Human rights
The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
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New Zealand’s PM Wants More Online Censorship For The War In Ukraine
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern continued her crusade for the expansion of internet censorship during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, this time using the war in Ukraine.
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Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet
British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.
Read More Russia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’
The former president’s confusion over the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine should lead to western soul-searching, not mirth.
Read More They’re Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
We are not being protected by a compassionate alliance of corporations and governments who only want us to know the truth, we are being manipulated and oppressed by an oligarchic empire that wants us to believe lies. That’s why they’re locking up Assange, that’s why they’re censoring the internet, that’s why they’re filling our minds with propaganda, and that’s why we can’t let them win.
Read More Israel’s PR Problem, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Israel’s mounting PR crisis boils down to the fact that its violence and oppression isn’t happening in some far off land as in the case with US wars, it’s happening right at home surrounded by video cameras and enforced by police and soldiers who are not adept PR spinmeisters.
Read More Elon Musk Isn’t a Threat to Society’s Health. All Billionaires Are
The mega-rich buy up media outlets precisely because a lie is more likely to fly than the truth – including the lie that they are invaluable.
Read More Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill
The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.
Read More Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
Read More Social Media Giants Allow Hate Speech Against Russia but Silence Israel’s Critics
Silicon Valley’s decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West
Read More Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war.
Read More The West’s Hands in Ukraine are as Bloody as Putin’s
If it succeeds, the West’s war machine will continue trundling over the bodies of the poor and marginalized as it drives us ever faster towards ecological collapse.
Read More Russia-Ukraine: Western Media Are Acting As Cheerleaders for War
Right now, we need voices from Russia to understand what Putin thinks and wants, not what the BBC’s “chief international correspondents” think he wants. We need information sources ready to quickly challenge both western and Russian “fake news”. And most of all we need to stop with our racist view of the world, in which we are always the Good Guys and they are always the Bad Guys, and in which our suffering matters and the suffering of others doesn’t.
Read More Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
You’d think a society devoted to truth and freedom, the kind of society western powers purport to be trying to defend in Ukraine, would not require a Ministry of Truth to protect us from “disinformation” about a government long targeted by the US-centralized empire, or from trying to seek out alternative perspectives beyond the homogeneous blanket of authorized mainstream narratives.
Read More Uniting in Love and Rage against Corporate Power
One problem that arises from a corrupted and ubiquitous corporate media is that if we are not directly involved in a particular campaign on issues like climate change, press freedom, anti-racism, bodily sovereignty, or anti-surveillance, we are manipulated by the corporate media to see people on another issue as marginal, misinformed, illogical, hypocritical, or simply nasty.
Read More Why are Most People Cowards? Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism
“Authoritarianism in religion and science, let alone politics, is becoming increasingly accepted, not particularly because so many people explicitly believe in it but because they feel themselves individually powerless and anxious. So what else can one do…except follow the mass political leader…or follow the authority of customs, public opinion, and social expectations?
Read More Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience...
Read More Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is...
Read More The Left’s Radical Shift to Giving Up Bodily and Cognitive Autonomy
The left needs to start insisting again on the critical importance of bodily and cognitive autonomy – and to stop shooting itself in the foot.
Read More The Tipping Point (by Infinite Waters)
As the powers that be exert more and more effort to impose fear, social division, and soul-crushing narratives, Ralph Smart invites us to consider the ways our spirits can resist this oppression and turn to love instead. By keeping love steadfastly in the driver’s seat, we find a tipping point into a much more sustainable world drawing steadily nearer.
Read More Divide, Conquer; Unite, Heal
Whether deliberately or not, a situation has been engineered to dispose the public toward division. It is an old formula: Enemies are among us! The unclean put us all at risk! The heretics will bring the wrath of God upon us all! Let us recognize that ancient formula and how closely the dominant Covid narrative conforms to it.
Read More The COVID Fear Response and Wider Psychology With Dr Paris Williams: The Plant a Seed Podcast EP 16
In this conversation, Dan and Jono have a conversation with Dr Paris Williams and dive deep into his thoughts about the Covid 19 response in New Zealand and how fear shapes our behavior and the way we think and perceive the world. It’s an authentic look at the government’s response and its effects on the people in NZ.
Read More A Path Will Rise to Meet Us
Written by Charles Eisenstein The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation...
Read More Have the Government & Ministry of Health Sought To Restrict Public Knowledge of Vaccine Risks?
The government has to face up to the lack of effectiveness and safety of the Pfizer vaccine. It has to come clean with the public. Historically drugs are pulled off the market after 50 associated deaths. In little NZ we are in the hundreds and counting.
