George Monbiot clearly illustrates how the deep-seated rot of consumerism has invaded and seriously harmed nearly every domain of life – from our own minds to society at large, to our fellow Earthlings and ultimately the entire biosphere. A must watch!
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From climate change to wildlife trafficking, these new books tackle the toughest problems of the day, along with vital solutions.
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Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves.
Read More “Second Thought” takes a look at whose interests the corporate media serves, and evaluate whether we should trust mainstream news.
Read More 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 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 We each have an eye deep inside us, and it is all the same eye, and it is the universe’s eye.
Read More Cancel culture is not the road to reform. It is the road to tyranny.
Read More 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 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 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 Our climate models could be missing something big.
Read More Sustainable Play Preschool will teach children about sustainability practices.
Read More In a national first, a New Zealand vegan milk factory will enable the growing, milling, and processing of oats into milk.
Read More 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 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 The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Read More Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins has some brilliant news: his city is going doughnut.
Read More The last six years were the six hottest recorded on the planet, and 2020 closed the warmest decade on record.
Read More 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 Clinical psychologist Dr Bruce Levine covers a wide range of topics related to deceit and corruption within the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry.
Read More British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have.
Read More 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 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 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 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 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 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 Blogger/journalist Caitlin Johnstone provides us with her latest thoughts on the devastating distortions of the mainstream narratives.
Read More After four years of Trump, the war machine once again desperately needs a makeover.
Read More 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 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 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 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 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 We are the generation that is likely to witness the destruction of our Earth.
Read More 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 grow using no dig methods veganically, also known as “stock free”, without animal manures or other animal derived inputs.
Read More 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 Refarm’d is helping former dairy farmers transition away from animal agriculture and produce and deliver vegan oat milk.
Read More ‘Finishing’ is yet another of the words with which the animal use industry glosses over the monstrous activities of our species.
Read More 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 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 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 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 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 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 john a. powell is one of the foremost public intellectuals in the areas of civil rights, racism, ethnicity, housing and poverty.
Read More 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 A new documentary starring prolific advocate Bad Ass Vegan (aka John Lewis) will focus on racism, disease, and food justice.
Read More Author Stephen Buhner shares a personal experience of intimacy with the natural world and the transmission of this connection through the generations.
Read More Written by Caitlin Johnstone “If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~...
Read More 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 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 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 These books provide insight into the problems that plague people and the planet, while also offering solutions for a more just future.
Read More 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 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 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 Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The U.S. empire is losing control of the narrative.
Read More Being fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Read More Published by KarmaTube With spectacular visual images, this film reminds us of the necessity of...
Read More Written by Caitlin Johnstone The world’s worst Putin puppet is escalating tensions with Russia...
Read More 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 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 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 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 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 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 Advice to eat less meat and dairy is seen as “biting the hand that feeds.”
Read More “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 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 The Icelandic Forestry Service is encouraging people to hug trees while social distancing measures prevent them from hugging other people.
Read More Blogger Caitlin Johnstone drops a series of humorous/painful truth bombs from her recent musings on U.S. Empire and more…
Read More 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 In Earth Day speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenges President Donald Trump on fossil fuel subsidies.
Read More 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 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 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 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 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 If you haven’t noticed as many bees, butterflies and fireflies as you used to, there’s a good reason for that.
Read More 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 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 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 There’s a difference between CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations of CO2
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