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A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation

[Social] A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation By Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes Posted June 19, 2018 Outspoken opponents of abolishing the prison industrial complex typically portray abolitionists as politically...

Internal Emails Show FDA is Withholding the Fact that Foods in Your Pantry are Laced with Toxic Weedkiller

[Community] Internal Emails Show FDA is Withholding the Fact that Foods in Your Pantry are Laced with Toxic Weedkiller by Alex Pietrowski Posted June 15, 2018 Glyphosate is Monsanto’s flagship herbicide, appearing in hundreds of agricultural and gardening products,...

Fed Up With Big Banks That Fund Climate Crisis and Oppression, Community Coalition Demands Public Bank for New York

[Economic] Fed Up With Big Banks That Fund Climate Crisis and Oppression, Community Coalition Demands Public Bank for NYC by Julia Conley Posted June 12, 2018 Chanting, "Wells, Chase, B of A, public bank's a better way!" social justice groups rallied at the New York...

How To Liberate America from Wall Street Rule

[Economic] How To Liberate America from Wall Street Rule A Report from the New Economy Working Group Posted June 10, 2018 In 2008, Wall Street plunged the U.S. economy into the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Wall Street received a generous public bailout and...

Stopping Pipelines Means Challenging Systems That Threaten Our Existence

[Community] Stopping Pipelines Means Challenging Systems That Threaten Our Existence By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Posted June 8, 2018 Although not as well-known as the struggle at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, there are bold and active...

Seed and the Commons

[Community] Seed and the Commons by Helene Schulze Posted June 7, 2018 Global seed reserves are under serious threat. The recent ‘Baysanto’ merger is just another indication of the systematic consolidation of the seed market in the hands of a few select multi-national...

Harvest of Greed – The Merger of Bayer and Monsanto

[Spiritual] Harvest of Greed – The Merger of Bayer and Monsanto By Dr. Joseph Mercola Posted July 5, 2018 The Bayer-Monsanto entity is now the largest seed and pesticide company in the world, controlling more than 25 percent of the global seed and pesticide supply....

The Coming Collapse

[Social] The Coming Collapse by Chris Hedges Posted June 5, 2018 As a foreign correspondent I covered collapsed societies, including the former Yugoslavia. It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political...

California Senate votes to restore net neutrality

[Media] California Senate votes to restore net neutrality By Makena Kelly Posted June 4, 2018 The California Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December....

Money creation and inequality – an underexposed topic for monetary reformers

[Economic] Money creation and inequality – an underexposed topic for monetary reformers by Lino Zeddies Posted June 4, 2018 It is beyond doubt that the current money system has a huge impact on the distribution of power and wealth and heavily contributing to...

Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank for California’s Money?

[Economic] Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank for California’s Money? by Ellen Brown Posted June 3, 2018 California needs over $700 billion in infrastructure during the next decade. Where will this money come from? The $1.5 trillion infrastructure initiative...

Don’t Settle for “Fake Belonging” — In Society or Politics

[Community] Don’t Settle for “Fake Belonging” — In Society or Politics by Debilyn Molineaux Posted June 2, 2018 We human beings have an intense — an inherent — need to belong to a group. In our “cave days,” it was important for the survival of our species to be...

Seizing the Public Banking Moment

[Community] Seizing the Public Banking Moment by Matt Stannard Posted June 1, 2018 The free market has failed as a governing paradigm of material life. Whatever the case for local markets in their specific context, large-scale competition and hierarchy are...

See Which Produce Has the Most Pesticides in EWG’s 2018 Dirty Dozen List

[Community] See Which Produce Has the Most Pesticides in EWG’s 2018 Dirty Dozen List by Anna Hunt Posted May 27, 2018 Almost everything we eat in the conventional diet is subject to manifold doses of chemicals. Agricultural producers often spray vegetables and fruits...

Three Key Reforms for Facial Recognition and Body Cameras

[Justice] Three Key Reforms for Facial Recognition and Body Cameras by Project on Government Oversight Posted May 23, 2018 In recent years, we at The Constitution Project have warned that adding facial recognition scanning to police body cameras poses serious risks...

Overcoming the Myth of Authority

[Spiritual] Overcoming the Myth of Authority by Gary Z McGee Posted May 22, 2018 The problem with belief in authority is that it leads to the idea that we need to give a group of people permission to control us. And, as Lord Byron taught us, power given to an...

Appalachian Forest Blockades Disrupt Mountain Valley Pipeline

[Community] Appalachian Forest Blockades Disrupt Mountain Valley Pipeline by Chris Schiano and Sammy DiDonato Posted May 20, 2018 On the border between Virginia and West Virginia, a fight has begun regarding the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a joint venture of...

It’s Now or Never – The Fight for Freedom

[Spiritual] It’s Now or Never – The Fight for Freedom By Tim Bryant Posted May 16, 2018 There is a massive global awakening happening before our very eyes. This isn’t a centralized movement or centralized event, but instead is a global consciousness shift of...

Surveillance Self-Defense

[Media] Surveillance Self-Defense by Electronic Frontier Foundation Posted May 15, 2018 If you’ve ever worried about protecting the privacy of your digital data or your conversations with others, we’re here to help. Surveillance Self-Defense is a digital security...

The Dangers of Big City Subsidies

[Media] The Dangers of Big City Subsidies by Susan Crawford Posted May 14, 2018 America, alone among developed nations, never thought of basic telecommunications services as a public service, to be built and controlled by the government. Instead, we have traditionally...

The next huge GMO crime is here: It’s “genome-editing” of food crops.

