Against ‘Sustainability’ - The truth is we “sustain” nature to preserve the resources needed for our own consumption.

Local Residents Force Monsanto to Tear Down GMO Seed Plant in Argentina - Monsanto have announced that they will dismantle their half-built multi-million dollar GMO seed plant in Malvinas, Argentina, following protests from loc...

Law and Disorder August 8, 2016 - Civil Disobedience Ordinance and Home Rule In Grant Township, PA In what is perhaps the nation’s first law that legalizes direct action, Grant Township in ...

GGG#216: Stranger Things - Episode 216 << Coming August 13th Guests Andrew Liptak, Carli Velocci, and Peter Rubin join us to discuss the Netflix original series Stranger Things. Plea...

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My Kansas City World Science Fiction Convention schedule - I’m flying into Kansas City for part of Midamericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, and while there, I’ll be on panels, give a reading, and ...

Humanitarian Emergency in Northeast Nigeria - [image: People are queuing for screening. The displaced population in Bama camp is estimated between 10 000 to 12 000 persons.]Jean-Hervﾃｩ Bradol of Mﾃｩdecin...

Wishful thinking - Simone de Beauvoir, *Philosophical Writings*, edited by Margaret A. Simons with Marybeth Timmerman and Mary Beth Mader, University of Illinois Press, Urb...

Just Another Night in the Police State - We’d been talking for hours outside a corner store, on a hot summer evening in Detroit, about organizing locally against prisons and police. We got in rand...

What Happens if Trump Drops Out? - It’s been summer, and I’ve been busy with other work, so I haven’t posted in a while. This started as a Facebook thing, but I figured I’d put it up here to...

Mark Crispin Miller - Peter and Mickey spend the hour in discussion with Mark Crispin Miller, NYU professor, author, and media critic. Their conversation included both critiqu...

Tell GMCA: No New Prisons In Manchester! Demonstration on 10/08/2016 - Our friends at Manchester No Prisons have organised a demonstration on August 10th to protest Manchester’s new prison build. Join them to demand that Great...

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Black flags and debt resistance in America’s oldest colony - In the face of a neolcolonial debt regime imposed by the United States, Puerto Rico’s streets are alive with the spirit of resistance. Read more

Yfaat Weiss – Political Sovereignty and Cultural Property: The Mount Scopus Enclave in Jerusalem - Categories: - Academic Service - Archive Tags: IsraelJudaismLeo Baeck InstituteWeiss (Yfaat) Event Date: 11 February 2015 German Historical Instit...

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE..... - *Missing her already...* Reposted from Cup of Jo: Michelle Obama brought down the house with her speech last night at the Democratic National Convention...

Getting granular with NPR’s culture of timidity - NPR would not call it plagiarism when Melania Trump’s speech to the Republican convention took passages from Michelle Obama. But there was a revealing mome...

Black Hole - *Black Hole* documents the circumstances surrounding the 965-day campaign against the Maules Creek black coal mine located in the Gunnedah Basin, Australia...

Privacy for the Next Billion Users - Posted by Richard Salgado, Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security We have updated our Transparency Report on government requests for user...

"Of course tumblr is mad at you." - “Of course tumblr is mad at you.” - *My friend Cat throws out what is, upon reflection, a pretty good slogan for the site*

Gender Focus winds up after seven years of feminist blogging - It is with mixed feeling that I am winding up Gender Focus after seven years. The website will remain live, but we will not be accepting new content. Seven...

(12:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Emergency Management Deputy Director Rotanz Sees Significant Damage inside World Trade Center Building 7 - Richard Rotanz, the deputy director of New York's Office of Emergency Management, assesses the state of World Trade Center Building 7 and sees significant ...

Disaster Citizenship Survivors, Solidarity, and Power - This was held on March 8th, 2016. Disaster Citizenship Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the North American Progressive Era by Jacob Remes.

Bolivia’s new business model: Custom laws for foreign investors - At last November’s Investing in the New Bolivia event, the Evo Morales government rolled out the red carpet for foreign corporations, with a little help fr...

Which Side Are You On? - Every second Facebook post I see today is seemingly about Philando Castile, and rightly so. It hits me all the more that he was shot down in my homeland, t...

