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Creating the New World
A simplified explanation of the strategy to transform our society from a greedy plutocracy to a cooperative democracy, from our destructive path to a sustainable future, is that there …
Never Again Enough: Field Notes from a Drying West
The crucial question for Phoenix, for the Colorado, and for the greater part of the American West is this: How long will the water hold out?
A National Debate about Government Spying?
On 8 July 2013 the New York Times (NYT) published an editorial on the issue of National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Americans. The editorial described the issue as …
Laboratories for Nonviolent Defense
As the rest of the world gears up to battle with the 1%, George Lakey asks the vital question:
Education and Architecture In Black: Two Sides of the Same Coin
In order to fix education in America, we must realize that the institution of education is not synonymous with learning.
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Living in a One-Superpower World (or Edward Snowden vs. Robert Seldon Lady)
Our modern society of mass surveillance would protect the torturers involved in the War on Terror to prosecute the whistleblowers who divulge the truth.
Cruel Arithmetic and President Obama’s Big Speech
Dean Baker: Government spending and larger deficits are our best bet ways to get Americans back to work.
An Anarchistic Understanding of the Social Order: Environmental Degradation, Indigenous Resistance and a Place for the Sciences
Andrew Gavin Marshall looks at the indigenous struggle against neoliberalism and globalization.
The “Unusual” Yet Ubiquitous Left-Right Alliance: Towards an Anti-Establishment Center
A real dialogue between the the left and right may lead to a sort of political re-alignment.
McDonalds Tells Workers to Toil 70 Hours a Week, Use Ripoff Payroll Cards as Part of “Financial Literacy“
The use of math, one imagines, is intended to make the advice seem objective rather than cynical and self-serving.