[Social] The next huge GMO crime is here: It’s “genome-editing” of food crops. by Jon Rappoport Posted May 13, 2018 We’re on the cusp of a new level of GMO crime-business, and the man in charge of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Sonny Perdue, is cheerleading...

The road to Alzheimer’s disease is lined with processed foods

[Community] The road to Alzheimer’s disease is lined with processed foods by Dr. Lisa Mosconi Posted May 12, 2018 Collectively,the ways we address a disease has always been shaped by what we understand it to be. So it’s important to realize that Alzheimer’s doesn’t...

The Science of a Vanishing Planet

[Community] The Science of a Vanishing Planet by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Posted May 8, 2018 In one of many definitions, the 1998 Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle says: “When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment,...

American Samoa finally gets a public bank. And U.S. states are watching

[Economics] American Samoa finally gets a public bank. And U.S. states are watching By Rob Blackwell Posted May 8, 2018 American Samoa is finally getting its own full-service bank — and successfully creating only the second public bank in the United States. The...

Perjury, Lying Deeply Ingrained into American Police Culture

[Justice] Perjury, Lying Deeply Ingrained into American Police Culture by Kali Holloway Posted May 8, 2018 Police officers lie under oath in court so often that they’ve even given the practice a nickname. “Behind closed doors, we call it testilying,” New York City...

If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence

[Social] If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence By John W. Whitehead Posted May 6, 2018 Why is no one taking aim at the U.S. government as the greatest purveyor of violence in American society and around the world? The systemic violence...

Open Source is Tech’s Explosive Organic Movement

[Community] Open Source is Tech’s Explosive Organic Movement By Bill Ottman & Schuyler Brown Posted May 4, 2018 There was once was a day when software was just software. The source code (ingredients) of various programs was always shared with the global development...

How Cooperation Richmond is Empowering Marginalized Communities to Build an Equitable Economy

[Community] How Cooperation Richmond is Empowering Marginalized Communities to Build an Equitable Economy By Robert Raymond Posted May 3, 2018 Lying a few miles south of Marin County and just across the bay from San Francisco, the city of Richmond, California, is...

What Standing Rock Gave the World

[Community] What Standing Rock Gave the World by Jenni Monet Posted April 30, 2018 Americans saw the Indigenous struggle—the violence, stolen resources, colluding corporations and governments—that goes hand in hand with protecting the Earth. At the height of the...

How This CSA Started By A Chemistry Teacher May Be The Future Of Local Agriculture

[Community] How This CSA Started By A Chemistry Teacher May Be The Future Of Local Agriculture By Aaron Fernando Posted April 24, 2018 Quietly nestled on the side of a hill in the rural town of Caroline, New York, just a short drive from Ithaca, Nook and Cranny Farm...

Central Vermont: “YES!” On Communications Union District

[Community] Central Vermont: "YES!" On Communications Union District by Lisa Gonzalez Posted April 20, 2018 We recently learned that a group of communities in central Vermont had decided to ask voters if they should form a communications union district to develop a...

Inhuman: What The Establishment’s Bot Hysteria Reveals About Their View Of The Masses

[Social] Inhuman: What The Establishment’s Bot Hysteria Reveals About Their View Of The Masses by Elizabeth Vos Posted April 19, 2018 The only apparatus that could hope to match the soullessness of the psychopaths that run our planet is manifested in the rise of...

Turn Prisons Into Colleges

[Justice] Turn Prisons Into Colleges By Elizabeth Hinton Posted April 16, 2018 Imagine if prisons looked like the grounds of universities. Instead of languishing in cells, incarcerated people sat in classrooms and learned about climate science or poetry — just like...

How a small town reclaimed its grid and sparked a community revolution

[Community] How a small town reclaimed its grid and sparked a community revolution by Aditya Chakrabortty Posted April 14, 2018 In the east German city of Potsdam, the privatisation of water pushed charges up by a third within two years – so it was cancelled. City...

What if People Owned the Banks, Instead of Wall Street?

[Community] What if People Owned the Banks, Instead of Wall Street? by Jimmy Tobias Posted April 11, 2018 When Craig Brandt marched into the City Council chambers in Oakland, California, in the summer of 2015, he was furious about fraud. The long-time local attorney...

The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet

[Community] The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet by Ellen Brown Posted April 9, 2018 Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity and establishing proprietary control with GMO seeds distributed by only a few transnational...

Transforming the way municipalities collect and spend their money

[Community] Transforming the way municipalities collect and spend their money by Oscar Perry Abello Posted April 5, 2018 It’s no surprise that Malia Cohen worries about what local public dollars are doing. As a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the...

Money Creation — What The World Thinks

[Community] Money Creation --- What The World Thinks by Stan Jourdan Posted April 4, 2018 A recent survey covering 20 countries concludes that only 20% of the population is aware that money creation is being largely managed by the private banking sector and 13% agrees...

Freeholders File Lawsuit to Battle Opioid Epidemic Naming Manufacturers of Highly-Addictive Drugs

[Justice] Freeholders File Lawsuit to Battle Opioid Epidemic Naming Manufacturers of Highly-Addictive Drugs by Camden County Freeholders Posted March 28, 2018 In order to take Camden County’s ongoing fight against opioid addiction to the next level, the Freehold Board...

Benefits of a Public Bank for Cities and Municipalities

[Economic] Benefits of a Public Bank for Cities and Municipalities by Mike Krauss, Steve Snyder and Nancy Goldner Posted March 25, 2018 The American people in cities and communities throughout our nation need a strong local banking industry, free of the destructive...