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From The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy:
The London Arms Fair comes to the ExCel centre this week. You'll find guns, tanks and killer drones - and you may also find offers of illegal torture equipment. Want to know more? Visit Torture on Your Doorstep.
Corbyn has said that his campaign is about turning the Labour Party into a social movement. That’s the only chance he has.
Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the...
Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. It’s what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial (read why here...
POC21 is an innovation camp for open-source sustainability taking place at Chateau de Millemont (Paris) in 2015. 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy. Their ultimate goal: Overcome...
In early September, a huge delegation of the Buddhist teacher and author Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's monks and nuns will arrive in New York City to lead retreats, book launches, and outdoor meditations and I will be driving from Baltimore to join them. In more than 20 years...
The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority
On the tenth anniversary of the Attacks of September 11th, 2001, expert witnesses gathered at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada to provide evidence-based research that called into question the official story of 9/11. This was known as The Toronto Hearings on 9/11. Over a...
In his upcoming October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. "There's a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system," he says in...
The Last Pig journeys into the life of a pig farmer as he grapples with death, searches for compassion, and finally finds the courage to change.
We've drained our planet's stored energy, scientists say, with no rechargeable plug in sight.
As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank, has released a new booklet to teach young people "the right facts" -
Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild are major shareholders in and members of the Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Energy. Israel has granted Genie oil exploration in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Genie plans to drill 10 exploratory wells over three years there...
Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but they’re merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.
A Cal State Sacramento University professor who allegedly told his United States History class he did not like the term ‘genocide’ in relation to Native Americans in history, told a Native American student who disagreed with him that she was disenrolled and expelled from his...
Publication that gives grants to scientists goes from non-profit to for-profit under Fox umbrella.
Learn how to turn any business into a worker-owned cooperative with this checklist.
A bitter dose of heartfelt rationality in a field muddied by conspiracy industry dimwits.
When Congressman Thomas Massie first arrived in Washington, DC as a freshman from Kentucky, a long-tenured North Carolinian, Walter Jones, asked him an intriguing question.
The long-suppressed 'Trump: What’s the Deal?' is now available to be streamed online.
Find out how anchor institutions like hospitals and universities can help worker cooperatives create green jobs in the neighborhoods that need them most.
Extracted from Royal Babylon: the Criminal Record of the British Monarchy. An investigative poem by Heathcote Williams.
It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s marriage monopoly was eventually discovered, and Rorex quit — many calling for her to face...
If you live amongst society today it’s nearly a guarantee that you are causing some amount of environmental harm via your transportation.  How much is largely up to you.  There is no one size fits all solution to environmental destruction caused by getting yourself around so...
There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly. And I write it only having become convinced, after several months...
Climate Deadline is an ambitious documentary in the making, taking us from the UN climate talks in Durban in 2011 (COP17) to COP21 in Paris this December, where this project will be finalised and the nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty is being...
Author and humourist PG Wodehouse once wrote that “it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine”. He was absolutely right when it came to American presidential hopeful and property mogul Donald Trump’s attempts to insinuate...
Does it feel like every day you're being told to "call people out" for more and more things? While acknowledging that some people do deserve to be called out for their actions, Brooke Sopelsa talks about an alternative for those who might not deserve it.
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests
Tens of thousands of people have attended candlelight vigils across Australia in support of refugees, adding their voices to the growing pressure on Australia to accept more people who are fleeing the war in Syria.
As we see pictures of German citizens cheering tens of thousands refugees arriving from Syria and other war zones, we may be witnessing an emerging pattern of the years to come: bureaucracy is failing (EU), systems collapsing (millions of Asylum seeking refugees in urgent...
1) “Call-out culture was developed to allow activist groups to confront leaders who abused their privilege, but now it is being used to settle petty scores on the level of interpersonal politics. I now have a hard time believing some people when they make call-outs because I...
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
#2. Bartending is far more dangerous than being a police officer.
The refugee crisis in Europe is showing that humans helping each other, irrespective of national boundaries, is often the most effective form of action.
Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well.
Mark Kernan argues that the late comedian was a shaman of our times
It has been amazing for me to return the the White Crow Farm. Six years ago I moved to this land to reconnect with my roots, and to start to use my skills in media to tell the story of the important work happening on the land. That project would one day turn into Over Grow...
Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Recently, on All Things Considered—you know, that bastion of liberal media—Mara Liasson, talking about the prospect of Joe Biden running for President said: There are many Democrats who think it would be good for Hillary Clinton because she'd have a serious opponent, and it...
"Anarcho-syndicalism is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none."
What will happen when the state collapses? Will society descend into lawlessness, or can we seize the opportunity to let our human potential flourish?
Abby Martin explores the U.S. Empire, its rise to world hegemony and its impact on people and the planet.
Last week, 14-year-old Ahed Tamimi confronted an Israeli soldier who was assaulting her brother. She is one of the faces of the anti-occupation movement in the West Bank.
This week we re-think our critique of the People's Climate March, then we go to Germany where trouble makers have been regularly shutting down Europe's largest source of CO2. Then on to Greece, to look at a growing resistance against a gold mine and finally to the longest...
A tax on Wall Street traders would tame risky bets on the stock market without disrupting America’s economy.
Trees 'store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services'
Rather than waiting for society to all agree how we need to live in a different way, by focusing here in the suburban household, people can actually get on with making changes… a lot can happen right where people are. – David Holmgren, co-founder of Permacul
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy
From the brilliant mind and pencil of Steve Cutts, a message in support of animal rights.
There are over 1.5 million non profits registered in the USA.  That is awesome!  Well sort of awesome actually.   It seems to me that if we have that many non profits we shouldn’t have as many problems as we do.  I really admire anyone who is going out of there way to make a...
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources. The concept of biocultural rights combines nature with culture; takes...
Scholar Henry Giroux says America’s current political system is leading to a culture where people are so focused on surviving, they become like ‘the walking dead.’
When Arizona Sen. John McCain met with the Navajo Nation’s tribal government earlier this month at their capital in Window Rock, Arizona, after arriving in a big black SUV, he believed he would be spending the day observing the commemoration of Code Talkers Day. This was not...
In this clip, Sen. Bernie Sanders says he believes “one of the Supreme Court’s worst decisions ever” — Citizens United — has allowed big money to “deflect attention from the real issues” facing voters.
Rule 1: There is no man box.
Free cash is in the works for a growing number of Dutch urbanites. After the city of Utrecht announced that it would give no-strings-attached money
As another election season approaches, we are faced with the age old anarchist dilemma: To vote or not to vote.
I get trolled a lot these days by people with all sorts of ideological beef. It gets old, fast. 9/11 and 7/7 conspiracy theorists who believe that governments "did" 9/11 and 7/7 criticise me for being too "establishment". On Twitter, arch 9/11 conspiracy wing nut accounts...
Humanity, after taking over the driver’s seat of evolution, has crashed it into the brick wall of industrial civilization.
Ocean plastic has been ingested by 90 percent of all seabirds alive today, a new study finds, and the problem is still getting worse. But it's not too late to intervene, researchers say.
“The first step in the revolution is eye contact.” - Alicen Grey
The film inspired by Klein's book features the stories of everyday people standing up to climate change.
If you want to do more than just feel good, ask the Big Questions about poverty and we can expose its root causes and get real answers about how to stop creating it.
Transgender healthcare access is crucial for trans people to live and be themselves, but trans people are frequently marginalized in so many ways, including equal access to healthcare. This film covers the current issues faced by trans people in the US. Please watch, like...
Do you despair when people fleeing war, poverty and disasters are met with hostility or indifference? Fed up with the dispassionate and downright inhumane response from governments and the media? You're not alone. Citizens of many countries are taking direct action to help...
Structured as a personal journey of rediscovery by filmmaker Jennifer Lee, this documentary brings the momentous first decade of secondwave feminism vividly to life. Its trajectory starts with the earliest stirrings in 1963 and ends with the movement’s full blossoming in...
