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There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system
Jon Queally
The modern 'throwaway culture' was born in response to the needs of industrial capital. To move beyond it, we must rediscover the beauty of repair.
Steven Gorelick
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Danny Dorling presents evidence that greater equality benefits everyone, rich and poor – and argues that it can offer us all political hope.
Danny Dorling
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Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain want Al Jazeera - including AJ+ - to be shut down. Here’s what Al Jazeera journalists think of that.
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Today's Trews reacts to events at the G20 and asks whether anything will actually change as a result.
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Embrace paradox. Embrace the unknown. Surrender who you think you are into what is.
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Lancashire residents and councilors took part in a 13-person lock-on at fracking company Cuadrilla's flagship fracking site at Preston New Road. The action is part of the Rolling Resistance, a month of taking creative action against Cuadrilla and the fracking supply chain...
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Who are you? Good question. Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the "self", and how what you believe to be your true nature may actually just be patterns you've fallen into. Puett's latest book is "The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the...
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The economy is much more than a series of transactions: It’s about our relationships, who and what we think we are, and our view on the meaning of life itself. Our current global economy leaves too many of us struggling, and it is harming Earth’s ecosystems.
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This stunning short film is a companion piece to the album 'Black America Gain' by Common, directed by "Selma" cinematographer Bradford Young.
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Tens of thousands descend on Hamburg, challenging policies put forth by Trump-type nationalists and Europe's neoliberals elites
Jessica Corbett
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A “special” beech tree kept under observation for a whole year by a concealed eye, which never closes. Four seasons unfolding around a crossroad of smells, signals and messages left behind by the extraordinary wildlife of the Apennines. What you see here is just a small part...
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Curing unemployment is a growth market for psychologists. Job Centres are becoming medical centres, claimants are becoming patients, and unemployment is being redefined as a psychological disorder.
Felicity Callard and Robert Stearn
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This is the first six videos of a series of 22 short videos that explore the interrelated crises of the twenty-first century, and what we as citizens, students, and community leaders can do to respond to them. The videos can be watched individually (and will be released...
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Achieving comprehensive social change requires radical alteration of everything, including education. But most of the attempts to reform the educational system are limited. What is needed is a democratization of education through the introduction of alternative egalitarian...
Yavor Tarinski
Among other things, whiteness is a kind of solipsism. From right to left, whites consistently and successfully reroute every political discussion to their identity. The content of this identity, unsurprisingly, is left unexamined and undefined. It is the false foundation of...
Asad Haider
For the past few months we have published a series of posts on New Compass introducing social ecology, discussing possible future environmental scenarios, studying the crisis of capitalis
Jonathan Korsár and Svante Malmström
A Q&A with Asad Haider, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, on an ideology fracturing the left.
Kelton Sears
By directly challenging white supremacy, racism and imperialism, Colin Kaepernick is making himself a household name for all the right reasons. And the NFL, its billionaire owners and the corporate errand boys of sports journalism simply cannot stand it.
Eric Draitser
Contesting power isn’t a hobby or a subculture—it’s a collective project pervading all facets of our lives.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
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The author of 'No Is Not Enough' says we must tackle our “inner Trump” in order to create a better world. Part of a 20min interview with OpenDemocracy, which you can watch in full here.
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US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows
Tom Secker and Matthew Alford
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Berta Cáceres, winner of the International Goldman Prize for the Environment and possibly the most well-known land rights activist in the world, was murdered in her home a year ago. Berta's message to the world was that no one is beyond reach. Far from silencing her and her...
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Two decades after the UK handed it back to China, President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for the first time to celebrate the anniversary. The ‘one country, two systems’ principle was designed to preserve democratic freedoms in the wealthy former colony. After troubled years of...
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Today America celebrates its liberation from the shackles of the British Crown and the beginning of its transition into corporatist oligarchy, which is a lot like celebrating your lateral promotion from housekeeping to laundry staff. Fireworks will be set off, hot dogs will...
Caitlin Johnstone
'Is not nationalism—that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder—one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?'
Howard Zinn
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Michael Wesch meets up with
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The Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, California is dedicated to "educating this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of capitalism." Visitors are asked to reflect on capitalism as if they resided in a post-capitalist era.
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Oil companies estimate that 100 billion barrels of oil lie beneath the south of England. But a new breed of activists is opposing any drilling. Claire Marshall has been living with some of the protesters, who built a large wooden fort on a proposed drill site at Leith Hill in...
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The world's largest humanitarian crisis is not in Syria. It's in Yemen.
So says the United Nations, highlighting the grave consequences of a conflict that has left 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian or protection assistance, including 10.3 million who require...
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Roadkill harms animals, endangers drivers, and costs billions of dollars every year. In Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, wildlife scientist Tony Clevenger and other researchers have proven that constructing overpasses and underpasses for animals decreases roadkill and...
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When his father died in 2011, Jay Wilde took responsibility of running the family farm. For years he has been concerned about the welfare of his cows and the environmental impact of beef farming. Today he’s doing something about it.
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“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.”
