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We Are All Indigenous
We Are All Indigenous
All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand something only if we can understand how it is connected to everything else.
Robert Koehler
Our Invisible Government
Our Invisible Government
The most powerful and important organs in the invisible government are the nations bloated and unaccountable intelligence agencies.
Chris Hedges
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.
Justin Mcbrien
How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist
How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist
'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'
Peter Kalmus
Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside
Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside
Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral firein April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdoms parliament and chastised its meager response to climate change. I want you to panic, the baby-faced sixteen-year-old quietly instructed...
Catherine Tumber
The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed
The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed
As media theorists, we set out in Spring 2019 to pool our collective expertise into a short and very readable article for the mainstream press about how media treats Western foreign policy.
Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann
Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities
Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities
Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentaryLove School. Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever Im with you. ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes As I pul
Ian Mackenzie
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Good food is key to our survival and well-being.Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution,and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening our...
Local Futures
A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy
A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy
This charter wasoriginally published in Spanishas a rallying call for Social Solidarity Economy initiatives within the Spanish territory. We have translated it to share its principles with English speaking audiences and Social Solidarity initiatives worldwide. This article...
REAS
Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
BeyondCommon Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paines life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he was either ignored or excoriatedthe price he paid forThe Age of Reasonand its...
Bruce E. Levine
Trump the Magician: The Real Function of Racism and Xenophobia
Trump the Magician: The Real Function of Racism and Xenophobia
Donald Trump is a con artist. He is practicing one of the oldest tricks in the book, borrowing a page from every magician who seeks to fool and dazzle their audience by distracting their attention at a critical moment in the act. Trumps trick of choice has a long history in...
Brian Becker
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers.
Ronnie Cummins
Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week
Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week
Working less would massively reduce our carbon footprint, and bring many other benefits besides
André Spicer
Want to Tackle Inequality? Then First Change Our Land Ownership Laws
Want to Tackle Inequality? Then First Change Our Land Ownership Laws
What is the most neglected issue in British politics? I would say land. Literally and metaphorically, land underlies our lives, but its ownership and control have been captured by a tiny number of people. The results include soaring inequality and exclusion; the massive cost...
George Monbiot
Are We Done Fighting?
Are We Done Fighting?
We need ways to build healthier relationships with people who have perspectives different from our own.
Matthew Legge
‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump's Persecution of Assange
‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump's Persecution of Assange
In the endless brain fart cyclone that is the Trump era, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acostahas made a name for himselfposing as a martyr of the free press. While US mass media have made a theatrical WWE performance of Trumps occasional mean words toward Acosta
Caitlin Johnstone
Flag of Distress/What to a Migrant Child Is July 4th?
Flag of Distress/What to a Migrant Child Is July 4th?
A Poem For Freedom
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming
The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming
In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earths species are being driven to extinction; before that, researchers reported the climate was warming faster than even the most pessimistic projections. Worse yet, another report gave humanity...
Thomas Linzey
Was Austerity a Scam?
Was Austerity a Scam?
Austerity in Ireland resulted in over 10,000 homeless people, the crisis overseen by a government ideologically opposed to the concept of social housing. Now a property boom is taking place that is enriching an elite while the homeless figures continue to rise. Is this...
Eamonn Kelly
European Paganism and Christianization
European Paganism and Christianization
In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of religious beliefs, most of which are pejoratively referred to as paganism. The...
Jordan Engel
Workers Should Be in Charge
Workers Should Be in Charge
Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But theres an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.
Peter Gowan
American Exceptionalism, American Innocence, and What Comes Next: An Interview With Danny Haiphong
American Exceptionalism, American Innocence, and What Comes Next: An Interview With Danny Haiphong
The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book,American Exceptionalism and American Innocence:A People's History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on...
Colin Jenkins
The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down
The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down
Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems of governance that would, first and foremost, protect them (the wealthy, landowning minority)...
Colin Jenkins
Scott Noble's History of Resistance
Scott Noble's History of Resistance
Scott Noble has been making documentary films for close to a decade. His films are consistently thoughtful and never superficial. Reminiscent of Chris Markers documentary work in style and approach, Nobles films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...
Ron Jacobs
Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.
Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton
I’m a Jewish Historian. Yes, We Should Call Border Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps'
I’m a Jewish Historian. Yes, We Should Call Border Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps'
It isnt just accurate. Its necessary.
Anna Lind-Guzik
This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire - and What Lies Beyond
This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire - and What Lies Beyond
An excerpt from a new book by Samuel Alexander and Rupert Read
Samuel Alexander
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
LONDONOn Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly trimmed...
Chris Hedges
Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos
Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos
Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imaginecows from Mexicobeing fed corn imported from the United States, then being exported to the United States for butchering, and...
Local Futures
Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse
Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse
The collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon. David Attenborough
Edward Fullbrook
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. The guys who run those companies and theyaremostly guys have gotten rich on the backs of literally all life on Earth. Their business model relies on the destruction of...
Jordan Engel
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser
Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University
Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University
TheFridays For Future (FFF)climate strike by high school students may well be one of the most important, yet hardly covered stories by the US media today. During the week of March 15th alone, 1.6 million strikers were counted across 125 countries. This environmental movement...
Otto Scharmer
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
Humanity has a lot of problems these days. Climate change, increasing economic inequality, crashing biodiversity, political polarization, and a global debt bubble are just a few of our worries. None of these trends can continue indefinitely without leading to a serious...
