10 Environmental Books We’re Reading This Spring (The Revelator)
From climate change to wildlife trafficking, these new books tackle the toughest problems of the day, along with vital solutions.
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Scientific Publishing Is a Rip-Off. We Fund the Research – It Should Be Free
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves.
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Can You Trust the Media? | Manufacturing Consent Explained
“Second Thought” takes a look at whose interests the corporate media serves, and evaluate whether we should trust mainstream news.
Read More Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System
How many of people’s mental health diagnoses are really just them struggling to function in a capitalist system that is amoral, destructive, overwhelming, overbearing, unsatisfying, and bereft of meaning?
Read More Immunity Passports: Does Social Solidarity Only Count When It Gets Us Back to the Pub?
If we really want a social consensus, if we really want the common good, if we really want everyone to trust in the collective, then we must decide to spurn the narrow, selfish, unaccountable elite that rules over us. We must decide, once and for all, to value the collective, the commons, the public good – not worship at the altar of profit and greed.
Read More The Universe Is Just Trying To See Itself
We each have an eye deep inside us, and it is all the same eye, and it is the universe’s eye.
Read More Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Cancel culture is not the road to reform. It is the road to tyranny.
Read More US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
Read More Oceanic Sharks and Rays Have Declined by 71% Since 1970 – A Global Solution Is Needed
Marine biologists have been raising the alarm for several decades now, but their warnings were often ignored. Now, new research has brought together disparate threads of data into a single, global analysis of shark and ray populations in the open ocean.
Read More How the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel
It is widely recognized that critics of Israel, no matter how well-founded the criticism, are routinely punished by both public and private institutions for their speech.
Read More The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Read More Vegan Preschool to Open in Australia
Sustainable Play Preschool will teach children about sustainability practices.
Read More New Zealand Vegan Milk Factory to Boost Nation’s Economy
In a national first, a New Zealand vegan milk factory will enable the growing, milling, and processing of oats into milk.
Read More Plant-Based Diets Crucial to Saving Global Wildlife, Says Report
The global food system is the biggest driver of destruction of the natural world, and a shift to predominantly plant-based diets is crucial in halting the damage, according to a report.
Read More You’re Not A Radical, You’re Just Sane
The status quo isn’t the baseline of normality, sanity is. A sane, healthy world would look wildly different from this one, and we need to help people get clear on the distinction so we can all start creating that world together.
Read More Papering Over the Rot
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Read More Dunedin Becomes Latest City To Back Regenerative ‘Doughnut Economics’
Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins has some brilliant news: his city is going doughnut.
Read More 2020 Ties 2016 as Earth’s Hottest Year on Record, Even Without El Niño to Supercharge It
The last six years were the six hottest recorded on the planet, and 2020 closed the warmest decade on record.
Read More Why Is the World Going to Hell? Netflix’s the Social Dilemma Tells Only Half the Story
The Social Dilemma offers us an opportunity to sense the ugly, psychopathic face shielding behind the mask of social media’s affability. But for those watching carefully the film offers more: a chance to grasp the pathology of the system itself that pushed these destructive social media giants into our lives.
Read More How Big Pharma & Psychiatry Gaslight Us: Interview with Bruce Levine
Clinical psychologist Dr Bruce Levine covers a wide range of topics related to deceit and corruption within the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry.
Read More The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have.
Read More Wonder Woman Is a Hero Only the Military-Industrial Complex Could Create
In preparation for the release of the latest Wonder Woman installment, we revisit Jonathan Cook’s review of the original 2017 Wonder Woman, peeling back the layers of comic-book fun to reveal below the film’s disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
Read More The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.
Read More The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs
The world is still very much locked into zealous worship of the great god known as capitalism. And it is choking the world to death.
Read More Ads All Tell Us To Kill Our Future. Worth Discussing?
Every time you avoid what the market economy wants you to do, you help push towards a better system, towards an evolution beyond this shithole machine.
Read More We Are the Terrorists
The US and its allies have been helping Saudi Arabia deliberately kill children and other civilians on mass scale in order to achieve a political goal. Which would of course be a perfect example of any standard definition of terrorism.
Read More Meet The Wrong Type of Jew, The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know Exists
Jewish Socialist Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi has been suspended from the UK Labour Party, likely due to her status as a prominent Jew willing to challenge the human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians and others by Israel.
