Noam Chomsky's Roadmap to a Just World: People Reanimating Democracy

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 · 4,374 views · 75%

Malayasia: Bidayuh villagers set fire to logging camps, 13 heavy machines

Residents from 10 Bidayuh villagers this week set fire to five logging camps and thirteen heavy machines in a stark protest against logging activities on their land, in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.

Intercontinental Cry · 4,363 views · unrated

Beyond Capitalism: Not-for-Profit Business Ethos Motivates Sustainable Behaviour

For-profit capitalism has created social and economic inequality; successful not-for-profit businesses including Mozilla and the Big Issue point to an alternative path At the heart of the failing capitalist system is the “for-profit” ethic. Based on the myth that humans are...

Donnie Maclurcan and Jennifer Hinton · 4,312 views · 83%

Realize Your Potential: Occupy is a Consciousness-Expanding Phenomenon

The global Occupy movement is much more than an economic or political movement. Occupy is a consciousness-expanding phenomenon.

David DeGraw · 4,248 views · 100%

Nearly Half of Americans Are Now Classified as Low Income or Below the Poverty Line

Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.

Associated Press · 4,203 views · unrated

Opposition to Iraq War May Save Syria

Evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” is “no slam dunk,” U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet.

David Swanson · 4,136 views · 88%

This Is What Revolution Looks Like

Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to...

Chris Hedges · 4,068 views · 100%

I Believe in Breaking Good

It's interesting to watch Breaking Bad and realize most people probably think/fear the world is run by thugs who would do anything for m

Tim Anderson · 4,043 views · 100%

Terence McKenna: Memes are the Key to Societal Evolution

Tao Lin · 4,031 views · 75%

4 min

Who's Keeping Burger King Workers Below the Poverty Line?

What would you do with an extra $18,000 in your pocket? That's the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain's largest owners) had shared its bailout billions with...

Brave New Films · 4,012 views · 88%

Without a Debt Deal, Obama Can Make the Rich Pay

What we should be talking about when we talk about the debt ceiling is the proper role and size of government. Instead, we are asking whether the government spends too much on programs that alleviate the pain that is the result of government policies in the first place...

Moshe Adler · 3,981 views · unrated

Revolt and Change Our Lives

It's a sign of a really good essay when bits of it linger with you for days after you've read it and it keeps popping up in your mind. Naomi Klein's "Why Science is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives Before We Destroy the Planet" is one of those. Her theme?...

Joanne Poyourow · 3,925 views · 100%

Catholic Leaders Call On Gingrich And Santorum To ‘Stop Perpetuating Ugly Racial Stereotypes’ About Poverty

Faith in Public Life reports that more than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians across the country are calling on two of their “fellow Catholics,” GOP contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, to stop using divisive rhetoricabout race and poverty on the campaign trail.

Films For Action · 3,920 views · unrated

After the Encampments: #OCCUPYMIGRATION and #OCCUPYHOMES

The history of activism is a cat-and-mouse game of surprising tactical innovations that spark an insurrectionary situation and the counterstrategies developed to put down the revolt. In 1848, the invention of the barricade toppled the King of France and sparked a Europe-wide...

Micah White · 3,715 views · unrated

Keep Going and Do Not Stop (A Communiqué in Solidarity with the Occupy Movement from Cairo)

To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice.

our comrades from Cairo · 3,699 views · unrated

What If the Government Guaranteed You an Income?

First, the bad news: Even if the economy improves, middle-class career paths will continue to disappear as globalization and technological innovation render more jobs obsolete.

David R. Wheeler · 3,656 views · 75%

The Ecology of a Police State

Panagioti · 3,578 views · 100%

5 Ways To Take Charge of Your Health ~ Naturally

Looking to take charge of your health? Wondering where to begin? There is so much information out there about what foods to eat or not to eat, about what and how to exercise, about what herbs and supplements to take or not. Social Media has only made the abundance of how...