July 2016 (Volume 68, Number 3) - buy this issue Commenting in the January 1973 issue of *Monthly Review* on the declining condition of the U.S. economy, Paul Sweezy brought back the ques...

Show 307 - Revenge of the Gangrenous Finger - This show has a "chickens coming home to roost" feel to it, but maybe in a positive way. It was supposed to be about the recent British vote to leave the E...

True Colours: Why Leave deserves to lose - The Leave campaign could have been different. It might have been the honourable debate that Giles Fraser wishes it was, and that Vote Leave initially pro...

Tom Voss - Almost Sunrise is the first feature documentary film to introduce the term “moral injury” into the lexicon of war. It profiles two Iraqi war veterans, Tom ...

Food Anthropology, A Tribute to Sidney W. Mintz - What are the most important insights from Food Anthropology that need to be shared? What are the essential articles for teaching a Food Anthropology cour...

From Oblivion to Political Responsibility: An Anarchist Sister Reviews DEAR SISTER: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence - Sara Rahnoma-Galindo from the Institute for Anarchist Studies has written an amazing review of Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence by L...

Re:sound #221 The Writing Out of Trouble Show - This hour we're featuring two stories of love through loss... plus an interview with the producers who've written their way through these troubled moments....

Trying to make a meaningful connection: Keith Hart’s anthropology - Transcription of an interview with Federico Neiburg and Fernando Rabossi held at the National Museum (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), on May 23rd...

Mind-Body Balance in the Heart of Spring: Spring Depression, Allergies + Water Retention - While some individuals remain relatively balanced year round, many of us are more sensitive to change. This time in-between Seasons can make you feel very ...

Guiding a First Generation to College - Students who are new to America or lack college-educated parents often don’t know their options.

Wikipedia Year of Science: An Open Opportunity for Participation - The Wiki Education Foundation (Wiki Ed) has announced the 2016 Wikipedia Year of Science, an initiative to improve Wikipedia’s potential for communicating ...

End of an Era… And a New Beginning - Friday March 19, 2016 was the final day of this program, Uprising with Sonali. After debuting in August 2003, Uprising became the longest-running drive-tim...

Working Class History 101 - Working-class History 101: Review of Plutocracy Part 1 by Socialist Worker

Affect/Emotion - This is a general statement, nothing really new. I was writing it in another context, realized I didn’t need it, decided to post it here. Affect theorists ...

a dada moment - From Adbusters #123: Manifesto for World Revolution Pt. VI February 5th, 1916: During the rational madness of the Great War, a group of artists and exil...

What’s Warming the Cold-Blooded Iguana? - [image: Iguanas 2]Now that dinosaurs no longer roam the Earth, scientists use modern animals to understand how their ancient ancestors reproduced, walked, ...

Best of 2015: PALINDROMES - Palindromes are words and phrases that look the same on the page and in a mirror. They are one of the easiest and most rewarding ways to have fun with our ...

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American Experience | The Pilgrims - Explore the events that propelled a group of men and women across the Atlantic in 1620.

Austin City Limits | Jason Isbell "Something More Than Free" | 2015 Americana Mus - Jason Isbell performs at the 2015 Americana Music Festival.

Terror in France and ISIS' Revolution: Anthropologists try to see the whole picture - *(draft, post in progress) *More surveillance, more bombs, more border controls, less democracy, less freedom: Europe is reacting hysterically after the ...

In Fight Against ISIS, a Lose-Lose Scenario Poses Challenge for West - Western powers are in a bind, analysts say, as ISIS is likely to continue pursuing attacks abroad in retaliation to the loss of territory in Iraq and Syria.

Student Loans: Think Before You Borrow - On average, a college graduate earns just over $47,000 per year. On the other hand, individuals who possess only a high… Continue Reading The post Studen...

Industrial Worker, Fall 2015: 'In November We Remember' - *In this issue:* - Legal victory over police repression of union activity & free speech in Boston - Boycotts, pickets in support of Familias Un...

last night i dreamed - Last night i dreamed i was dying my eyes were closed i was flyin woke this morning to a world in tatters seems everyday my heart is shattered 2 friends have ...

