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City Kicked Out Their Cops and Politicians 7 Years Ago and Now They Have the Lowest Crime Rates in Mexico
[Community] City Kicked Out Their Cops and Politicians 7 Years Ago and Now They Have the Lowest Crime Rates in Mexico by Derrick Broze Posted October 15, 2018 A town in Mexico recently celebrated seven years since kicking out the corrupt narco government and reverting...
Why Public Banks Are Suddenly Popular
[Community] Why Public Banks Are Suddenly Popular By Sarah Jones Posted October 11, 2018 Later this year, on the midterm ballot, voters in Los Angeles, California, will be asked an uncommon question: Should the city be to allowed to create a public bank? L.A.’s...
Idemia: The Corporation Building Spy Grid in China, National ID in India Also Creates Drivers Licenses in the U.S.
[Community] Idemia: The Corporation Building Spy Grid in China, National ID in India Also Creates Drivers Licenses in the U.S. By Daniel Taylor Posted September 29, 2018 Company that helps manufacture U.S. citizens drivers licenses brags of “building and managing...
Bad Chicago Cops Spread Their Misconduct Like a Disease
[Justice] Bad Chicago Cops Spread Their Misconduct Like a Disease by Rob Arthur Posted September 25, 2018 Because Chicago's police complaints can list multiple officers at once, it’s possible to build a giant social network of police interactions. From 1972 to 1991, a...
A New Broadband Network Is Pitching Surveillance Enhancements to Cops Across the Country
[Justice] A New Broadband Network Is Pitching Surveillance Enhancements to Cops Across the Country by Simon Davis-Cohen Posted September 19, 2018 The latest technologies promise cops the ability to whip out a smartphone, take a snapshot of a passerby, and instantly...
American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths
[Social] American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths by Lee Camp Posted September 13, 2018 Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of...
Vigilantes with a Badge: Warrior Cops Endanger Our Lives and Freedoms
[Justice] Vigilantes with a Badge: Warrior Cops Endanger Our Lives and Freedoms By John W. Whitehead Posted September 5, 2018 I have known a lot of good cops, I have defended a lot of good cops, and I have been fortunate to call a number of good cops friends. So when...
The Nationwide Prison Strike: Why It’s Happening and What It Means for Ending Mass Incarceration
[Justice] The Nationwide Prison Strike: Why It’s Happening and What It Means for Ending Mass By Janos Marton Posted September 4, 2018 Earlier this spring, violence broke out in the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina, resulting in seven deaths and many...
Eating Modern Wheat Fuels Growth of Harmful Gut Bacteria, Study Suggests
[Community] Eating Modern Wheat Fuels Growth of Harmful Gut Bacteria, Study Suggests by Sayer Ji Posted September 4, 2018 Research indicates that the consumption of wheat contributes to the growth of pathogenic bacteria in our gut, adding to growing concern that wheat...
Big Pharma and the Rise of Gangster Capitalism
[Justice] Big Pharma and the Rise of Gangster Capitalism by Charles Hugh Smith Posted August 31, 2018 $8 per vial in competing developed-world nations and $38,892 in the U.S. That says it all. Thanks to decades of gangster films, we all know how gangster capitalism...
The List of Products and Foods that Have Tested Positive for Monsanto’s Carcinogenic Glyphosate
[Community] The List of Products and Foods that Have Tested Positive for Monsanto’s Carcinogenic Glyphosate by Alex Pietrowski Posted August 20, 2018 Monsanto is receiving considerable global backlash after the agrochemical and seed giant was found guilty of malice...
Our New, Happy Life? The Ideology of Development
[Spiritual] Our New, Happy Life? The Ideology of Development by Charles Eisenstein Posted August 19, 2018 In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the...
Kidnappers: The Tyranny of Child Protective Services Across the Nation
[Justice] Kidnappers: The Tyranny of Child Protective Services Across the Nation By Joe Jarvis Posted August 18, 2018 Sovereignman reports about a particularly tyrannical family court Judge, Lyris Younge of Pennsylvania. First, she removed a baby from her parents in...
Money and the Unflappable Economist
[Social] Money and the Unflappable Economist By Philip E. Mirowski Posted August 16, 2018 At the beginning of May 2018, there was a brief furor over donations from Koch family-affiliated philanthropies to fund the Mercatus Institute and the newly-named Antonin Scalia...
How To Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds
[Community] How To Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz Posted August 14, 2018 Heirlooms are irresistible, not just because they’re delicious, but because growing them defies capitalism. Most tomatoes in a supermarket are hybrids, bred for uniform...
A Mexican Town Overthrew Their Local Government And Things Are Going Great
[Social] A Mexican Town Overthrew Their Local Government And Things Are Going Great by Mac Slavo Posted August 13, 2018 The town of Cherán was once plagued by people claiming the right to rule over them and now they live peaceful lives free of violence. After the town...
Our New, Happy Life? The Ideology of Development
[Spiritual] Our New, Happy Life? The Ideology of Development By Charles Eisenstein Posted August 7, 2018 In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the...
Calling all researchers: Bounty offered for Money-In-Politics anomaly discoveries.
[Politics] Calling all researchers: Bounty offered for Money-In-Politics anomaly discoveries. by Brendan Quinn Posted August 3, 2018 We track a lot of data here at OpenSecrets. We look at campaign finance, lobbying spending, personal finances and a whole lot more....
Nomi Prins: The central banking heist has put the world at risk
[Economic] Nomi Prins: The central banking heist has put the world at risk by Liam Halligan Posted July 28, 2018 “The 2008 financial crisis was the consequence of a loosely regulated banking system in which power was concentrated in the hands of too limited a cast of...