Ann Armbrecht · 3,509 views · 100%

Goldman Sachs Is Occupied

On October seventeenth (O17), a group of about 10 occupiers gathered outside 15 Central Park West, the address of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s multi-million dollar condo. Occupy Goldman Sachs was born. In the model of sleepful protests, they set up camp across from the...

OWS · 3,487 views · 100%

Pentagon Bracing for Public Dissent Over Climate and Energy Shocks

NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) documents disclosed by the Guardian have shocked the world with revelations of a comprehensive US-based surveillance...

Nafeez Ahmed · 3,385 views · 88%

9 min

Solutions After Disaster: How Worker-Owned Cooperatives are Generating Real Wealth and Community

One year ago, when Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast of the United States with its high tides and winds stretching a 900-mile span, it hit communities in 24 states. Damage estimates range from $50 billion to $68 billion. In New York, loss estimates exceed $19 billion...

Laura Flanders & Friends · 3,350 views · 75%

Obama's Hopelessly Wrong on the Environment -- Here's the Reality of What We Face

Based on what we know from the most recent climate science, Obama’s "all-of-the-above" energy policy is actually suicidal. Are there any self-respecting environmental organizations out there that are still behind President Obama? After his State of the Union on Tuesday...

Tara Lohan · 3,272 views · unrated

5 min

Spirit of MLK Launches Worldwide Wave of Action

Video transcript: Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We have come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism…. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook...

Martin King · 3,173 views · 88%

20 Years After NAFTA, Many Worlds Are Possible

Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow from EDELO (En Donde Era La UNO / Where the United Nations Used to Be) explore the effects of NAFTA in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state and the site of the Zapatista revolution sparked by the agreement.

EDELO · 3,152 views · 75%

What You Read is an Ethical Choice

Your information diet is an ethical choice of yours, so when you’re on the Huffington Post looking at say the Kardashians and you click on the Kardashians, understand that you are not only reading that article, but you’re also voting for that article.

Clay Johnson · 3,059 views · 75%

7 min

South African Students Grow Veggies to Feed the Local Children

It all started, in part, with Thomas Chevallier growing his own organic veggies and realizing the benefits of following a system that reflects the natural world, not only in the healthy food that was being produced, but the lesson of everything's inter connectivity.

Sustainable Brothers · 3,023 views · 100%

Pentagon Report into the Drugging of Guantánamo Prisoners Is Released

Ten and a half years into the Guantánamo experiment, as it becomes ever harder for those who are still appalled by the prison’s existence, and by the failures of all three branches of the US government—

Andy Worthington · 2,961 views · unrated

Open-Source Healthcare

The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a...

Kevin Carson · 2,725 views · unrated

Panache! Why We Must Fight

My three-year-old son’s favorite book is Out of the Blue. It has large color photographs of sea animals, from plankton to clownfish to orcas. I often find my son, dressed in his pajamas, on the floor of his bedroom in the morning carefully turning the pages of the book. And...

Chris Hedges · 2,687 views · unrated

2 min

Ivory Tower (trailer)

As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan debt passes $1 trillion (more than credit card debt), IVORY TOWER asks: Is college worth the cost? From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE...

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Hidden Treasures You Didn't Know You Owned

Self-organized commons are undergoing a renaissance today as one of the most robust alternatives to modern-day capitalism. Mention the commons and most people conjure up the image of a bucolic English pasture. The commons were the fields and forests where medieval commoners...

David Bollier · 2,622 views · 100%

Don't Be So 1980's! Businesses Can Create Solutions Too!

Back in in the day, an activist colleague of mine liked to wisecrack that whenever corporations talked about environmental solutions everyone could live with, what they meant were "solutions" only a politically acceptable number of people would die from. That is so 1980s...

Annie Leonard · 2,475 views · 100%

10 Reasons to Call for MORE Than $10.10 as a Minimum Wage

Last week President Obama signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for some federally contracted workers to $10.10. This move illustrates the fact that we need a higher minimum wage for all workers. It also promotes the bill by Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. George Miller...

Richard Eskow · 2,412 views · 50%

2 min

Street Life: Faces Uncovered (2016) (trailer)

Our journey began in 2012...