Read More Paul Kingsnorth: Why I Changed Sides in the Vaccine Wars
Esteemed activist and ecologist Paul Kingsforth says that the crystallising moment arrived when he woke up to the news that the Austrian government had ‘interned an entire third of the population’. This move, he writes, sent a ‘chill down my spine’.
Read More Elements of Refusal
Drug companies, regulators, public health agencies, doctors, and scientists have to stop patronizing us if we are ever to trust them. They have to stop manipulating us. They have to stop cheating and hiding, bullying and censoring, bribing and coercing the public. Then, if honest research shows us that the vaccines are necessary and safe, we will trust that research and happily comply. Until then, we will not merely “hesitate”; we will obstinately refuse to receive an injection pushed upon us by people we do not trust.
Read More The Covid Vaccine Mandates: A Trauma-Informed Perspective
The New Zealand’s response to the Covid crisis – their ‘no jab, no job’ policy – is tearing the fabric of our society, and could potentially cause more harm than the virus itself. Dr Paris Williams invites us to explore this crisis through a trauma-informed lens, suggesting that this can offer us a way out of this mess.
Read More The America that Almost Was and Yet May Be
The assassination of president John F. Kennedy represented a turning away from a promising future for the United States – from the promise of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” to a sham government powered by the elite and self-interested industry. Is there any way this can be reversed?
Read More Netflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date
Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for its American subscribers on October 24th, just three days prior to a significant court date in Assange’s fight against extradition from the UK to the United States on October 27th.
Read More The Great New Normal Purge
Relentless official propaganda demonizing “the Unvaccinated” is being pumped out by the corporate and state media, government leaders, health officials, and shrieking fanatics on social media. “The Unvaccinated” are the new official “Untermenschen,” an underclass of subhuman “others” the New Normal masses are being conditioned to hate.
Read More Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists
California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet.
Read More Israel’s Big Lie: This Isn’t Self Defense — It’s a War Crime, Aided and Abetted by the U.S.
Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza are a lie.
Read More Fifteen Thoughts on Palestine
#1 – You don’t get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That’s not a thing.
Read More Irish MP Names the “Elephant in the Room” about Israel
We somehow find ourselves in this extraordinary situation in which it takes enormous courage to call out the last remaining openly apartheid, openly racist state on the Planet (Israel). This Irish MP demonstrates such courage, speaking truth to power and standing up for the equal rights of Palestinians and all people. Please watch and share!
Read More We Are Living Through a Time of Fear – Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other
We are now firmly in a time of fear – not only of the virus, but of each other. Fear destroys solidarity. Fear forces us to turn inwards to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Fear refuses to understand or identify with the concerns of others.
Read More 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 May All Be Revealed
Written by Caitlin Johnstone “If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~...
Read More Revolution needs to create an Evolution
If the gap between those who have and those who do not grows to a breaking point, then revolt and revolution will take place. History has shown us that. Let’s all work together to evolve in a more peaceful manner.
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 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 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 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 1 Year Since Julian Assange’s Arrest: A Panel Discussion
A panel discussion marking one year since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and arrested by British police. Assange is fighting extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison on the first-ever charges of espionage for publishing truthful information in the public interest.
Read More The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
In a system where sociopaths are rewarded with wealth, and where wealth equals power, we naturally find ourselves ruled by sociopaths. They manipulate our faulty perceptions of objective reality to amass wealth and power, which they use to grab more.
Read More Will Covid-19 spur a Peoples’ Bailout for the World’s Poorest?
The question is whether Covid-19 will awaken us to the stark inequalities of our world, or does it simply represent a new cause of impoverishment for the vast swathes of humanity who have long been disregarded by the public’s conscience?
Read More US Escalates Warmongering Against Venezuela Because Of… Drug Trafficking?
The Trump administration is sending Navy ships to patrol Venezuela, the latest escalation against the government targeted by an aggressive hybrid US regime change intervention.
Read More The US Is Using Germ Warfare On Sanctioned Nations
In some very important ways the US government has clearly seen the coronavirus outbreak not as a dangerous humanitarian crisis, but as a strategic advantage to be weaponized against governments which refuse to bow to its empire-building agendas.
Read More On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View
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
Read More Joaquin Phoenix’s Inspiring Oscar Speech: Love and Compassion for All Beings…
On perhaps one of the biggest nights of his life, PETA’s 2019 Person of the Year, Joaquin Phoenix, wasn’t thinking about himself. As he accepted the Oscar for Best Actor on Sunday, February 9, he was thinking about what else he could do to help end speciesism.