The U.S. and Canada Are Preparing for a New Standing Rock Over the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline
[Political] The U.S. and Canada Are Preparing for a New Standing Rock Over the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline by Alleen Brown and Will Parrish Posted July 26, 2018 Resistance to the pipeline is already escalating: On July 3, seven pipeline opponents rappelled from...
With “Mountainous” Evidence On Plaintiffs’ Side, Hundreds Of Cancer Cases Against Monsanto Get Green Light
[Justice] With “Mountainous” Evidence On Plaintiffs’ Side, Hundreds Of Cancer Cases Against Monsanto Get Green Light By Jessica Corbett Posted July 24, 2018 “We’re going to see for the first time evidence that nobody has seen before, evidence that has been in...
Why We Should Be Alarmed That Israeli Forces And U.S. Police Are Training Together
[Community] Why We Should Be Alarmed That Israeli Forces And U.S. Police Are Training Together by Domenica Ghanem Posted July 24, 2018 The Israeli forces mowing down unarmed Palestinian protesters also train U.S. police forces that brutalize communities of color. U.S....
David Hogg Just Got “SWATTED”. Here’s Why That’s So Messed Up.
[Social] David Hogg Just Got “SWATTED”. Here’s Why That’s So Messed Up. By Joe Jarvis Posted July 23, 2018 The number of raids conducted by SWAT-like police units has grown accordingly. In the 1970s, there were just a few hundred a year; by the early 1980s, there were...
Seven Ways to Help High Schoolers Find Purpose
[Spiritual] Seven Ways to Help High Schoolers Find Purpose by Patrick Cook-Deegan Posted July 20, 2018 Over the past decade, I have had the chance to ask thousands of teenagers what they think about school. I’ve found that the vast majority of them generally feel one...
Survival of the Richest
[Spiritual] Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff Posted July 17, 2018 Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever...
The Dire Consequences of Giving Private Companies Responsibility for Ailing Public Water Systems
[Community] The Dire Consequences of Giving Private Companies Responsibility for Ailing Public Water Systems by Sharon Lerner and Leana Hosea Posted July 14, 2018 The lead crises in Flint and Pittsburgh have many unfortunate parallels. Residents of both cities...
How Systems Collapse
[Social] How Systems Collapse by Charles Hugh Smith Posted July 13, 2018 This is how systems collapse: faith in the visible surface of abundance reigns supreme, and the fragility of the buffers goes unnoticed. I often discuss systems and systemic collapse. The key...
Mainstream Media vs. the Age of Information
[Media] Mainstream Media vs. the Age of Information by Ethan Indigo Smith Posted July 12, 2018 The world is on the precipice of change. The information age has the power to challenge the structures of the status quo. It even has the potential to eliminate the...
At Power Plant Approval Meeting, Paid Actors Spoke While Residents Were Locked Out
[Community] At Power Plant Approval Meeting, Paid Actors Spoke While Residents Were Locked Out By Emilie Karrick Surrusco Posted July 11, 2018 We've asked the Louisiana attorney general to investigate a New Orleans City Council meeting where actors were paid to speak...
Chase Says It’s Fighting Climate Change. So Why Is It Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry?
[Economics] Chase Says It’s Fighting Climate Change. So Why Is It Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry? By Kate Aronoff Posted July 11, 2018 JPMorgan Chase (“Chase”) talks a big game on climate change. The Wall Street bank has committed to becoming entirely reliant on...
Why Public Banking is the End Goal of the Divestment Movement
[Community] Why Public Banking is the End Goal of the Divestment Movement by Phoenix Goodman Posted July 10, 2018 Something big is starting to happen in the world of activism. Grassroots campaigns are beginning to coalesce into coherent, focused missions with...
The Fiber Future is Cooperative: Policy Brief On Rural Cooperative Fiber Deployment
[Community] The Fiber Future is Cooperative: Policy Brief On Rural Cooperative Fiber Deployment by Hannah Trostle Posted July 7, 2018 Rural communities across the United States are already building the Internet infrastructure of the future. Using a 20th century model,...
We’re All Trespassers Now in the Face of the Government’s Land Grabs
[Justice] We’re All Trespassers Now in the Face of the Government’s Land Grabs By John W. Whitehead Posted June 30, 2018 Here’s what one resident of Roanoke, Va., wrote to me about the manner in which the Mountain Valley Pipeline is being inflicted on his community:...
‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Actors Join Shakespeare’s Rallying Cry to Stand With Refugees
[Social] 'Harry Potter' and 'Game of Thrones' Actors Join Shakespeare's Rallying Cry to Stand With Refugees By Imogen Calderwood Posted June 27, 2018 This 400-year-old speech is still scarily relevant. Actors from “Harry Potter”, “Game of Thrones”, and “Sex in the...
A Cashless Society Looms: Cui Bono?
[Economic] A Cashless Society Looms: Cui Bono? by Virginia Fidler Posted June 27, 2018 The government, of course, is extremely interested in your spending habits. The taxing authorities use an electronic money trail to monitor your spending and ensure against tax...
Why much of genetic engineering remains a mystery
[Social] Why much of genetic engineering remains a mystery by Peter Franklin Posted June 27, 2018 Imagine a company that employs 6,000 people. It’s your job to find out what they all do. The catch is that you can’t ask them directly, because you don’t speak their...
Weapons of Mass Corruption
[Social] Weapons of Mass Corruption by David Silverstein Posted June 25, 2018 What if I told you that you and/or your company, depending on where you get your health insurance, are spending more than $1,500 a year just to have your health insurance claims processed?...
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...
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