2,411 views · 100%

3 min

Civic Engagement: Community Disaster Relief Wagon

Circus Maximus flew from Seattle with his partner Karissa to help out in NJ after Hurricane Sandy. Using skills that he already had as a caterer, he decided to create The U-HUNGRY Cafe to mobilize and distribute food to shore towns without electricity and whose cars had been...

Lori H. Ersolmaz · 2,366 views · 88%

The Democratic Party is a Big Fraud

Just looking at the video images of the two conventions — the Republican one last week in Tampa, Florida, and this week’s Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC — one can see the fundamental contrast between the rank-and-file of the two parties.

DAVE LINDORFF · 1,937 views · unrated

Occupy Wall Street, Two Years On: We're Still the 99%

This week marks two years since I joined a ragtag crew of outraged young Americans in the streets of lower Manhattan.

Justin Wedes · 1,860 views · 100%

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Can a Tipi Stop a Pipeline? - Oyate Wahacanka

Can a Tipi Stop a Pipeline? Keystone Tar Sands / XL Pipeline. Nearly everyone is familiar with these words and most have at least some opinion about what they represent. Those who are willing to sacrifice the very things which make life possible on this planet for personal...

Oyate Wahacanka · 1,712 views · 75%

Why the Super-Rich Should Pay Super Taxes

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, "It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally...It's a game we play...I see nothing wrong with playing the game because we set it up to be a game." It's not a game for Americans who need jobs and education and public transportation...

Paul Buchheit · 1,711 views · 75%

The Crisis of Civilization is an Unprecedented Opportunity

Earlier this month, I had the honour of being interviewed by

Nafeez Ahmed · 1,659 views · unrated

The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage

In one of comedian Chris Rock's routines, he observes: "You know what that means when someone pays you a minimum wage? You know what your boss is trying to say? 'Hey, if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.'"

Mark Vorpahl · 1,623 views · unrated

Why I Got Arrested at Flood Wall Street

By now, you’ve seen the photos. With over 300,000—likely closer to 400,000—marchers streaming through the center of Manhattan, the People’s Climate March exceeded the organizers’ expectations and my own. It made the record books and then some, marking a scale of protest not...

Colin Kinniburgh · 1,553 views · 75%

Front-Lines Communities Rising Up: Dispatches from People's Climate

As heads of state, corporate leaders, and token civil society organizations meet behind the UN Climate Summit's closed doors Tuesday, the streets continue to resound with the messages of the 400,000 people who marched on Sunday, the thousands who flooded Wall Street, the

Nadia Prupis and Sarah Lazare · 1,410 views · 100%

26 min

Wage Crisis: The USA's New Underclass

The American working underclass has been under extreme tension for some time. Now with politicians not inclined to increase the minimum wage and food stamps stretched thin, the social ramification could be disastrous. The recession is not over for most American citizens. Most...

Journeyman Pictures · 1,295 views · 75%

Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us

Update: NASA is now clarifying its role in this study. NASA officials released this statement on the study on March 20, which seeks to distance the agency from the paper: "A soon-to-be published research paper, 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use...

Tom McKay · 717,143 views · 100%

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

Wisdom for aspiring leaders and change-makers of every kind

Stephen Mitchell · 187,952 views · 100%

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

The following statement somehow showed up on my Twitter feed the other day:

Carol Black · 170,723 views · 99%

The Top 10 Films That Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists

One of the most entertaining yet unsurprising aspects of Occupy Wall St has been the response from traditional media. Whether intentionally playing dumb or genuinely clueless, the mainstream media has failed to inform the public and substantially address the key issues. But...

Tim Hjersted · 134,216 views · 100%

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

When you know where to look, you begin to see an unprecedented phenomenon now happening in this world of ours. Be they teachers in favelas, forest defenders, urban farmers, occupiers of Wall Street, designers of windmills, military resisters (the list goes on…), the fact is...

Joanna Macy · 133,227 views · 97%

Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?