Julian Cola
When Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate deal, the world reacted with outrage. And rightly so: the agreement represents a remarkable achievement in international diplomacy – a breakthrough after 20 years of failed climate negotiations. But as we...
Jason Hickel
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For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on his philosophy of killing. Footage from one of Grossman’s seminars is juxtaposed with stark, brutal images of police brutality—including the...
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Gary Oak recently returned from Syrian Kurdistan where he was a volunteer in the International Freedom Battalion. Here he talks about the revolution in Rojava.
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Food is your medicine - Joe's food garden is in the Western Cape in South Africa. Thank you Joe for being such an inspiration you are an incredibly wise man. We agree working with the soil is the best connection.
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This matrix parody is kind of mind blowing.
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There's been a lot of talk about where the Baby Boomer generation will live as they age. Several interesting, sharing-based housing alternatives such cohousing and senior villages have emerged as potential options. But what about all the businesses that Baby Boomers own? What...
Cat Johnson
Presently, most of the people in our culture believe that competition, possessiveness, and jealousy are all acceptable responses when we love someone. But is this really true, independent of culture or custom?
Pierre Fulton was black. He was poor. He had struggled his entire life. He had been in trouble with the law as a youth. Armed robbery, drug distribution, and gun possession were all on his record. It was now 2015 and Pierre was thirty. He had turned his life around. He got a...
R.L. Stephens
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Official music video for Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) by K'naan featuring Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product.
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Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or ‘Western’ imagination? Open One Thousand and One Nights – a collection of folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, from the 8th to the 13th centuries...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
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The FCC is planning to repeal the strong net neutrality rules that we fought so hard to get in 2015. Why do we care? Vimeo is the home to so many makers, watchers, and all-around internet video lovers. Net neutrality makes sure there is room for creativity and equal access...
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What will be the lasting legacy of Grenfell Tower? Co-founder of the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign Ishmahil Blagrove shares his thoughts.
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Thanks to David Pakman. Get the book: http://www.thenewhumanrightsmovement.com
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Many different flowers are growing beautifully and strongly in this world. Taking their roots in the earth, sprouting, blooming, pollinated by birds and insects, living on in spite of rain, wind and storms. They pass on the baton of life, rebirth and decay. Everything in a...
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Zero Waste Shops are opening all over Europe. Dozens have opened and many more are coming. Each Zero Waste shop is unique. In Zurich, Switzerland, FOIFI launched 2 months ago and is making a huge splash. FOFI is both a bulk grocery store and café. You fill reusable containers...
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Was Britain’s EU referendum hijacked by the American alt-right using a technique known as psychographics? Gabriel Gatehouse reports on the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.
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A mesmerizing compilation of clips from every single day of the 45th President's first 100 days. Like the films Alex is forced to watch in A Clockwork Orange - this breakneck, experimental documentary is a barrage of the media chaos that reshaped our reality. Each day ticks...
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Individual actions can amount to change at a large scale. In his talk, Rob explains how this applies to environmentally friendly living. His extreme activism initiatives, such as the “Trash Me” campaign he ran in New York in 2016, are meant to awaken our consciousness on the...
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The Supreme Court allowed a partial version of Trump's executive order banning travel from 6 Muslim-majority countries to go into effect this summer. But the full order could have a lasting impact on how the US treats refugees.
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Humans aren't rational creatures, and here's what we can do about it.
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"We'll be ready," said the ACLU in response to the announcement
Jake Johnson
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
Yessenia Funes
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Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no bigger than a thumbnail has baffled scientists with her web of steel.
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Full speech transcript https://medium.com/p/77bcb3746378
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Having lost her majority, and with complicated Brexit negotiations and fields of wheat on her doorstep, Theresa May is determined to "get on with the job of government" (and to seek the Holy Grail).
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Introducing a Global Network of Municipalist Cities
Richard D. Bartlett
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This is the introduction to Kate Tempest's performance at Glastonbury 2017, in which she echoes British Prime Minister Theresa May's words back at her, while referencing Conservative cuts, the Grenfell fire and much more.
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On March 8, a crowd of over 50 protesters in Geneva, New York, (population 13,261) occupied the office of Republican Congressman Tom Reed. The occupation was part of a women’s strike organized in connection with International Women’s Day by the Geneva Women’s Assembly.
Liberation Staff
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. —Goethe
Charles Eisenstein
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The Conservative Party contracted a secretive call centre during the election campaign which may have broken data protection and election laws, a Channel 4 News investigation has found.
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This sermon was given at the ECM in Lawrence, KS in April 2015.
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Happy father’s day to the fathers, and to our fathers’ fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and all the way back to Grandfather Sky. Past there to before there were fathers, because all was just ONE.
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
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President Trump loves pipelines, and he says everyone else does too. So he shouldn't have a problem with one being built through one of his buildings, right?
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Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated short film, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
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There are few roads in Lesotho. There are even fewer mountain bikers. Here the horse is supreme and the myriad horse trails that have been carved through its steep and rugged mountains are its lifeblood. Horsemen ply these trails, just as they have for generations, riding...
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With barely enough shelter to house even 11% of the homeless people on its main island, Hawaii lawmakers struggle for solutions amid rising costs of living and low wages. But one group of homeless Hawaiians has taken matters into their own hands, forming a highly organized...
