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EACH MORNING I WAKE UP AND FIND MYSELF IN A LULL. AM I PATHETIC? AM I NOT INFORMED? CORPORATIONS DOMINATE MORE NOW THAN THEY EVER HAVE AT ANY TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY, BUT I FEEL NOTHING.
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If you look at the MeToo and BLM movements and ask Why Now? What was different this time?, it’s clear some key conditions were in place. A sort of energy had been building, an invisible rising heat that needed to meet its historical moment, and a final torch blast to get it to Fahrenheit 451.
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Industrial farming is a war with nature. It’s about killing everything so one plant can grow. “You could argue that modern agriculture has brought about the most wholesale ecocide on the planet by killing the astonishingly rich microbial life of the soil,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg for The New York Review of Books. Scraping away layer after layer of fertile, living soil, industrial farmers since the 19th century “simply mined their way downward … until they reached the place we are now.” That is, at the barren limit of rock bottom.
Read More...Dive deep into long form features on everything from smartphone addiction to what a True-Cost global marketplace would mean for the economy.
here’s a lot of brainpower converging on the global climate emergency, with green-energy and biosphere-repair ideas being floated in every country on earth. The hope is that each small advance is a piece of the puzzle, and a fair, just, sustainable and secure global system will emerge if we all just commit to reducing carbon emissions through every hack we can think of.
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Over the last couple of generations, we in the so-called “developed” world have eased into a very cushy way of living. We love our dish washers, spin dryers and microwave ovens. We love our throw away diapers, pre-washed veggies and ready-to-eat dinners delivered right to our door. And we love cruising in our cars with our favorite music playing. The idea of living more austere lives is anathema. We’re hooked on all of this stuff now. Whatever it takes, we gotta ...
Read More...Je veux vous parler de résistance. La résistance, c'est ce que les gens ressentent lorsqu'ils ne peuvent simplement pas faire face à ce qui doit être fait. Quelque chose d'important se trouve droit devant eux, mais c'est tellement effrayant, tellement terrifiant par ses impacts dans leur mode de vie confortable, qu'ils ne peuvent pas y faire face. Ils résistent. Plus la peur est grande, plus la résistance est grande.
Read More...Our fingers are on the global pulse, counting beats as we stutter towards the throes of death. If you want to know what Adbusters thinks about the news, this is where you find it.
We're in the middle of a guerrilla marketing war for the future of the planet. Conventional weapons are useless — all we have are ideas. These are the best of our culture jams.
Listen to the voice of Adbusters proffering sweet ASMR vibes about the end of capitalism and where Occupy Wall Street went wrong.
Memes can be cinematic too. Turn up the volume and watch the chaos of the world unfold and disintegrate before your very eyes.
Canada's House of Commons delivered an uncontested rebuke to Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party by declaring that the Chinese state is committing a genocide of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province.
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Though Arturo Di Modica has left us, his most famous artwork lives on — a brazen idol to be honored and worshiped amid the modern world's financial Babylon. Mammon couldn't be more pleased.
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"Respected citizens, the current event is illegal. We are doing everything to ensure your safety," said a police officer, lying through his teeth over a loudspeaker last weekend in Moscow
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