FEAR, PLEASURE, SORROW, thought and violence are all interrelated. Most of us take pleasure in violence, in disliking somebody, hating a particular race or group of people, having antagonistic feelings towards others. But in a state of mind in which all violence has come to...

J. Krishnamurti · 75,073 views · 76%

Roy Sesana's Speech Is One of The Most Powerful I have Ever Read: This Is What Leadership Looks Like

Roy Sesana gave this speech when he accepted the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm in 2005. We read this years ago and wanted to share it with you, because it's one of those rare speeches that we have wanted to read again and again over the years. It is profound and...

Roy Sesana · 48,726 views · 95%

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2011

2011 will likely be remembered in America as the year that the nation's youth finally started to wake up - all that bubbling knowledge of the world's problems, all the discontent and disillusion with our broken system finally burst into a flurry of creative action. Our...

Tim Hjersted · 40,926 views · 100%

Ten Things To Do When You’re Feeling Hopeless

These days, I’m more likely to feel hopeless than sad, more likely to feel as if nothing is ever enough, as if nothing really makes a difference, as if our whole human civilization is unraveling and there is nothing I or anyone can do about it. It’s a different feeling from...

Dave Pollard · 19,412 views · 75%

10 Reasons Why EarthShips Are F!#%ing Awesome

Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in. They offer amenities like no other sustainable building style you have come across.

Jordan Lejuwaan · 18,196 views · 98%

Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones' War on Your Mind

In 1833, William Miller predicted the second coming of Jesus Christ in the year 1843. Only after his fourth failed prediction, each of which saw hundreds of thousands of followers turn out, did his followers abandon him. By this time, Miller had already absconded with copious...

Nolan Higdon · 17,604 views · 79%

370 Million People Face the Threat of Extinction - And Nobody Is Talking About It

"This land belonged to my father," said Omot Ochan, a member of the Anuak tribe in Gambella, the poorest province in one of the world's poorest nations: Ethiopia. "All 'round here is ours. For two days' walk. When my father died, he said don't leave the land. We made a...

Hyacinth Mascarenhas · 14,721 views · 88%

5 Ways to Make Life More Like Burning Man

So you’ve been to the playa, and you’ve seen the promised land – the promise of freedom, of self-expression, of immediacy and creativity and community. The playa fed you, and it changed you. It provided you opportunities for growth, you took advantage of those...

Troy Dayton and Steve Bearman · 12,905 views · unrated

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June...

Bill McKibben · 12,367 views · 92%

Stop Saying "Do What You Love, Love What You Do." It Devalues Actual Work.

“Do what you love. Love what you do.”

Miya Tokumitsu · 12,344 views · 75%

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women

If you're not the type to keep up with ugly, soul-killing political controversies, let me catch you up: A while back, hugely popular political commentator Rush Limbaugh lost a bunch of advertisers because he publicly called a college girl a slut and a prostitute after she...

David Wong · 12,299 views · 88%

Ayn Rand's Philosophical Influence on Neo Conservatives and Her Arguments Against Christian Morality

“This odd little woman is attempting to give a moral sanction to greed and self interest,” Gore Vidal saidof Ayn Rand, writing for Esquire in July 1961, “and to pull it off she must at times indulge in purest Orwellian newspeak of the ‘freedom is slavery’ sort.”

Gore Vidal · 12,056 views · 100%

Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must

The book you're holding carries a message that your first instinct will be to distrust. That message is, We can change the world. It's risky these days to make such a promise because it sounds like one of those meaningless "awaken the inner giant" - type bromides: If you can...

Kalle Lasn · 11,248 views · 100%

The Earth Charter: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Preamble We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst...

The Earth Charter Initiative · 10,069 views · 100%

Green Cities and the End of the Age of Oil

Over the past century, our cities have been shaped — literally — for the benefit of the automobile and oil industries. Today, with global oil reserves headed toward irreversible decline, we need to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality. Seizing foreign oil...

Richard Register · 8,824 views · 100%

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 · 8,372 views · 92%

Ice Free Arctic in Two Years Heralds Methane Catastrophe: Scientist

Leading Arctic expert Prof Wadhams warns that a summer ice free Arctic in 2 years could trigger dangerous methane release, triggering costs as high as entire world GDP.