A much-anticipated book in conservation and natural science circles is EO Wilson’s Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, which is due early next year. It builds on his proposal to set aside half the Earth for the preservation of biodiversity. The famous biologist and...
Bree Newsome’s removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse reminds us that real change comes from people power.
The Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial media...
One of the best ways for the general public to take power back is to develop alternative currencies — both local and global — that allow people to trade outside of the corporate-government banking systems and central bank notes.
Hungary plans to build a very long fence to keep migrants out. Thousands of asylum-seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and beyond are streaming into the EU via Hungary.
Was the catalyst for the current conflict in Syria a drought caused by anthropogenic climate change?
This summer, seismic blasting in Arctic waters is being conducted on behalf of companies like Shell, looking for oil beneath the seabed. Blasts from 16 massive airguns are emitted every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these blasts are 8 times louder than a jumbo...
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling. Most, including many of those at the heart of the American empire, recognize that every promise made by the proponents of...
In response to Jeremy Corbyn's  'Standing to Deliver' plan "for a fairer and more successful Britain," Jeremy Gilbert suggests an additional 10 things to plug some of the holes in Corbyn's plan, making it a more relevant and robust radical plan for 21st Century Britain and...
A civil rights activist, Mohammad Jibran Nasir, sparks a social revolution after almost 140 children were killed in the Peshawar Army School tragedy. A short documentary that sheds light on the consequences of extreme religion and terrorism in Pakistan and offers hope to the...
There’s a misconception that abusive partners always use physical violence, which can make it hard to tell if your partner’s abusive.
In attempting to answer the question "how to win a holy war?" Matthew Cooke begins by trying to define what is "holy" and guides us on a wonderful journey toward oneness.
The Peruvian Amazon, which encompasses some 300,000 square miles, is an extremely biodiverse landscape larger than the state of Texas. For its size, it is very sparsely inhabited – it takes up 60% of Peru's landmass but is only home to about 5% of the country's 30 million...
When the then 28-year-old Bryan Stevenson was threatened with a gun by a police officer, he knew better than to run away. But, he argues, young black men are still presumed guilty and dangerous by many Americans. Now executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and part...
The detention of migrants has become a multi-billion dollar industry in which immigrants are sold to the highest bidder and traded like mere products. The Corrections Corporation of America, The Geo Group, and the Management and Training Corporation run over 200 facilities...
At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere shares some of the beliefs of her culture. Rose welcomes people from all over the world into her home to talk about ancient Maori ways...
Not to be outdone, thousands of anti-war protesters make their presence known at the event.
After the tragic crisis in Syria, more than half of all Syrians have left their homes. Where are they?
Set in the world of a spoofed prescription drug commercial, Nature Rx offers a hearty dose of laughs and the outdoors - two timeless prescriptions for whatever ails you. Side effects may include confidence, authenticity, remembering you have a body, and being in a good mood...
Motherboard dives head first into the R+D world surrounding the development of fungi as a viable replacement for plastic, and the people who hope it can lead to a better and more sustainable future.
A lawyer's advice on how to assert your rights when it comes to drugs and the police.
Democracynow.org - Today we spend the hour with David Simon, the man behind "The Wire," what some have described as the best television series ever broadcast. His latest project is titled "Show Me a Hero," a six-part mini-series now airing on HBO.
Focusing on privilege diverts attention away from the real villains.
Rather than creating an individualized “culture of giving,” we should be challenging capitalism’s institutionalized taking.
In the 1970s, women from the Indian subcontinent who migrated to the UK to join their spouses were routinely subjected to virginity testing examinations. A poet and a filmmaker from Bristol, UK have made a short film, Borders, about the women's experience.
Using state of the art 3D graphics and the timing of a stand-up comedian, world famous statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents a spectacular portrait of our rapidly changing world. With 7 billion people already on our planet we often look to the future with dread, but...
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