New World Water
We’re pulling water up so fast that it’ll be gone in our lifetime. The Ogallala Aquifer will be gone. There aren’t any ifs ands or buts; it’s just a case of when and how fast it goes.
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.
What is Domination? What is Liberation?
I want to emphasize the face-to-face element. There’s no example of large-scale social change that does not involve thousands of one-on-one meetings, small group meetings.
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What Form Should Our Movement Take?
The best chance we have to challenge the dominant social structure is precisely from within it. Global systems of production, circulation, administration, etc., hold the means to provide material necessities for everyone on earth. Our ultimate goal is to make them serve humanity.
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Reading ‘World Systems Analysis’ in Tehran
Immanuel Wallerstein resonates in Iran because he not only combines all the great intellectual traditions of European and American social science, but he uses them to challenge the status quo.
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An Assault on the Mind
When you handcuff ten-year-olds because they’ve had a temper tantrum in the classroom, that suggests something about the way any respect for the social, any respect for relationships, has begun to collapse.
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“The World We Live in Is Created by Slavery”
The Atlantic economy was qualitatively different in terms of the work that was demanded, the absolute treatment of people as chattel, the brutality, the equation of forced labor with skin color, the distances traveled, and the massive number of people who were ripped out of their homes.
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Dragnets and Pre-Crime
It might be worth pointing out that it is unrealistic to think that we can catch every crime before it happens. Right? There was a movie about that.
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Fifty Shades of Brown
We take no side in the conflict between the Ukrainian and the Russian nationalists. But many protesters against the regime of Yanukovych will be dissatisfied with both rapacious policies which will hit the pocket of workers, and the “national revolution.”
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Fraudulent Banks and Fatigued Movements
I thought maybe the banks are just as confused as we are. This is so sudden, so many houses underwater at once. But then Bloomberg did an article revealing that Bank of America was deliberately doing this stuff.
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Tensions in Budapest
When you say ‘fascism,’ when you say ‘extreme right,’ what are you really talking about? What do you expect these guys to do? What do you think is going to come out of this?
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