Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A lively film promoting activism via video that is in itself a sophisticated example of the medium. With a personal narrative from author/activist Jon Cooksey, this is a rapid fire account of five problems that are bringing the human race to the brink of disaster due to ecological deterioration of the planet.
Interview with investigative journalist and author Michael C. Ruppert about his new book A Presidential Energy Policy.
As smash-and-grab capitalism collapses, the French economy shines
The happiest taxes on earth
Going Dutch
Capitalism’s fault lines (Richard Posner’s turnaround)
How to Boil a Frog – the movie
Sleep Dealer – science fiction from below
Dating guide for the left-wing writer
Chris Mooney: Much of the public just doesn’t “get” science
UK advertising rules save us from the climate lobbying mess in the US
Green movement ‘hijacked’ by politics
Monbiot: Funding for academic research has been taken over by business
G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’
A workers’ paradise found off Japan’s coast
Elizabeth Kolbert: “Earth Day has lost its edge” – we need millions in the street … and some stinky fish
At the polls, Icelanders punish conservatives
For China’s New Left, old values
A Government still addicted to petrol
UK police caught on tape trying to recruit protester as spy
Politicising the policing of public expression in an era of economic change
As it becomes impractical or impossible to provide massive federal aid to states on a continuous basis, the necessity to find local solutions to a persistent crisis may become more acute. For this reason an ongoing economic slump may end up feeding continued calls for secession as well as create receptivity to genuinely useful relocalization efforts.
British police arrest protesters before coal protest
How do environmentalists spot a mole?
Kettling: another special relationship
Rush builds a socialist revolution?
Among the implications of the implosion of the global economy over the last year is that the great quarrel of the Cold War years between capitalism and socialism was a contest between two dysfunctional and failure-prone systems. As peak oil becomes a fact of life, is it time to start looking for other options?
The world is entering a great paradigm shift and our place in it will be markedly different 10 or 20 years from now. The most alarming thing to remember is that 95 percent of us have not discovered that major changes are underway and are waiting for economic recovery and new jobs to open up.
In America, Labor Has an Unusually Long Fuse
European workers rebel as G-20 looms
Bageant: We’ve Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls — It’s Time to Do Something Meaningful
The killing-fields of inequality
