Italian Lessons
The demoralization following the collapse in the nineties of the Communist party still shapes all aspects of Italian political life.
TOXICOLOGY: lethal forces
The poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves … categorized according to Graeber and Wengrow’s three basic forms of domination. See our About page for more info.
The Robots Are Coming and We Are Not Ready
If corporations that have no concern about people or the planet are allowed to take this to its lowest common denominator, nobody will survive on this planet except for the über-wealthy and the robots.
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Politics and Propaganda in Lebanon and Syria
Revolutionary processes are long term, with ups and downs. It’s not the end of this history. We should have hope even in these catastrophic times, and it’s very far from being the end.
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Frauducation and the New Economy
Most people pay for higher education by taking on debt. That means the individual is basically financing—through the publicly-supported federal student aid process—the training that employers will not provide. Workers are feeling that, and they are angry.
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Refugee Testimony in Northern Serbia
“Nobody asked if we were okay, if we had been beaten. All our clothes were ripped, and we slept outside. The next day we walked back to Subotica.”
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Liberalism, Fascism, and Emotional Neglect
It’s because liberalism and leftism have systematically neglected a whole range of human experience that we are in this mess right now.
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We Are Not Smarter Than How We Feel
All of us are in a collective coming-of-age of the Social Network Internet Machine, and we’re starting to understand that it affects us emotionally, as a global world, together. And it has mood swings.
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Un-shit Your Head
Advertising is fuel for our capitalist economy based on consumption and exponential growth, which obviously is non-sustainable. That can’t help but cause problems for the environment—and is arguably also responsible for resource wars and widening inequality.
Sex Workers and Health Policy Hypocrisy
PEPFAR programming must be preserved—but it must also be reconfigured, with guidance from voices of the subaltern that question neocolonial and paternalistic impositions and counter epistemic violence.
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Walls as Weapons, Property as Death
If people can get beyond the fears and policies that perpetuate this world of security, then maybe we could get beyond that dead-end. Or we’ll just all die at the dead-end together.
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