[Community] Genetically Modified Bread Given Green Light by Vatican By Julian Rose Posted July 15, 2017 In what will surely to be considered a highly controversial statement, Vatican cardinal Robert Sarah, has stated that Catholic priests can use genetically modified...

[Community] This beer kills pipelines By Rob Hopkins Posted July 5, 2017 The TransCanada pipeline (called Energy East) is intended to transport oil from the tar sands in Alberta to St. John in New Brunswick, a route of 6,400km across Canada. Once built, 1.1 million...

[Community] 3 Things to Remember on Independence Day by Ryan McMaken Posted July 4, 2017 It’s difficult to say what most Americans commemorate or celebrate on Independence Day nowadays. Many appear to focus on some vague notion of “America.” Others...

[Community] We’ve Lost All Sense of the Common Good By Charles Hugh Smith Posted July 1, 2017 The only way to rebuild a Common Good is to radically decentralize political, financial and media concentrations of ownership and power. The theory of American civics...

[Community] Monsanto and Big Ag Colonizing Africa, Criminalizing Traditional Seed Exchanges by Alex Pietrowski Posted June 28, 2017 Of the many concerns surrounding the dominance of agrichemicals companies and GMO foods, the most frightening dimension is that...

[Community] Private Toll Operators Salivate Over Donald Trump’s Infrastructure Plan by Lee Fang Posted June 14, 2017 Investors are hoping to seize upon the $1 trillion infrastructure plan proposed by President Donald Trump to transform the nation’s highways, bridges,...

[Community] Leaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers Around the World by Sam Biddle Posted June 3, 2017 In mid-April, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA to infect and control Windows computers was leaked by an entity known only...

[Community] Why Is Sleep Important to Growing Children? by Karen Reed Posted June 2, 2017 Every human being needs some type of sleep. In fact, every creature on the Earth needs some type of sleep. We all function on different levels. When it comes to children, it...

[Community] This Major City’s Drinking Water Was Fine. Then Came the Private Water Company. by Julia Lurie Posted May 29, 2017 “They will come in, rape your water company, and leave with money bags.” This summer, 81,000 homes in Pittsburgh received a...

[Community] Nine Key Political Propositions for Building the Commons by Martin O’Shaughnessy Posted May 26, 2017 Although the politics of the common builds on the tradition of 19th century socialist associationism and 20th century workers’ councils, it can no longer...

[Community] 8 Ways Technology Is Improving Your Health by Karen Reed Posted May 25, 2017 We hear all the time about how technology is bad for us. Since the introduction of computers, we spend more time sitting at a desk than moving around at work. We have created this...

[Community] The NSA’s leaked Windows hack caused more damage than just WannaCry by Russell Brandom Posted May 19, 2017 mWhen the ShadowBrokers first published the code for EternalBlue — an NSA exploit targeting Windows’ file-sharing protocol — researchers knew it was...

[Community] Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria by James Somers Posted May 1, 2017 You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a...

[Community] A Bank Even a Socialist Could Love By David Dayen Posted April 21, 2017 Wall Street banks have used shady financial instruments to extract billions from unsuspecting localities, helping devastate places like Jefferson County, Ala. Making the wrong bet with...

[Community] We Are the Parasite By James Hunter Posted April 20, 2017 The human race has become a parasite that is killing its host. The host is Gaia. This is the central political fact of our times. Two important political ramifications derive from the above fact....

[Community] What a State-Owned Bank Can Do for New Jersey by Ellen Brown Posted April 15, 2017 Consider the possibilities, for example, for funding infrastructure. Like most states today, New Jersey suffers from serious budget problems, limiting its ability to make...

[Community] Get to Know the BATS: Teachers Fighting Privatization By Marla Kilfoyle and Melissa Tomlinson Posted April 15, 2017 With the appointment of billionaire school privatization advocate Betsy DeVos to US Secretary of Education, the fight for education justice...

