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"Hope is like a road in the forest. There never was a road, but when many people walk that way, the road comes into existence." Lin Yu-Tang
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Animals Enjoy Life. Why Don’t We?
The fable that animals’ lives are miserable hurts in two ways. It justifies treating them badly, since whatever we do to them can’t be any worse than what they suffer anyway. And it tells us to gratefully accept however little we are given, because it’s better than what the animals have. Continue reading
Don’t Let Israel Kill My Friends
Child in front of her bombed house in Gaza Image: Samah Askar I’m sitting at my desktop wondering when my friends will be killed. Across 7,400 miles separation from Gaza, I can feel my friend Samah Askar’s terror and grief … Continue reading
USA and Israel: Partners in War Crime
The partnership between Israel and the USA is burning down Gaza and the world. They have become a crime family, more accurately a war crime family. Five ways both countries commit international crimes and get away with it. Continue reading
Pioneer Days Are Over
This is not about capitalism vs. socialism or taking shorter showers. It’s about remembering in our hearts where we come from, loving our world as we love ourselves, and fighting for it against a system that is killing it. Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, conservation, deforestation, indigenous teachings, sharing, space exploration
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We Need Economic Stability, Not Economic Growth
Growth is good up to a point. In the rich countries, according to economist Herman Daly, we are far past that point. The more we grow from here on, the worse off we will be. Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, eco-socialism, economics, forests, sharing, UBI
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Confessions of a Conspiracy Theorist
If our corporate rulers really wanted to reduce the level of conspiracy thinking, they could stop lying to us. But they won’t stop, because their whole imperial system depends on lies. When a corporate media story doesn’t make sense, research it, and speak up about what you find. Continue reading
You May Be Privileged
You may be privileged
If animals and plants
Give you their bodies
Each day, to feed your body. Continue reading
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Tagged animals, environment, freedom, gratitude, happiness
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How Free Markets Damage People and Planet
“Markets without restrictions are like cars without brakes,” writes Dr. Ha-Joon Chang of Cambridge. “They’re bound to keep crashing.” Continue reading
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Tagged economics, environment, freedom, labor, neoliberalism, politics
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Cruelty Vs. Caring in America
Many Americans consider hard-heartedness a virtue. They call making people suffer, ‘promoting individual responsibility’ and have managed to create a society of widespread misery in the midst of affluence. Millions of Americans don’t go along with the cult of cruelty, though. They are fighting for a society based on caring, Continue reading
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Tagged economics, homelessness, hunger, incarceration, sanctions, war
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Alabama Amazon Workers Could Arrest America’s Slide
Unions mostly collapsed because large factories disappeared. Without large workplaces in which workers can associate, and without the power to shut down production with strikes, labor has a much harder time organizing. We are all living harder lives as a result. Now in Bessemer, Alabama, over 5,000 mostly Black workers at an Amazon warehouse may reverse that downward slide. Continue reading