Read More Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Blogger/journalist Caitlin Johnstone provides us with her latest thoughts on the devastating distortions of the mainstream narratives.
Read More The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask off the West’s War Machine
After four years of Trump, the war machine once again desperately needs a makeover.
Read More Yes, It’s All the Fault of Big Oil, Facebook and ‘The System’. But Let’s Talk About You This Time
The idea that individuals can’t solve the climate crisis has gained momentum in progressive circles. They say we can’t change the world by shaming each other for air travel or eating meat. But how much are ideals worth if they don’t demand sacrifices?
Read More This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Imperialism In Pumps
We should not be cheering for women rising to the top of a psychopathic war machine. We should be dismantling that war machine and rolling back all the conditions which led to it. True feminism, which is interested in guiding the world toward balance and heath in a way that benefits women and their children, would make this a priority.
Read More Chris Hedges: American Requiem
Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to the poor and minorities, the capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse.
Read More Humanity Has Trolled Itself Into An Awaken-Or-Die Situation
We are hurtling in the direction of dystopia and armageddon, and the powerful elites in the driver’s seat have made it abundantly clear that they have no intention of swerving from this trajectory. So what can we do? What is the one exit we have allowed ourselves?
Read More Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only for Our Future to Be Stolen From Us
There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change.
Read More The Great Unravelling: ‘I Never Thought I’d Live to See the Horror of Planetary Collapse’
We are the generation that is likely to witness the destruction of our Earth.
Read More A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Political blogger and activist Caitlin Johnstone shares her thoughts of the day about U.S. Empire and the precarious state of our society.
Read More Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
Journalist John Pilger has spent the last three weeks watching Julian Assange’s extradition trial at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Arena Online’s editor, Timothy Erik Ström.
Read More You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can’t Have Both.
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.
Read More Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
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.
Read More Joanna Macy: Post-doom with Michael Dowd and Barbara Cecil
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.
Read More Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix
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.
Read More Got Joint Pain? Why Dairy is a Bad Idea
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?
Read More More Than 200 Environmental Activists and Land Defenders Murdered in 2019
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.
Read More More Than 500 Dams Planned in Protected Areas Around the Globe, Study Finds
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.
Read More How to Make a Veganic No-Dig Garden
How to grow using no dig methods veganically, also known as “stock free”, without animal manures or other animal derived inputs.
Read More Couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara to Produce Film Exposing Link Between Factory Farms and Pandemics
New film The End of Medicine—created by award-winning British filmmaker Alex Lockwood and What the Health co-director Keegan Kuhn—aims to spotlight the role of animal agriculture in the rise of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19.
Read More Former Dairy Farms Now Make and Deliver Vegan Oat Milk
Refarm’d is helping former dairy farmers transition away from animal agriculture and produce and deliver vegan oat milk.
Read More ‘To Finish’; Looking at Language
‘Finishing’ is yet another of the words with which the animal use industry glosses over the monstrous activities of our species.
Read More Another Hiroshima Is Coming… Unless We Stop It Now
In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons – from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next.
Read More ‘Ground-Breaking’ Documentary Links Amazon Fires And Deforestation To Animal Agriculture
Moby, who executively produced the film, says it’s a ‘must-watch for anyone who is passionate about combating corruption’
Read More The End of Kings
The end of kings is near. It is time to scale decentralized trust networks to empower humanity to work, trade, and govern directly with each other without the need for rulers to rule us.
Read More As US Eviction Crisis Looms, Remember That Poverty Is Weaponized By The Elite
CNBC News reports that Americans are looking at the possibility of up to 40 million evictions in the coming months as unemployment payments expire and a federal moratorium on evictions runs out.
Read More Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium
Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano look at the scramble for Bolivia’s lithium resources led by billionaire Elon Musk in the context of the coup d’état.
Read More Cancel Government Secrecy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Want a healthy world? Stop interfering in people’s ability to clearly see what’s going on in their world, in their nation and in themselves, and a healthy system will naturally arise.
Read More Othering & Belonging: An Interview with john a. powell
john a. powell is one of the foremost public intellectuals in the areas of civil rights, racism, ethnicity, housing and poverty.
Read More Methane Emissions Have Jumped a Staggering Nine Percent Since Last Decade
Emissions of methane – a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide – have risen by nine percent in a decade driven by humanity’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday.
