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Live Cricket Inspire The Junior Cricketers

October 28, 2016 by Cricket Betting Badshah 1 Comment

Live Cricket Inspire The Junior Cricketers

Alternatives, Featured, Regenerative farming

Farmers regaining control of their seeds: the alternative to Monsanto in the Philippines

October 25, 2016 by Guest 1 Comment

In the aftermath of the Monsanto Tribunal (The Hague, 14-16 October 2016) Cris Panerio reflects on the impact of Monsanto in the Philippines and on alternative and more respectful ways of doing agriculture.

Featured, Ideas

Nuestra mejor oportunidad para enfriar el planeta podría estar bajo nuestros pies

September 27, 2016 by Guest No Comments

Estudios sugieren que regenerar al suelo dándole la espalda a la agricultura industrial tiene la llave para jaquear al cambio climático.

Capitalism is Just a Story, Featured, Ideas, Power, Secrets, The story of poverty

‘Good news’ claiming ‘falling global poverty’ isn’t news at all

by The Rules No Comments

Media reporting that heralds the success of global poverty reduction strategies making claims such as "the number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.90 per person per day) has tumbled by half in two decades" is still very much routine. However, articles like Nicholas Kristof's recent piece in the New...

Featured, Ideas, Keep Connecting Dots..., Money, Power

The Global Development Narrative and “Strategic ambiguity”

September 19, 2016 by Guest No Comments

According to Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, global subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, both indirect and direct, amounted in 2015 to $5.3 trillion dollars. Or to frame it another way, 6.5% of global GDP. Roughly $10m per minute. That’s right you read...

Commons, Featured, Keep Connecting Dots..., Money, Power

Connecting the Dots the P2P Way: The Commons as the response to the structural crises of the global system

June 30, 2016 by Guest 2 Comments

The Connecting the Dots series has convincingly shown a number of interconnected reasons why the global system is in crisis, and why there is no way out without a structural transformation of the dominant neoliberal system. In our contribution, we want to stress the key importance of what we call...

General

Bruce Lee and the Golden Protest

June 28, 2016 by Vishwa Jay No Comments

The idea of ancient wisdom applied to modern activism is not a new one. But the way we think has to change.

Capitalism is Just a Story, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Keep Connecting Dots..., The story of poverty, Themes

The great lie of living on a dead planet

June 22, 2016 by Joe Brewer 9 Comments

The biggest lies hide right out in the open. They are so pervasive that we simply do not have eyes to see them. Our brains are hardwired for novelty and difference — so we filter out common things like the nose that is always in our line of sight. No one has...

General

Some random thought

June 18, 2016 by Jules No Comments

Growing up in a Third World country I didn't need that much convincing that there is something wrong in the system.

Alternatives, Featured, Ideas

Ivory Towers in a world without elephants?

June 2, 2016 by Joe Brewer 3 Comments

What happens when too much of the academic world operates as if it was in a fantasy novel? We’ve all heard about “ivory towers” and the profound disconnect many people feel when they enter the classroom — only to find that their teachers are living in a parallel universe that seems to...

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