Richard Heinberg
What Is Neoliberalism?
What Is Neoliberalism?
A short summary
Colin Jenkins
The Farms of the Future
The Farms of the Future
Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...
Isabel Marlens
Public Ownership Is Back and This Is How We Do It
Public Ownership Is Back and This Is How We Do It
Jack Harmsworth from We Own It makes the case for why the UK must learn from its European neighbours and take back control of privatised industries.
Jack Harmsworth
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us From Climate Change
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us From Climate Change
Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth
Jo Confino
Controlling 5G: A Course in Obstacles
Controlling 5G: A Course in Obstacles
Across the United States, telecom providers have begun mapping their plans to deploy 5G small, microwave-emitting cellular sites throughout neighborhoods. Every person deserves to be informed about whats happening and whats within every households ability to control.
Katie Singer
If Life Wins There Will Be No Losers
If Life Wins There Will Be No Losers
How can we create a worldwide, permanent shift to regenerative culture in every sphere of life?
Ruth Gordon
Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words
Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words
The word sustainability, were it up to me, would be extinct, wiped out, kaput.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Russia-Gate's Monstrous Offspring
Russia-Gate's Monstrous Offspring
Russia-gate has shed any premise of being about Russian interference, writes Daniel Lazare, but the idea that America may in anyway be responsible for its own fate is of course unthinkable.
Daniel Lazare
China Is Not the Problem. Capitalism Is.
China Is Not the Problem. Capitalism Is.
Tom Friedman and Steve Bannon are, as usual, wrong. Hardship in the United States cant be blamed on Chinas economic war on democracy. Its the fault of American corporations and elites.
Nicole M. Aschoff
America's Reproductive Slaves
America's Reproductive Slaves
On Wednesday, the day it was announced that theU.S. birthrate fellfor the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconiananti-abortion lawin the country. That the two developments came at th
Chris Hedges
Wanting Fully Without Attachment
Wanting Fully Without Attachment
If you have had a spiritual practice or have experience with personal growth workshops, you have no doubt heard many times that letting go of attachment increases happiness and well-being. The principle is simple, but exactly what does it mean to let go of attachment, and...
Miki Kashtan
The Rising Tide of the Populist Right
The Rising Tide of the Populist Right
In the Americas, the Trump tsunami has swept across both continents and the pink tide of progressivism hasall but disappearedfrom the southern half of the hemisphere. In Europe, with the
John Feffer
What’s Wrong with Activism?
What’s Wrong with Activism?
Over the years I have often been asked how I became anactivist. The question of how individualsas individualsbecome involved in social change movements, fascinating as it may seem, can carry equally fascinating assumptions aboutactivismitself. It may imply a voluntary and...
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Before Healing, We Need Connection
Before Healing, We Need Connection
What we must do is incorporate the other peoplethe creeping people, and the standing people, and the flying people and the swimming peopleinto the councils of government. - Gary Snyder
Roger S. Gottlieb
We Protect You From Yourselves: Police, Oppression and the Rule of Law
We Protect You From Yourselves: Police, Oppression and the Rule of Law
What goes through the mind of a riot cop as he's beating you senseless? Spanish situationist Luis Navarro on policing, violence and the imposition of order.
Luis Navarro
What If Most People Love Violence?
What If Most People Love Violence?
Despite years of effort and sacrifice by millions, there has not been a mass shift toward nonviolence. Perhaps what's needed is a better understanding of the dark side of the human species.
Brian Martin
Creeping Toward Tyranny
Creeping Toward Tyranny
Capitalists, throughout history, have backed fascism to thwart even the most tepid forms of socialism
Chris Hedges
Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider Review – The Best Criticism of Identity Politics
Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider Review – The Best Criticism of Identity Politics
This riveting and inspiring study of race and class in the age of Trump argues that an emphasis on identity should lead to one on solidarity
Ben Tarnoff
The Relentless Factories of Hatred, Fear and Lies: on the Global Ultraconservative and Reactionary Waves
The Relentless Factories of Hatred, Fear and Lies: on the Global Ultraconservative and Reactionary Waves
There are two undeclared wars on the vast majority of the world's population, the destitute popular classes and the impoverished middle classes. Such double war requires a vast, ideological-mental industrial complex sprawled across the planet.
Boaventura De Sousa Santos
The Polarization Trap
The Polarization Trap
Over the past decade Ive watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split into irreconcilable political factions who disagree not only on the interpretation of...
Charles Eisenstein
Classifying Bodies, Denying Freedoms
Classifying Bodies, Denying Freedoms
I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty Id never met...
Che Ramsden
Elegant Simplicity and Right Relationship
Elegant Simplicity and Right Relationship
A left wing and a right wing belong to the same bird. The moment we see that we are all related, we start to see solutions.
Satish Kumar
To Decolonize Our Minds, Start With Words
To Decolonize Our Minds, Start With Words
Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isnt one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
Steven Newcomb
'Cultural Marxism': a Uniting Theory for Rightwingers Who Love to Play the Victim
'Cultural Marxism': a Uniting Theory for Rightwingers Who Love to Play the Victim
What dothe Australians columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter
Jason Wilson
The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice
The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice
Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.
Sandew Hira
Is 5G Worth the Risks?
Is 5G Worth the Risks?
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
Iishana Artra, PhD