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Decades ago, there was a local campaign of resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes, in western France. This resistance culminated in the establishment of a self-organized autonomous zone, known as the ZAD. Over 40,000 people take part...
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In austerity Britain, can justice and accountability be served for the victims of the Grenfell fire? Or are our laws already too much shaped to the needs of the business class?
Steve Tombs and David Whyte
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What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that while we may not always have control over the events affecting us, we can have control over...
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On Sunday, June 18th, 2017, Tai Amri Spann-Ryan gave a powerful and moving sermon at the Lawrence, KS Unitarian Fellowship in celebration of Juneteenth and the on-going struggle for liberation. The talk audibly left the crowd speechless for several seconds afterward. It is...
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In the wake of Katrina, New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward was one of the few neighborhoods where relief came slowly. Less than 25% of its pre-Katrina population has returned and many houses have been abandoned or mowed down. As a result, the USDA officially listed the...
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New York City’s Fresh Air Fund has sent city kids, most of them low-income, to suburban and rural neighborhoods for two-week summer vacations for the past 140 years. Originally intended to restore malnourished, sickly and white immigrant children to health, the fund expanded...
Tobin Miller Shearer
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In 1991, arborist David Milarch had a near-death experience that inspired a personal quest to reforest our planet. He would harvest the genetics of the world's oldest trees, initiate tree-planting efforts to combat climate change, and help restore the planet’s health...
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In response to the police shooting death of Philando Castile, Trevor shares his own experience as a black man facing law enforcement discrimination in America.
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After the Finsbury Park mosque attack, we asked a white person to explain themselves.
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In 2015 the AJ+ team followed groups of refugees as they made their way across Europe. Now, 2 years later, Dena Takruri catches up with some of the people she met to find out how they are getting on.
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It’s routine for right-wing outlets like Fox to smear progressive activists under the guise of “news” coverage. But why the New York Times? And why the special venom for Bernie Sanders?
Norman Solomon
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John Waters' rollicking commencement speech at The Rhode Island School of Design offered up some good one-liners and a few pearls of wisdom, though phrased, quite naturally, in an irreverent way.
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In today's Trews I read from my recent blog about the Grenfell tragedy, which you can read here.
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Moby says, “working on ‘In This Cold Place’ and ‘Are You Lost In the World Like Me?’ with Steve Cutts has been a creative highlight for me. He's such a great animator and activist, and I'm so happy he agreed to make these two videos.”
Last week, Moby & The Void Pacific Choir...
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Google is attempting to bring the cultural and spiritual dimensions of Uluru to its Street View platform. To do this, they have created an interactive, audiovisual guided tour, narrated by traditional owner Sammy Wilson and with song and music by Anangu elder Reggie Uluru.
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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
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." This quote, which has often been misattributed to Sinclair Lewis, is wise in recognizing the authoritarian potential of both nationalism and organized religion. In slight contrast, Professor...
Colin Kaepernick took a courageous and principled stand last season by kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games. This was done in response to a society that continues to systematically, culturally, and institutionally devalue black lives. This devaluation is...
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Today in the corporate media, Venezuela’s economic problems are used to paint the country as a failed state, in need of foreign-backed regime change.
To get the Bolivarian government’s side of the crisis, Abby Martin interviews Venezuela’s Minister of Economic Planning...
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Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle alongside the 'localist' youth. As elections loom...
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The first and last rule of capitalism is this: Make More Capital. And it's killing us. But we can build better systems. There are plenty of options. We can change the rules.
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"Austerity is a matter of life and death." Rapper Lowkey watched people die with his own eyes, this is what he thinks should happen to the criminals responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Roughly 30 per cent of Mongolians live nomadically or semi-nomadically, and the region’s history of nomadism has left an indelible mark on the country’s culture. Easily portable traditional huts known as gers (more commonly referred to by their Russian name, yurts) are still...
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Residents of Notting Hill say they are proud of the community, who have come out in force to help those who have lost everything in the Grenfell Tower fire. Locals worked tirelessly to provide food, water and clothing. However, with the search for friends and relatives...
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This Government Must Be Held Responsible
Mona Kamal
Liza Bramlett was a slave. She lived on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, during the 19th century. White men raped her repeatedly throughout her life. They traded her body amongst themselves in exchange for calves and piglets. In the end, Liza gave birth to 23...
R.L. Stephens
Does your phone, the TV and advertising demand your attention everywhere you look? All this stimulation is triggering a social crisis, says writer Matthew Crawford. He talks to Ed Cumming about how to reconnect with reality
Ed Cumming
It’s time to ensure that no American has to worry about where they and their families will sleep tonight, says housing consultant James Stockard.
James Stockard
No one is naturally or genetically oppressive; no human being is born as an oppressor. No one is naturally or genetically destined to be oppressed; no one is born to be oppressed.
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
The latest entry in panics over social justice comes from my hometown, where some folks have created a list shaming restaurants and foodcarts that were owned by white people but sold “non-European international cuisine.” One of the more annoying restaurants on that list...
William Gillis