Nafeez Ahmed · 7,740 views · 88%

Using Permaculture Media & Advertising to Incite the Good in People

We know that television's numbing effect is an unhealthy side-effect of our modern world, however Jenny Nazak argues that we individually have the power to incite people to goodness using the bounty of multimedia platforms available to each and every one of us. Jerry...

Jenny Nazak · 7,078 views · 100%

Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side

In his important 2006 book, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic, the third and concluding part of a trilogy, the late Chalmers Johnson, who was an expert on Japan and US foreign policy, writes that as much as 40% of the Pentagon budget is “blac

Mark H. Gaffney · 6,554 views · unrated

It's the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World

Interest charges are a strongly regressive tax that the poor pay to the rich. A public banking system could realize savings up to 40 percent - allowing taxes to be cut, services increased and market stability created - with banks feeding the economy rather than feeding off...

Jan Hollingsworth · 6,086 views · 100%

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Libertarian Self-Marginalization

Go to the average mainstream libertarian venue on any given day, and you’re likely to see elaborate apologetics for corporate globalization, Wal-Mart, offshoring, Nike’s sweatshops, rising CO2 levels, income inequality and wealth concentration, CEO salaries, Big Pharma’s...

C4SS Feed 44 · 6,051 views · 100%

Art & Activism in the Age of the Anthropocene

Part 1 - A is for Artwashing, B is for Bicycle , C is for Commune.

John Jordan · 5,879 views · 100%

Breaking With Consensus Reality: From the Politics of Consent to the Seduction of Revolution

We who fight to create a freer world face a fundamental contradiction. On one hand, we don’t want to become a vanguard, “leading” or imposing our will on others, as that would run counter to our anti-authoritarian values. On the other hand, we believe with good justification...

Terror Incognita · 5,511 views · 88%

The End of the Animal Kingdom

I wrote this originally in 2010, and, it is based on decades of work by some of our best. Our scientists do not get credence from media. This graph displays the recorded measurements of the O2, or Oxygen, level of our atmosphere. Unlike the countless tens and tens of...

David Cardill · 5,388 views · 100%

The US Narrative on Syria Is a Lie: Now Is The Time to Use Facebook as a Microphone for Truth

The corporate media has once again become complicit in promoting the propaganda and disinformation put out by the US government. Like all good propaganda, success is defined partly by framing and limiting the debate to questions which, at the outset, prevent the most...

Tim Hjersted · 5,269 views · 75%

US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007

NBC News' report, "'

Tony Cartalucci · 5,154 views · 100%

Ukraine Crisis is about Great Power Oil & Gas Pipeline Rivalry

Resource scarcity and competition to dominate the Eurasian energy corridors are behind Russian militarism and US interference

Nafeez Ahmed · 5,015 views · 88%

21 Technologies That Will Decentralize the World

Across the planet, new technologies and business models are decentralizing power and placing it in the hands of communities and individuals.

Nina Misuraca Ignaczak · 4,967 views · 88%

The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female

The future of the human species - if there is to be a future - must be radically green, red, black and female.

Robert Jensen · 4,885 views · 94%

The Subsidy of History

Carson indicts historically existing capitalism as a betrayal, rather than a manifestation, of free-market libertarian principles. He points out that libertarians have typically focused on the role of state coercion in the present-day capitalist market, neglecting what he...

Kevin Carson · 4,757 views · 88%

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 · 4,667 views · unrated

The Perversion of Scholarship

Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric forms of expression—in short, the world of ethics...

Chris Hedges · 4,627 views · unrated

6 Ways to Get Ready for the May 1st General Strike

Yesterday, 60,000 marched on Madison to mark the one-year anniversary of the passage of Governor Scott Walker's drastic dismantling of collective bargaining rights for public employees. Last year, Walker's attacks on labor rights sparked massive protests that saw hundreds of...

OWS · 4,342 views · 100%

How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt

In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference had some big-name...

