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The Secret to Being as Radical as We Want to Be is to Finance the Revolution Ourselves

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:28:00 +0100

The problem with activism today is that it is largely funded by grants and gifts from rich foundations and individuals. The long-standing assumption that you can take the money with few strings attached, and then run, needs to be fundamentally re-examined. Michael Shuman and Merrian Fuller point the way to an alternative model in which non-profits say goodbye to funders and start generating their own resources.

American Agriculture Increasingly Resembles a Soviet Failure

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:26:08 +0100

If Stalin could see American agriculture today, he�d assume his forced collectivization had caught on. Like its Soviet predecessor, modern American farming is characterized by centralization: an absence of open markets, decision-making by distant officials, and growing techniques that poison and exhaust the land.

Creative Sparks: The Artistic Lives of Machines

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:10:02 +0100

In the late 1990s, Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil, Neil Gershenfeld and Kevin Warwick all published popular books predicting that artificial intelligence would soon overtake human intelligence in every way, including creativity. If they are right, then we will, in the not-to-distant future, see machines creating works of art, new scientific theories, inventing new devices, even designing their own successors � and doing it all at blinding speed.

Is Our Fate Tied to China's Growth?

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:01:39 +0100

Water in five of China�s largest rivers is now so polluted it�s dangerous to touch, acid rain bathes 30 percent of land, half its forests have gone, and two-thirds of major cities fail air quality standards � with officials admitting that in some areas breathing is like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. But the picture wasn�t always this bleak.

My Husband is Palestinian

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:35:18 +0100

An acquaintance � Richard � recently asked where my husband is from. I told him he is Palestinian. �That is an interesting problem,� said Richard without missing a beat. I nodded my head and smiled and said nothing.

I am Blessedly American

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:31:41 +0100

I drive my kids to school Monday to Friday so they can learn spelling and computers. On weekends, we sip frozen cappuccinos and watch Saturday matinees. We surf the net and sign off at bedtime. At first glance, life holds no tangible terror. However, in the quiet moments, we feel short of breath, as if we�re slowly suffocating.

Kimchi Power

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:11:33 +0100

On September 10, 2003, some 150 South Koreans were trying to pull down a security barrier at the WTO negotiations in Cancun. While the barrier heaved and flags burned, one farmer � whose land had been repossessed by the bank � scrambled to the top of the fence.

Is it Fascism Yet?

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:47:49 +0100

In a parking lot in suburban Philadelphia, a mother buckles her child into the car seat. She puts the groceries in the back of the station wagon, and as she pulls the door down I see, on a piece of paper taped on the window the question �Is it fascism yet?�

Corporate Criminals of 2005

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:21:22 +0100

The fall of multi-million dollar energy broker Enron was one of the most dramatic corporate implosions in recent memory.

Journalists Need More Courage

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:57:10 +0100

With 57 years of White House reporting, Helen Thomas is commonly referred to as �The First Lady of the Press.� She talked to Adbusters associate editor Deborah Campbell about the state of journalism today.