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So much in our culture emphasises long-term love; it may be time to hear a word or two in praise of the short-term approach.
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Privilege discourse has noble intentions but it seems that it is used far too often in practice to guilt and shame others for things they don't have control over. If education and empathy (and not shame) is the goal, it might be better to scrap the whole privilege framework...
Brexit win has much to teach Democrats about Trump threat, warns senator, and elites ignore frustrations of workers and the poor at their own peril
Jon Queally
It’s been a couple of days since the shocking referendum result, and it feels no better than it did on the night.
In fact, if anything, it feels worse. Many of the worst fears of Remain activists seem to be coming true. Reports of racism and xenophobia are soaring in the...
Alex Scrivener
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Obama’s high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that gave endless justifications for the US use of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. The myths are widely accepted in society, and underpin the notion of American exceptionalism.
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Puerto Rico’s massive debt has been discussed at length in Congress and the media, all omitting the most important fact: the history of being a colonial subject for over 500 years, still owned and controlled by the United States.
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We interviewed Daniel Casado, chilean environmental photgrapher for our webseries called "Retratos" (Portraits).
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The Flint water crisis is an example of a problem occurring across the world: when officials try to run government like a business by reducing funding for public utilities and undermining democratic accountability it's local communities who pay the ultimate cost.
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The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking...
John Pilger
Why are some women more invisible than others? To grow new anti-patriarchal movements like Black Lives Matter, we need to start opening our eyes.
Akiba Solomon
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Rio is hiding poor people. The 2016 Olympics are set to begin in just over a month in Rio de Janeiro. As the city prepares to receive an influx of international visitors, it is building new infrastructure and transportation systems to accommodate the surge. But the city is...
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The two major parties have proven they don't deserve majority government. And thanks to Australia's complex, opaque preferential voting system, we can break this Team Red/Team Blue nonsense once and for all.
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Britain’s EU referendum has unleashed a complex set of crises and challenges. Vanessa Baird tries to look ahead.
Vanessa Baird
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The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, and it looks like it may not be an especially smooth transition.
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The country is in a very grave crisis. That’s what we should be talking about, not the internal travails of the Labour Party. The Brexiteers have no plan; they began backtracking on their promises within hours, which may well produce a firestorm of fury in the coming months...
Owen Jones
Analysis of the Brexit Vs the EU sitiuation
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"You know how important it is to protect your family. But you may not know that some of America’s poorest citizens cannot afford to arm themselves against those who would limit their freedoms. That’s why the National Rifle Association is proud to partner with Smith &...
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Doping scandals have cast a shadow over the Olympic Games. Until we eliminate drugs from sports, we should at least update our athlete promos.
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Between 2009 and 2011, Shane Bauer spent nearly two years locked up in an Iranian prison as one of the jailed American hikers. Last year, he went back to jail-this time as an undercover journalist working as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana.
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The Democratic Party deserves a reformation. It can either choose to embrace a more progressive agenda and modify its primary nomination rules, or risk losing in November. Because the process that made it possible for Hillary Clinton to clinch the nomination was anything but...
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Here we are. The Post-Brexit world, the birds are still singing, the pound has stuttered, Labour capitulates, it’s still raining and one Etonian PM looks set to be replaced by another.
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Britain remains in a widening crisis days after voters chose to leave the European Union. British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his resignation. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing a coup within his own party as more than a dozen members of his shadow cabinet...
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An original song by performed on Mount Tamalpais to honor Oscar Grant and the People of Color who are oppressed and die at the hands of police violence every day. Give thanks to Brandon Vance, Tommy Reed, Kokou Katamani, Jahan Khalighi and all of the Chabot College students...
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This short film looks at the sport of roller derby and interviews the women of the Rose City Rollers who talk about how it has allowed them to celebrate, love and appreciate their bodies.
