By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
They say that your syntax always finds you out. Metaphors can be just as revealing. As George Lakoff observes, metaphors are the devices we use to frame the way we think about the world. In politics, according to Lakoff, it the competition for the frames--effectively, competition between the metaphors--that resolves electoral and political competition.
By Lasse Thiele, Degrowth.de
The degrowth movement has been developed in response to neoliberal reality, neoliberalism’s comically reductive view of human nature, its ecological blindness and the rise in social inequality it has brought about.
By Eric Zencey, The Daly News
Ecological Economics represents the extension into economics of the thermodynamic revolution of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
By Ivo Mosley, Positive Money blog
Extreme inequality is the main economic, political and cultural evil of our times.
By Dan Bednarz, Health after Oil
American institutions are in decline and rife with corruption brought on by a combination of hitting the limits to growth while under the control of neoliberal capitalism.
By Shane Burley, ROAR Magazine
If we want to envision an anti-austerity movement that can genuinely empower people, we will have to create one that moves beyond austerity altogether.
By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt blog
Argentina is playing hardball with the vulture funds, which have been trying to force it into an involuntary bankruptcy.
By Jerome Roos, ROAR Magazine
As the EU sells its soul by pushing Greece to privatize its natural and cultural heritage, ordinary citizens are mobilizing to save their common wealth.
By Corinna Genschel, Red Pepper
The blockade of the European Central Bank in 2012 and 2013 started as a German initiative but has triggered an international movement responding to a Europe in crisis.
By Patrick Noble, Feasta
The illusion that progress will solve the problems of the future is presented to obscure the ancient truth that future-problems are created by the present.
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
While the ecological and infrastructure impacts of climate change are becoming ever more self-evident, what about the social impacts?
By Dario Gentili, Andrea Mura, Open Democracy
In a precarious context induced by a struggle for the essential, one term has re-emerged as indispensable, providing many of us with a new sense of direction, creation and sharing, and ultimately, like a boomerang, assuming the ‘austere’ dignity of that which cannot be renounced: the commons.