Read More Hundreds Of ‘Elite Athletes’ Interested In Plant-Based Diet Following ‘The Game Changers’
Producer James Wilks says the documentary has inspired ‘Olympic gold medalists in various sports to UFC fighters to top players in the NBA’.
Read More How to Stop the Next Pandemic: U.N. Report Links Outbreaks to Climate Crisis & Industrial Farming
A new UN report says COVID-19 has a zoonotic origin, meaning it jumped from animals to humans, and the U.N. report finds that such diseases are spreading with greater frequency due to human activity, including industrial farming and the climate crisis.
Read More Fractal Agent Smiths
The struggle of humankind is a struggle to become more conscious. Like a fractal, you see this same struggle to expand consciousness happening on every level of humanity no matter how far out or how far in you zoom the camera. But within every possible recursion of the fractal, you’ve got forces opposing that expansion of consciousness.
Read More Cheyenne River Sioux Chair Offers to Rip Down Mount Rushmore—”Free of Charge… By Myself If I Must”
Describing the iconic South Dakota mountain carving that depicts the heads of famous U.S presidents as nothing but a monument to “our molesters,” the chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation this week said he would willingly tear down Mount Rushmore if given the chance—with or without help—and pay for its destruction personally.
Read More This Russia-Afghanistan Propaganda Story: Anything to Prevent Peace Breaking out?
Western propagandists are turning this completely empty story into the mainstream consensus, not with facts, not with evidence, and certainly not with journalism, but with sheer brute force of narrative control. And just in time to prevent the possibility of steps towards peace between the U.S. and Russia.
Read More Arctic Hits Hottest Temperature on Record at 100.4 Degrees Fahrenheit
“100°F about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today in Siberia. That’s a first in all of recorded history. We are in a climate emergency.”
Read More ‘They’re Trying to Kill Us’: A New Documentary about Racism and Food Justice
A new documentary starring prolific advocate Bad Ass Vegan (aka John Lewis) will focus on racism, disease, and food justice.
Read More The Taste of Wild Water
Author Stephen Buhner shares a personal experience of intimacy with the natural world and the transmission of this connection through the generations.
Read More May All Be Revealed
Written by Caitlin Johnstone “If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~...
Read More Why You Should Go Animal-Free: 18 Arguments for Eating Meat Debunked
Unpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clear.
Read More Climate Models for Upcoming UN Report Show ‘Incredibly Alarming’ Risk of Runaway Warming
The climate community and the general public are in for some “incredibly alarming” worst-case scenarios as modelling for the United Nations’ next major climate risk assessment takes shape.
Read More Making Sense of the Downward Spiral: Daniel Schmachtenberger
America’s cities are ablaze with rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This comes in the heightened tensions of the coronavirus crisis. How can we make sense of this spiral of polarisation, and are bad actors taking advantage of the situation? This is a conversation with evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger hosted by Rebel Wisdoom.
Read More 16 Essential Books About Environmental Justice, Racism and Activism [The Revelator]
These books provide insight into the problems that plague people and the planet, while also offering solutions for a more just future.
Read More I Reckon We Can Win This Thing
All in all, I reckon we can win this thing. Not the anti-policing protests necessarily; I don’t quite know what will happen with those in the long run. I mean the whole thing. Winning it all. Actually getting out from underneath the elite and beginning to function as a healthy organism on this planet.
Read More The Top 10 Ocean Biodiversity Hotspots to Protect
A new study took a deep dive into critical aspects of ocean life to identify the areas of the high seas most worthy of conservation effort.
Read More Warmest May on Record, Siberia 10C Hotter
Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth’s permafrost, as the world experienced its warmest May on record, the European Union’s climate monitoring network said Friday.
Read More We Are Watching The Story Of America Crash Headlong Into The Reality Of America
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The U.S. empire is losing control of the narrative.
Read More Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
Being fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Read More Contact with the Sacred
Published by KarmaTube With spectacular visual images, this film reminds us of the necessity of...
Read More Do You Consent To The New Cold War?
Written by Caitlin Johnstone The world’s worst Putin puppet is escalating tensions with Russia...
Read More Meat Is Not Essential. Why Are We Killing for It?
For years, we have knowingly destroyed our planet for the sake of a protein preference. Now, we are sending humans to their deaths.
Read More From Emergency to Emergence
The COVID-19 crisis has imposed immense hardship on billions of people. But that hardship is dwarfed by what lies ahead if we continue on our current path. Now we must step up to prevent the collapse of the regenerative systems by which Earth creates and maintains the conditions we need to exist.