MH17: A Year Without the Truth -

A Beautiful Mind: Interview with Chor Boogie - Sprawled out like Jesus on the neatly manicured lawn of someone’s suburban dream home he lay, pushed from a moving car, abandoned and left for dead. He’d...

NATO to hold biggest military drills in decade, Russia welcome to observe - NATO will be conducting its biggest military exercises in over 10 years starting in October, with a specific focus on battling Islamic State, allied comman...

AAA blog: White + Word Gap = Wrong! - The following post was written by AAA members Susan D. Blum, Netta Avineri, and Eric J. Johnson in response to a recent article in the Washington Post. Rea...

Scattered thoughts and strange vibrations regarding Dylann Roof, White Supremacy and the Hypocrisy of so-called Homeland Security and American Counterterrorism - I feel like I've entered another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Gone on a bizarre journey into a wondrous land of imagina...

Homonormativity, Homonationalism, and the other ‘Other’: the dangers of a liberal discourse in the fight for (gay marriage) ‘equality’ - by Christiaan Rapcewicz. Christiaan is a MA candidate in Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies at York University. He is interested in exploring the various w...

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Energy-efficient Espresso Makers - If this involves espresso makers, the amount of energy a single employs might surprise you. While EnergyStar and Customer Reviews do not show the power u...

This Week’s Best TV: Conan O’Brien Goes Boyfriend Hunting - [image: This Week’s Best TV: Conan O’Brien Goes Boyfriend Hunting] The *Parks and Recreation* finale, the end of awards season, and Conan O'Brien's virgin ...

Action on climate change is cheaper than inaction - Many are afraid that tackling climate change is going to be too costly. But increasingly, studies are showing action will not just be cheaper than inacti...

Robert Reich | The Worst Trade Deal You Never Heard Of - [image: Economist Robert Reich explains the significance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. (photo: YouTube)] Economist Robert Reich explains t...

Black and Green Review - Black and Green Review is a new anarcho-primitivist (AP) magazine with a single goal: to deepen the AP and Green Anarchist (GA) critiques through open di...

Fifty Shades of Grey: Chapter 25. - Hi! I still exist! I got a new job as a nurse and I was very busy for a while. I'm still busy, but I have some actual free time now. And I spent that fr...

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Lila Downs on Borders and La Bestia - Author: Ed Morales Date: Monday, October 13, 2014 Teaser: A guerrera de la luz, an ethereal range of many octaves seeking to return wisdom to the ea...

Tune Me What: Second Season Sunset Show - Author(s): Brett Lock and Leon Lazarus Deck: A second season comes to a close. We can hardly believe that we have two seasons of Tune Me What? under our...

Oil Train Opponents Blockade Tracks at Port Westward, OR - Subhead: Activists in Columbia County blockaded the tracks that lead to Port Westward to protest against oil trains and the climate chaos they create. Im...

Science Undermined at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - An unprecedented level of political interference threatens the integrity of government science. Political interference in science threatens our nation's pr...

Marxism and Elections - Marxism and Elections Kyle Brown Socialism 2014 Socialism & Marxism What attitude do Marxists take to elections and representative government? In the ...

Making Social Science Relevant Again: Engaging Students Through Wicked Problems - Over the past decade, among the most frequently voiced criticisms of higher education is that universities are not adequately preparing students to be succ...

When Lockheed Gives You Lemons - On paper, the F-35 is an impressive plane. The fifth-generation, multirole, single-seat, single-engine Joint Strike Fighter is built primarily by Lockhe...

VIP porta-potty: Capitalist contradictions in health and fitness - Some aspects of the contradictions of capitalism (i.e: the cost of running shoes) end up becoming part of the background noise of everyday life.

The Bergdahl Exchange, a Soft Economy, and Dowd Gets Baked - The Bergdahl exchange raises questions about the Taliban, looking at the real state of the US economy, and Maureen Dowd gets really high in Colorado. Li...

Adam Thierer on Permissionless Innovation - Adam Thierer, senior research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, discusses his latest book Permis...

