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How industrial-scale farming is actually becoming anti-science.
Vandana Shiva
Social movements should take heed of social psychology, argues Kelvin Mason
Kelvin Mason
'There’s a perception that whiteness is working for white people. It’s not. Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated.'
Quinn Norton
My son Seamus wears a dress.
Frida Berrigan
It's official: the planet is entering a "sixth great extinction" that even the most conservative estimates show is killing off species at rates far higher than the previous five mass die-offs—and humanity is both at fault...and at risk.
A joint study by scientists from...
Nadia Prupis
Trees are considered sacred in many cultures. Tree worship, in one form or another, has been practiced almost universally by ancient peoples in every corner of the globe.
Jocelyn Mercado
Imagine a Collective Arena for all issues facing The Populous. An e-forum. Think WikiPolicy, with a Collective Voting Platform.
Duke Johnson
Joint statement signed by 45 US military veterans urges drone operators to follow their consciences and say 'no' to surveillance and assassination missions
Sarah Lazare
We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.
Samuel Alexander
Regulated private capitalism. State capitalism. Socialism. These three systems are entirely different from each other. We need to understand the differences between them to move beyond today's dysfunctional economies. With confidence waning in whether modern private...
Richard D. Wolff
Donald Trump has made an entire career out of being an odious bile merchant. So it came as no surprise that during his presidential campaign announcement this little turd came plopping out of his mouth:
A new kind of shop is aiming to transform the future of retail by lending rather than selling items and fostering more meaningful connections with the things we use
Lucy Purdy
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
Politics, they say, is the art of compromise. Candidates, in order to succeed, have to soften their views. Candidates have to make their views more palatable to the general public and the corporate and political establishment. That’s what they tell us anyway. Maybe it’s true...
Dear White Supremacy,
First of all you are not really that supreme.
While throughout history White Supremacy it must be admitted you have achieved some very dominant positions. These positions have been gained mostly through force or some biological agent such as disease...
Lupe Fiasco
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
Our current Western worldview is based on never-ending development, an emphasis on the rights of the...
Jocelyn Mercado
Unless you're on long retreat in a Himalayan cave, it's becoming more difficult to overlook the fact that our world is beset by interacting ecological, economic and social crises. Climate breakdown, species extinction, a dysfunctional economic system, corporate domination of...
David Loy
1. They aren’t going to just throw down.
Instead, they’re committed to helping one another overcome problems and conflicts. Simply being mad at the person won’t resolve anything.
2. They focus on the problem, not its embodiment.
They keep in mind that a relationship is...
Higher Perspective
I was a very poor 16-year-old so, as you can imagine, having a car was out of the question. Wherever I needed to go, I walked -- which was not always pleasant on a Florida summer day.
It was on one of those hot days, while walking to the corner store, that a red truck slowed...
Benjamin O'Keefe
Every age has its protest music, from blues to rock and roll, folk to punk. Today hip hop is leading the charge, challenging the staus quo and shining a light on the injustices that dominate our social landscape. There's also an additional element to modern protest music, the...
The latest evidence shows with a high degree of confidence that we are currently undergoing Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction Event.
Bob Novella
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" informally outlines the most striking qualities of fascistic theory and practice. It remains one of the most popular tool-kits for intellectuals in discovering where the barbarity of fascism might once again materialize, for Eco was...
Jeremy Brunger
The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau
Remember, it’s not the planet that needs saving, it’s us. #savethehumans
Subvertising: noun, the practice of making parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make an alternative statement.
You can make everything from Deodorant to Sunscreen using Coconut Oil as the main ingredient. We have compiled ten different recipes in this Infographic as a guide for homemade personal care products.
Health Perch
An act of terrorism unfolded on American soil Wednesday night when Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Julia Craven
White Supremacy is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations, and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of the European continent, for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth...
Elizabeth Martínez
Dear friends, We don't need more conversations about race, we need conversations about white supremacy and how to end it.
Clare Bayard
This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body.
Thich Nhat Hanh
'The depth of indigenous knowledge rooted in the long inhabitation of a particular place offers lessons that can benefit everyone, from educator to scientist, as we search for a more satisfying and sustainable way to live on this planet.'
Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
What makes Pope Francis and his 183-page encyclical so radical isn’t just his call to urgently tackle climate change. It’s the fact he openly and unashamedly goes against the grain of dominant social, economic and environment policies.
While the Argentina-born pope is a very...
Steffen Böhm
In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are still some things you can do to keep your communications private—and not all of it is high-tech.
Julia Angwin
An extract from Pope Francis’s 180 page encyclical on climate change, the environment and inequality
Pope Francis
For 22 years Positive News has pioneered solutions-based journalism. As they get ready to hand ownership to their readers and journalists with the launch of their community share offer, they look back at their content and reveal the most viewed online stories.
Click on the...
Positive News
I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green Party candidate, and going home. Any further energy invested in these elections...
Chris Hedges
In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.
George Monbiot
If it makes sense to feel hopeless about the future, maybe what we need right now is some 'profound nonsense.'
Tim Hjersted
“I think the way western education has grown over the last few centuries, especially with the rise of industrialization, was basically not to create human beings fully equipped to deal with life and all its problems, independent citizens able to exercise their decisions and...
Carol Black
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you haven’t, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue.
Rob Greenfield
It's a vicious circle of hypocrisy: Americans dependent on the safety net are urged to "get a job" by the same free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net.
Theft, Part 1: The Average U.S. Household Pays About $400 for Safety Net...
Paul Buchheit
Corporate propaganda has convinced the populace that government alone is to blame for our problems, rather than recognizing the complete fusion of corporate power and government decision-making.
Dennis Weiser
Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises, militarism, the rise of the surveillance state, and a dysfunctional political system can all be traced to its normal operations.
Faramarz Farbod
"By releasing this report, the IMF has shown that 'trickle-down' economics is dead; you cannot rely on the spoils of the extremely wealthy to benefit the rest of us."
Jon Queally
There are two types of vehicles that strike a particular fear into the heart of London's neighbourhoods: police vans and Foxtons Minis. Synonymous with gentrification, the Foxtons car represents the vanguard of the housing crisis, expanding sky-high rents into fresh...
Ben Beach
"The whole essence of media is not about information. It’s about power.”
“Today the media is, as the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays described, ‘an invisible government.’ It’s in the government. It’s in the government’s vested interests. The Prime Minister is a PR...
Real Media
1. “Capitalism is the accumulation of resources by means of exploitation in the production and sale of commodities for profit. Capitalist exploitation is an unequal exchange wherein capitalists extract income from economic exchanges solely because they hold legal title to...
Glen T. Martin
Since the day you emerged into this bizarre, sparkling universe, you’ve been conditioned to think in certain ways.
Jordan Bates
At the Repair and Service Center in Vienna, the long-term unemployed retrain to be "mechatronic engineers" and repair electronic devices. Founder Sepp Eisenriegler tirelessly initiates networks, projects, and cafés—all dedicated to the art of fixing things.
Ute Scheub
The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?
John Vidal
Instead of imposing devastating austerity measures and bailing out its banks, Iceland let its banks go bust and focused on social welfare policies. It has now repaid 85 percent of U.K. claims, and the Icelandic finance minister announced recently that all will be settled by...
Roisin Davis
There is a war going on right now between those who are working to protect the commons and the hard-core capitalists, who are working to privatize our economy, culture, ecology, environment and government.
John Atcheson
This pamphlet gives an excellent analysis and debunking of conspiracy theories and proposes a practical alternative for emancipation.
Will, Chino, Saudade, Mamos
A movement is taking over America - the movement against inequality.
When street artist Louis Masai Michel went on a trip to South Africa to paint endangered animals, he came back a man on a mission.
Brandon Siewert
Film series tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world
Christopher McLeod
The transition from a capitalist to a cooperative economy could be one of the defining achievements of the 21st century.
Guy Dauncey
The Robin Hood Army are taking on food waste in India and Pakistan by redistributing food waste from restaurants and weddings and giving it to the hungry
Dimple Vijaykumar
Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez has been campaigning since he was six. He explains why young people are not afraid to take on the fossil fuel industry
Lilah Raptopoulos