Read More What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Assange risks 175 years in prison for the publication of secret US government documents revealing U.S. war crimes and torture, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Guantanamo even though the publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. But if Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one.
Read More U.S. ‘Democracy’ Once Again Showing Its True Colours
After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled with scandals, all of which worked against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of anointed establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, the 2020 Democratic presidential primary elections officially began with a massive scandal working against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of an establishment favorite.
Read More Politics as Usual Isn’t Working: It’s Time for a Revolution
Falling life expectancy. Rising economic inequality. Power concentrated in hands unelected elites. An environment poisoned by profits. For some, the crises present day America faces are existential. As such, the political response needs to be commensurate to the moment and nothing short of a root and branch political revolution. For others, this revolutionary impulse on the Right and Left spells disaster.
Read More America: Land of Make-Believe
The embrace of collective self-delusion marks the death spasms of all civilizations. We are in the terminal stage.
Read More The Primary Mechanism Of Your Oppression Is Not Hidden At All
The primary mechanism of our oppression and exploitation is happening right out in front of our faces.
Read More Chris Hedges & Ray Saurez Discuss “A People’s History of the USA”
Chris Hedges discusses the importance of historian Howard Zinn for a fuller understanding of American history, with journalist Ray Suarez, author of ‘Truth has a Power of its Own: A Conversation about A People’s History with Howard Zinn.’
Read More The Disaster of Utopian Engineering
The problem is that our utopian engineers in their giddy dismantling of an economic and democratic system, as well as their draining of state resources in the wars they prosecute overseas, have dynamited the tools that could save us. They have left us no option but to revolt and remove them from power.
Read More The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Read More Guantánamo’s Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World
Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002.
Read More MLK and the Ghost of an Untrue Dream
In his keynote address for the Civil Rights Movement’s March on Washington, DC in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his despair and disappointment that a century after emancipation, freedom still was not a lived reality in the United States of America
Read More How Democracies Die
Democracy was not extinguished in 2016 when Trump was elected. It was slowly strangled to death by the Republican and Democratic parties on behalf of their corporate masters.
Read More So The US Is Invading Iraq Again
Though It won’t be as exciting as last time. If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife and then making her cook him dinner. But it is just as much a violent violation of personal sovereignty in both instances.
Read More The Issue Before Us is Death… (Sermon by Chris Hedges)
You don’t have to subscribe to any particular philosophy or religious belief to appreciate the truth and wisdom within this sermon given by Chris Hedges.
Read More Chris Hedges: The Myth of the Glory of War
If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war.
Read More Kill GDP to Help Save the Planet
There’s a problem with America’s favorite statistic: GDP. It avoids pretty much everything that’s actually, truly, really good for society, including the importance of robust ecology. Still, it’s the biggest measure of what’s happening with the economy and used around the world, even though horribly flawed.
Read More The Impeachment’s Moral Hypocrisy
If our political leaders truly want to restore the rule of law and uphold the constitution, then why didn’t they impeach Bush and Obama (and Trump for his ongoing complicity) for starting illegal wars, assassinating U.S. citizens without due process, carrying out illegal torture, mass spying on the U.S. citizens, and many other serious human rights abuses.
Read More Hope Lies in the Streets
Hope lies in the streets. Millions of people in Hong Kong, India, Chile, France, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon understand. It is time to join them.
Read More The Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise
Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.
Read More Indigenous Bolivia Ready to go to War Against Fascism
3 weeks after a fascist coup and ousting of democratically elected president Evo Morales, a journalist visits Bolivia to learn about this crisis from the perspective of the indigenous people.
Read More Reconciling Ecological Imperatives and the Right to Food at a Time of Bio-Ethical Crisis
Richard Falk discusses an extremely disturbing evolving situation by labeling it ‘the first bio-ethical crisis to confront humanity.’ It is bio-ethical in the primary sense that the challenges posed are fundamentally directed at the wellbeing and even survival of the species as a whole, and this crisis has an ethical character because knowledge and resources exist to overcome these challenges, and yet action is not being taken.
Read More Glenn Greenwald’s Exclusive Interview With Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Who Was Deposed in a Coup
Evo Morales, who served as president of Bolivia for 13 years and presided over extraordinary economic growth and a reduction of inequality praised even by his critics, announced that he was resigning the presidency under duress, with implicit threats from the Bolivian military and links to the U.S. strongly indicated.
