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

September 27, 2016 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...

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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...

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How You Are Already Seeding Transformation

April 24, 2016 by Joe Brewer 6 Comments

The world is changing quickly and there is great need for people everywhere to visualize how it is happening. If we can see our place in the process, we can consciously and intentionally help it happen faster.

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The Mental Disease of Late-Stage Capitalism

by Joe Brewer 9 Comments

The mental disease of late-stage capitalism is shame, the devastating feeling that we failed ourselves in the Land of Opportunity.

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The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction

April 22, 2016 by Joe Brewer No Comments

Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by design by a global elite.

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The Gatecrashers Manifesto

August 14, 2015 by Alnoor 3 Comments

This is a manifesto for those who believe that change is inevitable and are ready to make it happen.

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Standing at the gates: Our generation has to convert ideas of change into action

by Alnoor 10 Comments

The task of our generation is one of reconstruction. If we want to truly be gate crashers, we must move beyond the frustration of the ineptitude and psychopathy of the elites, corrupt politicians and robber barons that are lionized in our media and educational institutions. We must start by taking...

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Two aspects Of socio-economic development that we forget too easily

July 4, 2015 by Thomas Pichon No Comments

The world is facing several crises: economic, environmental and social. We tend to look at these issues individually and believe we can find answers to each problem independently.

One Party Planet - the system ruled by neoliberalism

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Pope Francis’ encyclical vs the UN’s SDGs: Who Will Save the World First?

June 25, 2015 by The Rules 1 Comment

Unlike the encyclical, the SDGs are not fresh, or paradigm shifting. They don’t offer anything that gets the blood flowing. They can’t be sold as exciting because they simply aren’t.

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