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Globalization and Terror: The Violent Effects of Capitalist Culture

October 29, 2015 by Guest 3 Comments

While people around the world have been horrified by the beheadings and similar acts of wanton violence perpetrated by ISIS, most seem mystified by the origins of the anger that can lead to such atrocities.

Alternatives, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power

Why The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You To Know What Happened In Iceland

October 27, 2015 by Guest No Comments

Lee Camp - Redacted on Iceland. Three more Icelandic bankers including a chief executive have been given prison sentences as the country’s criminal investigations continue surrounding the crash of 2008.

General, Inappropriate

4 examples that show that poverty isn’t a natural human condition

October 17, 2015 by Thomas Pichon 3 Comments

Although Gates has a noble purpose trying to help eradicate poverty, he seems to be missing the main point: he is not addressing where poverty comes from and how it’s generated. His actions aim at attacking the symptoms only, not what has caused poverty in the first place.

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The Atoms of Democracy

October 16, 2015 by Huzaifa Zoomkawala 2 Comments

In elementary school we are presented the table of elements. Once Democritus had postulated the atom, it became a logical imperative for those that followed to reduce nature to a fixed set of elements. Some went further and broke the atom down so much so that very little remained except...

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The 10 Main Factors for Dissolving Neoliberal Ideology (Part 1)

October 15, 2015 by Thorsten Wiesmann 2 Comments

We need a clearer understanding of the process and practices through which the pathological space of social destruction comes into being. Thinking in terms of potentiality is an enormously powerful process – one that usually remains untapped, unused and unrecognized. Our thinking creates the world! But instead of discovering the...

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Do not go to COP my friend

October 14, 2015 by Abhishek Thakore 2 Comments

A short poem about my experiences with UN negotiations

Alternatives, Featured, Ideas, Power

The woman who chose to plant corn

by Guest 4 Comments

It is one kind of revolution to enter the halls of power with the intent to turn them against themselves; to (paraphrasing the Caribbean-American writer Audre Lord) use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house. It is a deeper kind of revolution to recognise the limitations of those tools,...

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Haciéndole frente al cambio climático desde la justicia y la interseccionalidad

October 11, 2015 by Guest No Comments

Apuntes para una sociedad civil organizada frente a la crisis climática

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Facing climate change through justice and intersectionality

October 10, 2015 by Guest 1 Comment

When we talk about climate change and the actions we must take to address it, we usually rely on two concepts or areas of action: mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of emissions we are unable to mitigate. In recent years, climate justice organizations in various...

Ideas, Money, Power, The story of poverty

Global Goals – The party’s over

October 8, 2015 by The Rules 5 Comments

The glitter has settled over New York, celebrities and world leaders have flown home and the party is over. A week after the adoption of the United Nations’ seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, we take a moment to reflect on the Global Goals and the efforts of The Rules community to...

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