The Trouble is the Banks Letters in Theater, April 17-20 - Four Peformances of Marathon Dancing: Letters to Wall Street in the Era of Wonderful Nonsense

SF Bay Area: This Week in Palestine, February 21st, 2014 - Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 15th to the 21st, 2014.

Only four of 20 subpoenaed in Christie bridge investigation comply by deadline - Only four Port Authority officials met this week's deadline to turn over all documents subpoenaed in the New Jersey Legislature's investigation into the Ge...

RAISING THE FLOOR - Corporate tax reform and minimum wage raises go together Hundreds gathered in Seattle’s Labor Temple. The occasion: a rally to kick off the launch of 15Now...

ONE'S PRIVATE LIFE - Intimate stories of British upper class sexual treachery and divorce 40 years ago - just like the Francois Hollande scandal in today's France. The only d...

THE RAG BLOG HAS MOVED!!! - We're now at TheRagBlog.com (And we're having a party!) The Rag Blog has a new website! We've moved to TheRagBlog.com and we're having a Launch Party this ...

Clarifying the Crisis - How should we assess the 2008 economic crash — and the political possibilities beyond it?

#781 Nelson Mandela: Free at last - Click here to show/hide the flash player. Edition #781 Play or download here! Ch. 1: Intro – Theme: A Fond Farewell – From a Basement On the Hill Ch. 2: Ac...

Apple blocks app developed by Chinese activists and RNW - *For almost two months, the FreeWeibo app offered readers an uncensored version of China’s most popular social media network, Sina Weibo. Thanks to a sma...

An Obsessive’s Documenting Of Israeli War Crimes In Lebanon Can Show Us How The West Lost Respect For International Law by Robert Fisk - One Norwegian officer left Lebanon with a typed report on torture taped to his chest

Fred Hampton, the Black Panther Party, and racial coalitions - November 9 talk at Wild Fig Bookstore By Janet Tucker On November 9, Jakobi Williams, a former faculty member in UK’s history department who is now an Asso...

The implications of giving a child a 'black' name - Most of you have probably Googled your name before. What pops up could be a handsome photo of someone who shares your name, perhaps even you. Maybe it's ...

Andrew Sullivan, terrorism, and the art of distortion | Glenn Greenwald - Challenging the conventional western narrative on terrorism produces unique amounts of rage and bile. It's worth examining why *(updated below)* Everyone ...

Lowrider Space - [image: Lowrider car parked in garage. Water damage on the garage walls behind the car. Black and white poster showin Jim Morrison on garage wall, hung sid...

Imperialism, socialism, and democracy: coups and social change in Latin America - *Originally published by *NACLA Report on the Americas IN 1960, FIDEL CASTRO DECLARED THAT "CUBA'S example would convert the Andean Cordillera into the he...

Double Tap – US Commiting What The US Calls An Act of Terror - http://bit.ly/whatisadoubletap NYU and Stanford Law Schools say we are committing a war crimes that is considered a terrorist act by our own government, in...

The Clock Strikes Red: Strike Debt /Occupy Student Debt Campaign Declaration of Solidarity with Free Cooper Union - Strike Debt and the Occupy Student Debt Campaign declare our solidarity with the students currently occupying the clock tower at Cooper Union, and with a...

Upcoming Event: Jeff Freyman on The American Empire Today - Dr. Jeff Freyman will speak at the UK Student Center, Room 113, at 7pm on Wednesday, October 24. The topic is "The American Empire Today," and the event is...

Not a Loan Democracy - http://occuprint.org/wiki/uploads/Posters/NotALoanDemocracy.png

Taxation Is Not the Answer - A few days ago, I submitted my tax documents to the various government agencies that require them. For me, as for many others I’m sure, this process was ...

Silence Of The Lambs - Seumas Milne, George Monbiot & ‘Media Analysis’ In The Guardian Wonderland One of the original aims of Media Lens, when we began in 2001, was to engage in...

Examined Life - The documentary Examined Life grounds philosophy in real world issues. Through a series of brief interviews with some of today’s most provocative thinkers,...

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Metrics and Measurement" - This is the second in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consor...

"Venezuelan Government Perspective on the Future of Petroleum" - A talk by His Excellency Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S. Session...

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