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A second Spanish general election in six months saw gains for the right-wing PP, which is again expected to form a government. But the insurgent left has also shown that it is here to stay, writes Oscar Reyes.
Oscar Reyes
On Friday, June 24th, 2016, a majority of people voting in a referendum in the United Kingdom chose to leave the European Union.
Rhyd Wildermuth
The labor movement is far from dead—if anything, the upsurge of labor unrest and class-based mobilization since 2008 signals that the tide is turning.
Beverly Silver
All of us have those times where we talk down to ourselves. We feel inferior, and belittle ourselves with harsh words. Sometimes, we are our own worst enemy. It’s important to remember, we will never be able to achieve self-love if we only focus on what we hate.
Raven Fon
Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates
Lauren McCauley
"The uprising has begun. The question now is, who will lead it going forward?"
Lauren McCauley
Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them from default. Most governments, including ours, will probably comply.
Chris Hedges
Social justice and democracy must be at the heart of Brexit negotiations. Progressives must unite to stop the UK turning into a Thatcherite wasteland
Paul Mason
These simple mantras can help us overcome suffering
Thich Nhat Hanh
We live in the beginning phase of a global revolution which will turn societal conditions upside down. We cannot stop this transformation, but we can influence where it will go. Will the disintegration of the globalized systems lead to fascist violence and molecular civil...
Martin Winiecki
Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect on deeper issues. For those of us who spend a large portion of our lives thinking, writing...
Co-authored with Cherise Charleswell
The following is a statement by the Left Unity Executive Committee following the outcome of the referendum vote in the UK:
Left Unity
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Here's the first instalment of our Public Information Broadcast series. Publicly informing you on the subject of battery farming. FULL CREDITS: Featuring the acting talent of Candice Palladino.
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Britain’s vote last night to leave the European Union will be a disaster for the climate — both physical and political — on both sides of the Atlantic.
Kate Aronoff
A working-class revolt has taken place, and frustration is spilling out in all sorts of directions. If Britain is to have a future, the escalating culture wars have to stop
Owen Jones
In 2013, President Obama, speaking at a fundraiser in Medina, Washington — home to a small community of wealthy donors — expressed a sentiment that has become all too common among Democratic Party liberals.
Jake Johnson
Things are changing. A major crack has appeared in the edifice of globalization, and the neoliberal order that has dominated the world’s economy since the end of World War II is now in danger.
Richard Eskow
Cameron resigns, markets roil, and right-wingers cheer as Brexit becomes reality
Nika Knight
We all have our view on the long-term prospects associated with an exit from the EU.
Olivier Vardakoulias
Farewell cosmopolitan Britain – hail mean, delusional (and rather elderly) little England.
Vanessa Baird
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Voters have voted in favor of Brexit: British exit from the European Union. That means that in the coming months, British and European leaders will begin negotiating the terms of Britain's departure.
Britain's exit will affect the British economy, immigration policy, and...
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Since the June 6 California primary, the historic upheaval that coalesced around Bernie Sanders’ campaign has continued to defy the demands of the political establishment, but has also increasingly turned into a search for the way forward. After a powerful, year-long mass...
Kshama Sawant
What now for the radical left in Labour and beyond?
Paul Mason
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Physician Dr. Gabor Mate began his interview by addressing the 'myth of normal' that divides us into the normal and the abnormal with pathological traits. Dr. Mate mentions that he doesn't see a division, but a continuum where mental distress, of some degree, is present in...
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Donald Trump is a distraction from the fact that the mainstream media has pretended the GOP is a normal party with values just to the right. Now the country is paying the price.
Neal Gabler
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The following documentary examines the role Christianity plays in American right-wing politics and the radicalizing effect it has had. Republicans often say that a handful of radicals represent the entire Muslim community. Should Christians be held to the same standard?
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My supporters and I want real change in this country.