Naomi Klein · 4,206 views · 100%

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 · 4,035 views · 100%

We Can Do So Much Better than Adaptation Or Resilience. Let's Focus On Building The World We Want.

'Call it the creative instead of “resilient” frame of mind. “Resilient” is OK, but it is still reactive, if in a good way. Better to create something actively good in the first place rather than build dikes around what’s left over.'

Richard Register · 3,858 views · unrated

Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Crosshairs

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less

Ellen Brown · 3,846 views · unrated

30 Things You Should Do Right Now

1. Floss. Shut up about blood and it getting stuck in your teeth or a general fear of dentistry and just floss.

Ben Branstetter · 3,794 views · unrated

The Story of Good Versus Evil

To this day, a philosophical debate rages on as to the true nature of humanity. Is humanity at its core good or evil? Does the human species amount to no more than a parasite on the planet as Agent Smith says in The Matrix, “a cancer”, intent on devouring every last resource...

Sustainable Man · 3,760 views · 75%

Viruses of the Mind

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes. The avenues for entry and departure are modified to suit local conditions, and...

Richard Dawkins · 3,649 views · 100%

Naomi Klein: Green Groups May Be More Damaging Than Climate Change Deniers

Canadian author Naomi Klein is so well known for her blade-sharp commentary that it’s easy to forget that she is, above all, a first-rate reporter. I got a glimpse into her priorities as I was working on this interview. Klein told me she was worried that some of the things...

Jason Mark · 3,457 views · unrated

The Narratives Used to Wage War Are No Longer Working

Why is the American public so unenthusiastic about bombing Syria? Certainly the case for war is weak and hypocritical

Charles Eisenstein · 3,240 views · 75%

The Earth's Not Getting Hotter....We're Just Getting Colder

cold: adjective- “aloof” syno

Ghost of Spartacus · 3,146 views · 75%

We are Better Than This

Americans will remember Monday, April 15, 2013 as a day in which unspeakable violence took the lives of three people and wounded at least 153 after bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line. Thousands of miles away, Iraqis will remember this same Monday as a day in...

Erin Niemela · 3,142 views · 75%

What It's Like Living Under Attack in Gaza

When three Israelis were reported kidnapped in Hebron back in June, I immediately knew that in one way or another, Gaza would be affected. What I didn't expect was the massive military operation that my home has been enduring

Abeer Ayyoub · 2,912 views · 75%

Five Axioms of Sustainability

My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (based on a review of the literature) to help clarify the characteristics of a durable society.

Richard Heinberg · 2,851 views · unrated

Obama, Guantánamo, and the enduring national shame

The New York Times this morning deserves credit for publishing one of the most powerful Op-Eds you will ever read. I urge you to read it in its entirety: it's by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, a Yemeni national who has been imprisoned at Guantánamo without charges of any kind...

Glenn Greenwald · 2,785 views · 75%

FBI Report Implicates Saudi Government in 9/11

But “We Can’t Afford to Irritate the Saudis” By Actually Looking Into Who Backed 9/11 … “Especially with Oil Prices Going Up Now” Contrary to the official narrative, 9/11 was state-sponsored terror. The only question is which state s

Washingtons Blog · 2,710 views · 75%

The World's Most Subversive Soap Operas

From telenovelas about Latin America’s missing girls to a series on conflict resolution in wartorn lands, soap operas are surreptitious agents of social change in the developing world. When veteran Hollywood screenwriter Deborah Jones saw that the director of photography...

Christopher Dickey · 2,555 views · 75%

Why the Government Shutdown Is Not Anarchist Utopia

In his complaints against the wing of the Republican Party that engineered the present government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid derided his opponents as “Tea Party anarchists.” It’s hard to decide who should be more annoyed — the Tea Party or the anarchists. In...

Nathan Schneider · 2,539 views · unrated

Sacrificing the Vulnerable, From Gaza to America

Chris Hedges gave this speech Saturday at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, Wis., before a crowd of about 2,000. His address followed one there by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who seems to be preparing to run in the Democratic presidential primaries...

Chris Hedges · 2,387 views · unrated

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