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Capitalism Meets Scientism: A Too Convenient Marriage?

The CNCL Team — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:44:55 +0000

We badly need policy reform to change the approach that led to the vast exaggeration of the pandemic by public health officials, elected officials, and our media.

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Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op

The CNCL Team — Sun, 09 May 2021 06:47:21 +0000

The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now.

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Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System

The CNCL Team — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 22:02:13 +0000

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?

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Why Is the World Going to Hell? Netflix’s the Social Dilemma Tells Only Half the Story

The CNCL Team — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 01:17:03 +0000

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.

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The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs

The CNCL Team — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:52:55 +0000

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.

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Ads All Tell Us To Kill Our Future. Worth Discussing?

The CNCL Team — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 09:45:16 +0000

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.

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Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only for Our Future to Be Stolen From Us

The CNCL Team — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:30:38 +0000

There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change.

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A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The CNCL Team — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:52:57 +0000

Political blogger and activist Caitlin Johnstone shares her thoughts of the day about U.S. Empire and the precarious state of our society.

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Planet of the Humans: Review by Richard Heinberg

The CNCL Team — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:43:52 +0000

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.

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On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View

The CNCL Team — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 05:44:32 +0000

The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe, and is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health

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Climate Action: Only the Most Radical Approach Will Work

The CNCL Team — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:16:48 +0000

Capitalism's drive for profit at all costs is responsible for the climate crisis. In order to have a hope of halting the damage and coping with what is already locked in, we will have to move beyond capitalism towards a society where the needs of the mass of people come first.

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This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It’s the First Extermination Event.

The CNCL Team — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 20:42:43 +0000

From the “insect apocalypse” to the “biological annihilation” of 60 percent of all wild animals in the past 50 years, life is careening across every planetary boundary that might stop it from experiencing a “Great Dying” once more. But this atrocity has no goelogical analogue. To call it the “sixth extinction event” is to make what is an active, organized eradication sound like some kind of passive accident. We are in the midst of the First Extermination Event.

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