a tremendous set of transitions that will ultimately result in the dismantling of much of the way that we currently live and the construction of a new “civilization model”. Over the next several months, I will be laying out many...
Jordan Hall · 4,355 views · unrated
Deliver Us From Venus and Mars: Why Aren’t We Free From Gender Stereotypes Yet?
Deliver Us From Venus and Mars: Why Aren’t We Free From Gender Stereotypes Yet?
Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes, because we lap them up. Gavin Evans reflects on why we are still so susceptible.
Gavin Evans · 4,287 views · unrated
The Mother of All Rules Governing US Media: Censor & Cover-Up US Government Criminality
The Mother of All Rules Governing US Media: Censor & Cover-Up US Government Criminality
In January 2008 The Sunday Times published the second report of its four-part investigative series concerning the U.S. government’s direct role in international terrorism networks and organized crime involving nuclear espionage: For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets .
Sibel Edmonds · 4,194 views · 88%
A Circle of Gifts
A Circle of Gifts
Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any more? There are many reasons – the layout of suburbia, the...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,145 views · unrated
Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Future of America: Using Science to Progress Past Tribalism
Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Future of America: Using Science to Progress Past Tribalism
Will progressives accept the empirical data behind the efficacy of nonviolence?
Angela Tripp · 4,112 views · 88%
We Know Nature Makes Us Happier. Now Science Says It Makes Us Kinder Too
We Know Nature Makes Us Happier. Now Science Says It Makes Us Kinder Too
New studies show being in nature may increase your willingness to be generous, trusting, and helpful toward others.
Jill Suttie · 4,057 views · 100%
Beyond Patriarchy: A Libertarian Model of the Family
Beyond Patriarchy: A Libertarian Model of the Family
The Family: Friend or Foe?
Roderick T. Long · 4,055 views · 38%
The War on Suffering
The War on Suffering
The war on germs is just one expression of a medical system based on control. Control, in turn, arises from our sense of self, that we are separate beings in an alien and indifferent universe. Not being part of any purpose beyond ourselves, naturally we seek to maximize the...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,038 views · 100%
Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Qualities like gender, ethnicity, and nationality tend to define us more than being human. What happens when we try to identify with all of humanity?
Juliana Breines · 4,021 views · 100%
Bulldoze the Business School
Bulldoze the Business School
Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or “surplus”) – as...
Martin Parker · 3,936 views · unrated
Former Police Chief: Put Down the Big Stick
Former Police Chief: Put Down the Big Stick
I keep thinking since the horrific police assassinations in Dallas that we’ve been here before. It’s not that so many police officers have been summarily executed. It’s that a palpable tension still exists between police and black people in our country, despite the efforts of...
David C. Couper · 3,714 views · 75%
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser · 3,572 views · 100%
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