[Community] Real Freedom Through Food and Water Self-Sufficiency by Paul A. Phillips Posted April 6, 2017 In recent years a number of practical, innovative methodologies for cultivating and harvesting food and water have arisen. These small setups have allowed...

[Community] Small Acts of Scientific Civil Disobedience by Margaret Beaton Posted April 3, 2017 Big science publications put important peer-reviewed research behind expensive paywalls. But some scientists have found creative ways around them. Traditionally, scientists...

[Community]  Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone by Rob Dunn Posted April 1, 2017 No this is not an April Fools story. On a plate, a single banana seems whimsical—yellow and sweet, contained in its own easy-to-open peel. It is a charming breakfast...

[Community] In a Rust Belt Town Where Tuition Is Covered, Economy Begins to Revive by J. Gabriel Ware Posted March 29, 2017 After Kalamazoo, Michigan, offered college tuition for nearly all high school graduates, dropout rates declined and the city’s population began...

[Community] The Agroecological Alternative to Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter Posted March 22, 2017 The very foundation of the GMO agritech sector is based on a fraud. The sector and the wider transnational agribusiness cartel to which it belongs have also...

[Community] Fukushima: a Lurking Global Catastrophe? by Robert Hunziker Posted March 5, 2017 Year over year, ever since 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown grows worse and worse, an ugly testimonial to the inherent danger of generating electricity via nuclear...

[Community] Homeless Build Drug-Free Camp to Help Others Get Sober, Cops Promptly Tear it Down by Matt Agorist Posted March 3, 2017 Known as ‘The Promised Land,’ a group of homeless people in Oakland sought to improve their situation by creating a camp that would...

[Community] “Dark Forces” Are Coming for Your Organic Food by Tom Philpott Posted February 25, 2017 Back in December, the Freedom Caucus released a “recommended list of regulations to remove.” Among its 228 targets—ranging from eliminating...

[Community] Confronted by Activist Moms, Monsanto CEO Lies to Shareholders by Christina Sarich Posted February 19, 2017 Two mothers from Moms Across America, Anne Temple and Zen Honeycutt, recently attended Monsanto’s stock holder meeting to address some important...

[Community] Universal Basic Income Accelerates Innovation by Reducing Our Fear of Failure By Scott Santens Posted February 16, 2017 Our economy is a complex adaptive system. Much like how nature works, markets work. No one central planner is deciding what natural...

[Community]  A Public Bank for Oakland: An Idea Whose Time is Coming by JP Massar Posted January 15, 2017 Public banks are financial institutions owned by the people through their representative governments at city, county or state levels. Public banks differ from...

[Community] Monsanto GMO Seeds in Nigeria, Breaking the Agricultural Cycle, Complicity of UN World Food Program By Slavko Nissl Posted February 13, 2017 Nigeria’s Farmers Alliance of over 14 million farmers have called on all farmers especially in the Northeast to...

[Community] Don’t Ask, Just Plant — Taking Back Our Food Sovereignty with Guerrilla Gardening By Carolanne Wright Posted February 9, 2017 During both world wars, Victory Gardens were a staple throughout the United States, found everywhere from private residences to...

[Community] Defund DAPL Spreads Across Indian Country as Tribes Divest by Frances Madeson Posted February 3, 2017 Like the call and response in Lakota ceremonial prayer songs, tribes are answering the Standing Rock’s Sioux plea for all of Indian Country to move its...

[Community] The Cooperative Commonwealth: An Alternative To Corporate Capitalism and State Socialism by Frank Lindenfeld Posted January 22, 2017 The cooperative commonwealth is a desirable and feasible alternative to corporate capitalism and state socialism. The...

[Community] Solving the Student-Debt Crisis By Malcolm Harris Posted January 9, 2017 The American student-debt system is so big and complex that there’s almost no aspect of it that the experts can agree on. Some commentators see a bubble overdue to burst: a trillion...

[Community]  Vote with your wallet: be part of the solution, not the problem By Dimitrios Tsivrikos Posted January 1, 2017 Making consumers align their beliefs with their purchasing decisions is essential if we are to preserve the health of our planet and protect...