Read More Chris Hedges On The Rise & Fall of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges provides a compelling summary of the rise and imminent fall of the U.S. Empire, and its associated global corporate power and terrorizing of much of the world with illegal coups, sanctions, violence and war.
Read More The Great American Shakedown
The U.S. Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are perplexed. They presented hours of evidence of an impeachable offense, and yet it has made no difference-public opinion is not moved. The liberal class and the Democratic Party leadership have failed to understand that they, along with the traditional Republican elites, have squandered their credibility. No one believes them. And no one should.
Read More I Never Saw a World So Fragmented!
It is amazing how easily, without resistance, the Western empire is managing to destroy “rebellious” countries that are standing in its way.
Read More Cuba: the Tragic Beacon of Imperfect Possibility
Miki Kashtan celebrates all that this small island has managed in spite of enormous obstacles, with its determined, solidarity-bound, embattled, vibrant, alive, intent, imaginative, sensuous, friendly, committed population.
Read More Welcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism
As distinct as the protests seem, the uprisings rocking Bolivia, Lebanon, and scores of other countries all share a common theme.
Read More Peter Singer on the Lives You Can Save
In Moral Philosopher Peter Singer’s hands, the questions that motivate a moral life are startlingly simple. But if you take them seriously, living morally can be both very rewarding and very challenging.
Read More Open Letter to Roger Hallam
Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, has been accused of “anti-semitism” by big media for words he spoke taken out of context, leading to a massive backlash against the activist. This points to a much broader problem within mainstream media that climate activists need to understand: Big media is intertwined with other power centers, and they will fight tooth and nail against anyone who seriously challenges the status quo.
Read More Sustainable Home Decor Guide: Ethical and Eco-Friendly Design Tips
Sustainable home designs can help both people and businesses avoid having a negative impact on the environment. By choosing an eco-friendly manufacturer, designer, or by simply looking deeper into the footprint and profile of the materials and companies they work with, people can reduce their carbon footprint by being more conscious of the decor they put in their homes.
Read More More on the U.S.-Backed Bolivia Coup: Stealing Bolivia’s Lithium?
Bolivia’s president Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before being forced into exile by a miltary coup November 10, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. Bolivia has suffered a series of coups, often conducted by the military and the oligarchy on behalf of transnational mining companies. Initially, these were tin firms, but now the main target is its massive deposits of lithium, crucial for the electric car.
Read More Neoliberalism Backfires
Massive, continuous demonstrations in the streets around the world bespeak a universal threat that neoliberalism’s self-immolation will grow worse and worse if it continues its horribly stale rotted emphasis on globalization and austerity of social programs as the answers for progress. It’s backfiring.
Read More Mainstream Journalists Who Refuse To Defend Dissident Journalists Are Worshippers Of Power
It isn’t that those who work in mainstream news media are ignorant. They’re subservient. They’ve made a lifelong commitment to continue to worship at the altar of power, no matter what form that power takes.
Read More Assange in Court
The campaign of demonisation and dehumanisation against Julian, based on government and media lie after lie, has led to a situation where he can be slowly killed in public sight, and arraigned on a charge of publishing the truth about government wrongdoing, while receiving no assistance from “liberal” society.
Read More The Revolution Isn’t Being Televised: Media uninterested in protest movements around the world
Which protest movements interest corporate media has little to do with their righteousness or popularity, and much more to do with whom they are protesting against. If you’re fighting against corporate power or corruption in a US-client state, don’t expect many TV cameras to show up; that revolution is rarely televised.
Read More Climate Action: Only the Most Radical Approach Will Work
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.
Read More The Wounds of War in Afghanistan
Recovering from a broken hip, peace activist Kathy Kelly reflects on her experiences with people disabled and traumatized by war.
Read More Youth vs. Apocalypse: An Allied Approach to Climate Justice Leadership
Isha Clarke of Youth vs. Apocalypse discusses how their group is redesigning the climate justice movement to centralize justice and provide a platform for youth of color and indigenous youth. YvA is doing deep work to build local, national and global coalitions with other youth movements and adult allies.
Read More Nonviolence Denial Is As Dangerous As Climate Denial
Persistent willful ignorance of necessary knowledge can be deadly. This is true of denial of climate collapse. It is also true of denial of the tools and power of nonviolent action.
Read More To Confront Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Democracy
Marit Hammond, a lecturer in environmental politics at Keele University in the U.K., advocates for the necessity of an “ecological democracy” in order to meet the climate emergency urgently and sustainably. In this interview, Hammond offers insights on what this new form of democracy would look like and how we can get there.
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