Recent Articles

• You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can’t Have Both.
  By The CNCL Team
  A nation that cannot exist without ceaseless war is not actually a nation at all: it’s an ongoing military operation with some suburbs and schools mixed in. This is true of Israel, and on a larger scale it is true of the globe-spanning, empire-like oligarchic world order that is loosely centralized around the United States. […]
• Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
  By The CNCL Team
  Living on the same planet as armageddon weapons and a global contract of mutually assured destruction should be something that you are acutely aware of, and something you have grappled with on an existential level to the fullest extent possible. […]
• Greenland Succumbs
  By Robert Hunziker
  Greenland's ice is melting at an accelerating rate, which has alarming implications for human society as we know it. […]
• Freakish Arctic Fires Alarmingly Intensify
  By Robert Hunziker
  NASA satellite images of fires in eastern Siberia depict an inferno of monstrous proportions, nothing in modern history compares. And, as of July, it’s intensifying. Should people be concerned? Answer: Yes, and double yes. […]
• Joanna Macy: Post-doom with Michael Dowd and Barbara Cecil
  By The CNCL Team
  Joanna Macy, Deep Ecologist and founder of "The Work that Reconnects," shares her wisdom for how to live a fulfilling life in these uncertain times. […]
• Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix
  By The CNCL Team
  In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it’s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it’s narrative. […]
• The World on Fire
  By Robert Hunziker
  Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wildfires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planet's largest ecosystems are going up in smoke. […]
• Got Joint Pain? Why Dairy is a Bad Idea
  By The CNCL Team
  Arthritis, joint pain, muscle aches. They’ve plagued us all at some point or another. But can joint pain be preventable through a mere change in diet? […]
• More Than 200 Environmental Activists and Land Defenders Murdered in 2019
  By The CNCL Team
  At least 212 environmental campaigners and land defenders, 40 percent of them from indigenous communities, were killed last year as they sought to protect their territories from incursions by mining interests, agribusiness, timber companies, and oil and gas corporations. […]
• More Than 500 Dams Planned in Protected Areas Around the Globe, Study Finds
  By The CNCL Team
  More than 500 dams are planned or already under construction within protected areas around the world, according to a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters. […]