Bernie Sanders
The historic sit-in in the House is impressive to behold, but the two proposals the Democrats are demanding a vote on are very problematic
Phyllis Bennis
21 min
In December 2014, Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer started a job as a corrections officer at a Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country's second-largest private prison company. During his four months on the job, Bauer would...
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Short documentary showing how recent developments in Soho, London, are affecting a market-stall owner.
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Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era is a book edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, which consists of over 50 entries covering various themes related to degrowth.
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Let’s be clear what kind of growth degrowth needs to challenge: the growth of biophysical throughput, continuous capital accumulation and productivism, as well as mindless attempts of boosting GDP – or, what we call the growthocene.
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson
The Economics of Happiness Workshop and Toolkit is a do-it-yourself tool for activists and others that want to kick-start effective global-to-local action in their area or within an existing group.
Almost 600,000 previously disenfranchised independent voters in California may have their votes counted, after all.
Liam Miller
A Leave vote would provide a mandate for Brexit leaders to push for Fortress Britain
Nadine El-Enany
The natural tendency toward discrimination and inequality
Yanis Varoufakis
The EU vote offers a mirror to the British left. The right-wing “remain” and “leave” coalitions are both monstrosities. It is up to us to liberate ourselves.
Joshua Hans Virasami
Radicals and extremists threaten our way of life, so goes the official line. The two labels are synonymous with each other in mainstream political discourse, and then further, with ‘violent fundamentalists’.
Elizabeth Mizon
Have you ever felt like you’re in a wash-rinse-repeat cycle watching the news, not just mainstream but even alternative media? Much of it is just that, in effect, if it doesn’t draw actionable conclusions or serious elevation in thought and perception. If newly discovered or...
Zen Gardner
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In this video, Dr. Gabor Maté explains how addiction imprints itself on the brain and how ayahuasca can help release people from their destructive habits. "Ayahuasca shows you very clearly the psychological baggage that you've carried all your life," Maté says. "You no longer...
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A few years ago, I contacted my local police department asking them to send an officer over to put down a doe that had been hit by a car on the street in front of my house. She had suffered a left front and right rear leg break but had somehow flopped herself well into the...
Dave Lindorff
The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has experimented with various psychedelic compounds (take the CIA’s secret attempts at LSD...
April M. Short
Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious...
John Halle and Noam Chomsky
Relating to your partner, spouse or significant other can be challenging. Here's what the people who make it work know that you may not.
Starre Vartan
The facile and indiscriminate use of the term fascism has led to a widespread misunderstanding and misuse of its meaning. Asked to define fascism, most people would respond in terms such as dictatorship, anti-Semitism, mass hysteria, efficient propaganda machine, mesmerizing...
Ismael Hossein-zadeh
One of the most important skills we can teach our kids is empathy. Empathy is the ability to see and value what another person is feeling or experiencing. When we see someone in pain and feel that response in our own gut, that’s empathy. When we see someone crying tears of...
Steve Palmer
The human use of fungi for changing consciousness extends far into pre-history. Arguably, the first food product humans produced was a mead (honey wine). Early humans, so the thought goes, at some point discovered that by placing a beehive in a small body of water and then...
Radical Mycology
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ― Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein
The rise of people who are diagnosed with mental illnesses, especially children, has been unprecedented. ADHD, ADD, bipolar...
Martijn Schirp
There may well come a time when walking away from the EU is the right thing to do, but that time is not now.
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One of the UK’s leading EU law experts criticizes the referendum debate’s “dishonesty on an industrial scale”, as he considers the claims and counter claims from each side.
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Gun Corp is part of a series of comedic short films made in order to help bring about an antidote to violence and make the world a safer kinder and gentler place.
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Like so many others, I’ve been at a loss for the past two days, trying to make sense of the heinous act of anti-queer mass murder in Orlando. The following are some of my scattered thoughts on the topic, some of which I originally posted in a couple of rants on social media...