Read More Life May Itself Be A Koan
The koan is a dilemma, a mystery which the rational mind cannot solve. The key to the resolution of a koan is a shift in the being of the student which allows for a new understanding of the question itself.
Read More Wealth Shown to Scale: An Interactive Page
This interactive web page helps us to get our heads around the matter, while providing a number of illuminating (if greatly disturbing) facts about income inequality in the modern world.
Read More Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?
If you are like most people, you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in U.S. labs. It is no coincidence.
Read More Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned this development, which is not yet incorporated into climate models, could put the temperature goals set by the Paris Agreement out of reach.
Read More Farmers in New Zealand Are Offended by Climate Change Curriculum
Advice to eat less meat and dairy is seen as “biting the hand that feeds.”
Read More Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
“Meat Improves Mental Health,” mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the “study” was funded by an “unrestricted research grant through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.” Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat.
Read More Planet of the Humans: Review by Richard Heinberg
The recent film, “Planet of the Humans,” has led to some serious controversy within the world of alternative energies. One of the world’s leading advocates for making the shift away from fossil fuels offers his perspective.
Read More Forest Service Recommends Hugging Trees While You Can’t Hug Others
The Icelandic Forestry Service is encouraging people to hug trees while social distancing measures prevent them from hugging other people.
Read More Hilarious Kim Jong Un Jokes, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Blogger Caitlin Johnstone drops a series of humorous/painful truth bombs from her recent musings on U.S. Empire and more…
Read More Pandemic as Practice: With Joanna Macy & Jonathan Gustin
Working together, we can awaken the human soul to meet this pandemic. Working together, we can use our “dark-adjusted eyes” to see the coronavirus crisis as a spiritual call from Soul.
Read More U.N. Chief Says There’s a Bigger Threat Than Coronavirus
In Earth Day speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenges President Donald Trump on fossil fuel subsidies.
Read More Microplastics Found in Antarctic Sea Ice Samples for First Time, Scientists Say
For the first time, microscopic plastic pollution has been found in Antarctic sea ice samples collected more than a decade ago, suggesting that microplastic concentrations in Southern Sea ice may be higher than previously believed.
Read More Dress Rehearsal for the Apocalypse
As we look out on silent, empty, streets, watching while statistics of the sick and the dead skyrocket out of control, and the sickening chill of fear clutches at our hearts for our loved ones whom we are powerless to protect, the question that hangs in the air is, ‘Why?’
Read More Covid-19: The Rich, the Poor, the “Other”
The impact and consequences of the pandemic (for health and the economy) are much worse for the poorest sections of society and could devastate developing nations. It is making social inequality even more acute and while many communities are uniting, where a coordinated political response is called for, divisions predominate.
Read More 14 Inspiring New Environmental Books to Read During the Pandemic
New books by Carl Safina and other experts offer lessons for making this a better planet — for both humans and wildlife — even while we’re stuck at home.
Read More Finding Courage in Troubled Times
If you’re worried, it’s understandable. There’s panic in the air and anxiety in our bones. And fear is a healthy response to danger.
Read More Insect Populations on Land Are Down 50%, Study Shows
If you haven’t noticed as many bees, butterflies and fireflies as you used to, there’s a good reason for that.
Read More 10 Things We’ve Learned a Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
We know a lot more now about the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico and the risks of deep-water drilling, but that doesn’t mean we’re any safer.
Read More Conservationists Point at Pandemic as Reason to Protect Wildlife
As scientists believe the new coronavirus may have been passed to humans in a live animal market in China, wildlife advocates say rolling back efforts to protect threatened animal populations has dire consequences.
Read More The Coming Ecosystem Collapse Is Already Here for Coral
The Great Barrier Reef is in the midst of its third mass-bleaching event in the last five years. This year’s heat-induced bleaching—which occurs during the region’s summer season—is more severe than the previous two, with 25 percent of the reefs experiencing widespread bleaching.
Read More Global Lockdowns Might Reduce CO2 Emissions but Won’t Halt Climate Crisis, Scientists Say
There’s a difference between CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations of CO2
Read More How COVID-19 Took Hold and Why We Must End the Wildlife Trade
Here’s what we can do to make sure the critical mistakes made after the SARS outbreak won’t be made again.
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