Economy
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LISTEN: Jeff Mackler & Mickey Z. Discuss Mass Mobilization To Replace Capitalism
Feb. 3, 2015 (Project Censored) -- Jeff Mackler and Mickey Z. discuss how existing social movements might expand into a mass mobilization to replace the capitalist system. In the course of the ...
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As Night Closes In | John Michael Greer
Feb. 4, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- I was saddened to learn a few days ago, via a phone call from a fellow author, that William R. Catton Jr. died early last month, just short of his 89th birthday. ...
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Rollerball Amerika 2015 | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2015 You must see or revisit Norman Jewison's 1975 film Rollerball, starring James Caan as superstar player Jonathan E. In it, we ...
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The One Way Forward | John Michael Greer
John Michael Greer(Editor's note: John Michael Greer suggests in the following essay that it might be best for modern civilization to revert to an earlier technological form. He points to the ...
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Collective Efforts + Self-Education = Social Change | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 28, 2014 Thesis: We cannot be effective activists if we work alone. We cannot be truly radical without cultivating love and compassion for ...
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Draghi Commits to Trillion-Euro QE Plan in Deflation Fight | Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy
European Union flag. Credit: Yanni Koutsomitis (Flickr)Jan. 22, 1015 (Bloomberg) -- Mario Draghi led the European Central Bank into a new era with an historic pledge to buy government bonds as part ...
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The Mariner's Rule | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJan. 21, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern ...
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Street Smarts, Ecocide, and the Pope’s Mother | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 21, 2015 “If says something bad about my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s to be expected.” - Pope Francis I grew up in Astoria, Queens, ...
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IMF Lowers Global Growth Forecast by Most in Three Years | Andrew Mayeda
Jan. 20, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- The IMF made the steepest cut to its global-growth outlook in three years, with diminished expectations almost everywhere except the U.S. more than offsetting the boost ...
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Richest 1 Percent To Have More Than Rest of Humanity Combined | Jon Queally
New Oxfam report shows the scale of global inequality is 'simply staggering' (Graphic: Oxfam International) Jan. 19, 2015 (Common Dreams) -- In less than two years, if current trends continued ...
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Humans Have Brought World's Oceans to Brink of 'Major Extinction Event' | Deirdre Fulton
But 'proactive intervention' could still avert marine disaster, researchers find "Although defaunation has been less severe in the oceans than on land, our effects on marine animals are increasing ...
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