Tariq Khan
Expert tips to manage your frustration and get past toxic thinking.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Intimate relationships bring up intense feelings. Conflict with a partner can feel destabilizing, and make it difficult to be articulate and openly expressive. Many people try to avoid conflict through a variety of maneuvers—pretending to always agree, being aggressively...
Laura D. Miller
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In an extensive mini-documentary by Rogue Kite Productions and The Young Turks, we tell you the true story of what happened leading up to and after the California Democratic Primary. #ShowMeTheBallots #&l
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What happened in Orlando was a tragedy. My heart breaks for the lives taken, and those left behind filled with pain and only questions. But even though it may be considered politically incorrect by some to mention, that number is an insignificant drop of water in the ocean...
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Last month, the University of San Francisco made an alarming discovery, that 93% of Americans tested had traces of a chemical called glyphosate in their urine. Last year, the World Health Organization deemed glyphosate a “possible carcinogen”.
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Environmental activists were killed at a rate of more than three per week in 2015, according to a new report by Global Witness. The murders occurred amid conflicts with mining, logging, hydro power, and agribusiness operations, particularly in indigenous lands.
Sandra Cuffe
In parts of the world, reading this is a crime. Censorship, imprisoning dissidents, surveillance, cracking down on a free press, intimidating people critical of the government — these are just some of the tactics used by oppressive governments to limit free expression.
Only...
Jigsaw/Vice
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When we're down or melancholy, the last thing we need is someone who will jolly us along.
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Brexit is not being taken seriously enough. It's a much more serious threat to the world than ISIS or China is. This video explains why.
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During the presidential election cycle, liberals display their gutlessness. Liberal organizations, such as MoveOn.org, become cloyingly subservient to the Democratic Party. Liberal media, epitomized by MSNBC, ruthlessly purge those who challenge the Democratic Party...
Chris Hedges
New revelations raise questions about the FBI’s role in shaping Mateen’s lethal mindset.
Max Blumenthal and Sarah Lazare
Left out by traditional unions, women-led domestic workers are winning fights for minimum wage and overtime across the country.
Sheila Bapat
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In this exclusive acTVism video report, we travel to the Volksbühne in Berlin to document a global event named “First they came for Assange” in which the case of Wikileaks and its founder of Julian Assange was brought to the forefront. In addition we talk directly to the...
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The Children's Fire is part of the Earth teachings of the elders of ancient America. Over time the elders came to understand that all human-created institutions needed to reflect the balance and wisdom observed in nature. The Children's Fire was a reminder of the first...
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In May’s presidential elections in Austria, Norbert Hofer, the candidate for the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPO), lost by less than one percentage point to his rival, Alexander van der Bellen.
But the FPO is not merely a ‘far-right’ political party. It is, more...
Nafeez Ahmed
I’m bored of hearing that ‘feminism needs to do more to attract men’. If only feminists could succeed by asking men nicely to allow us to gather up the scattered remains of our basic human rights from under their banquet of privilege!
Kate Smurthwaite
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As pride season approaches Shon Faye looks at how corporations and governments have co-opted the LGBT movement.
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As Tiger Singleton continues his European tour CANDiGRAM looks into the question of whether today's fear-based society can really benefit from enquiries into the nature of self.
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Britain could soon vote to leave the European Union. John Oliver enlists a barbershop quartet to propose a smarter option.
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A comic about the "sharing economy"
Joey Alison Sayers
Labour MP Jo Cox's murder was the act of a fascist terrorist inspired by relentless nationalist, anti-immigrant campaigning from mainstream politicians and the media; not, as he's portrayed, merely a 'loner' with 'mental health issues'.
Ed Goddard
Why do pantheists believe in pantheism?
What's the evidence for pantheism? How do you know the universe is worthy of reverence?
If I accept p
Paul Harrison
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Niya & Kris, the husband wife duo entertain the crowd with a song from their soon to be released second CD "Below the Watermark" a compilation of songs dedicated to her family in New Orleans.
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