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Andrew Butler added an article on Sep 4, 2017
Comedian Frankie Boyle Responds to Criticism of Tevor Noah's Characterization of Antifa
Comedian Frankie Boyle Responds to Criticism of Tevor Noah's Characterization of Antifa
Today I saw a few people I respect enough not to have muted taking a tilt at Trevor Noah for some bit where he called out antifa, and called them “Vegan Isis”. This will sound snobbish, but I often cringe when well meaning types on the...
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 30, 2017
Freedom Can’t Be Contained by a Wall
Freedom Can’t Be Contained by a Wall
In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the...
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 25, 2017
When Petitions Actually Matter: West Papuans Risk Their Lives to End Indonesia's Occupation
When Petitions Actually Matter: West Papuans Risk Their Lives to End Indonesia's Occupation
Just another clicktivist petition pushed by corporate NGOs with no connection to grassroots struggle? Not this time – West Papuans are risking beatings, arrest, and even death to sign a petition for their right to self-determination...
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 24, 2017
This Comic Shows The Importance of Overcoming Your Fears to Achieve Your Dreams
This Comic Shows The Importance of Overcoming Your Fears to Achieve Your Dreams
This comic originally appeared exclusively in my second Zen Pencils book collection (available from all good retailers!) in 2015. I really enjoy writing
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 23, 2017
Pro Anti
Pro Anti
Antifa’s horizon is in toppling the legitimacy of extraction and ownership anchored in presumably natural foundations
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 23, 2017
Inside the New Economic Science of Capitalism's Slow-Burn Energy Collapse
Inside the New Economic Science of Capitalism's Slow-Burn Energy Collapse
And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 23, 2017
Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
The rise of fascism has injected new venom into an old debate, preventing activists from seeing movement strategy clearly.
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 23, 2017
Everything Explained With One Simple Analogy
Everything Explained With One Simple Analogy
Musician and poet Joshua Idehen took to Twitter and helped us all make sense of the many terms by our society using analogies based around your mum washing your clothes. Genius.
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 23, 2017
This Cool Desert House Made from Plastic Bottles Tackles Two Problems in One
This Cool Desert House Made from Plastic Bottles Tackles Two Problems in One
An engineer in Algeria has developed an ingenious new house building technique on a desert refugee camp. He wanted to build a home for his grandmother that would beat the heat and sandstorms, and plastic bottles were readily available...
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 22, 2017
Bowing to Endless War Advocates, Trump Vows More Bloodshed in Afghanistan
Bowing to Endless War Advocates, Trump Vows More Bloodshed in Afghanistan
Trump's "plan" for America's longest war will almost certainly increase terrorism and cause civilian deaths to skyrocket, analysts argued
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 19, 2017
As Alt-Right Gathers in Boston, Thousands Counter With Rally to Fight Supremacy
As Alt-Right Gathers in Boston, Thousands Counter With Rally to Fight Supremacy
"The Boston counter-protest is now perhaps the largest anti-racist protest this year."
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 19, 2017
Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Ruling Against Major Pipeline
Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Ruling Against Major Pipeline
Court ruling "gives hope across the country for people facing the onslaught of oil and gas infrastructure."
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 17, 2017
This Impassioned Post by a Charlottesville Resident Sets The Record Straight
This Impassioned Post by a Charlottesville Resident Sets The Record Straight
I would like to make what I hope is my last post on this before I try to go forward with my life after this weekend.
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 17, 2017
A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out on Charlottesville
A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out on Charlottesville
Christian Picciolini, former White Nationalist and founder of Life After Hate, talks to NPRs All Things Considered about his reaction to what unfolded in Charlottesville over the weekend, and about the divisiveness that's been growing...
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 17, 2017
The Sex Workers Who Are Stopping HIV
The Sex Workers Who Are Stopping HIV
Sex workers in Mozambique are providing health support to those at the margins of society. They face political and financial challenges, but against the odds they are helping thousands. Jules Montague reports.
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 16, 2017
Charlottesville Was Not a “Protest Turned Violent,” It Was a Planned Race Riot
Charlottesville Was Not a “Protest Turned Violent,” It Was a Planned Race Riot
Isn’t it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are?
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 16, 2017
If You Think Antifa is 'Just as Bad' You Probably Aren't Aware of This Long List of Attacks by The Alt-Right
If You Think Antifa is 'Just as Bad' You Probably Aren't Aware of This Long List of Attacks by The Alt-Right
An annoymous poster to Antifa International writes: you antifa guys are actually more hateful and violent than any neo nazi group in the 21st century. its fucking disgusting and you should be branded as terrorists just as much as the...
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 15, 2017
Stokes Croft: The Saga of One British Neighbourhood Reveals the Perverse Injustices of Gentrification
Stokes Croft: The Saga of One British Neighbourhood Reveals the Perverse Injustices of Gentrification
Nowhere is the sharp injustice of gentrification so grossly demonstrated as in Stokes Croft. With its world renowned street art and buzzing local scene, this area is the main fount of culture and creativity, which has propelled the city...
Andrew Butler added an article on Aug 14, 2017
White Supremacists Get Schooled in This Incredible Viral Twitter Thread
White Supremacists Get Schooled in This Incredible Viral Twitter Thread
Twitter user @JuliusGoat posted this incredible thread in response to the Unite The Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and quickly got hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes. Read it and share widely, it's epic!
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 25, 2017
Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing’
Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing’
Report demands massive expansion of military-industrial complex to maintain global ‘access to resources’
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 24, 2017
Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve
Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve
Only a global confederation of rebel cities can lead us out of the death-spiral of neoliberalism towards a new rational society that delivers on the promise of humankind.
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 17, 2017
Jiddu Krishnamurti Teaches Us To Do What We Love and Love What We Do
Jiddu Krishnamurti Teaches Us To Do What We Love and Love What We Do
Jiddu Krishnamurti knew a thing or two about fame. As a 13 year-old boy in India, he was not ‘discovered’ by a record producer or casting agent, but by one of the leaders of the Theosophical Society. The young
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 17, 2017
Is It Really Not Racist to Oppose Immigration?
Is It Really Not Racist to Oppose Immigration?
In a wide-ranging interview about Britain’s relationship with Europe and the ongoing migration crisis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said that people who raise questions about the level of immigration into the UK should...
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 12, 2017
Why the US and Britain Are Not Democracies
Why the US and Britain Are Not Democracies
Surely the United States and Britain are democracies. After all, they have free and fair elections and representative governments; freedom of speech and association means that dissent and demonstrations are tolerated; all citizens are...
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 11, 2017
Nation "Too Broke" for Universal Healthcare to Spend $406 Billion on F-35
Nation "Too Broke" for Universal Healthcare to Spend $406 Billion on F-35
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 11, 2017
The Equality Effect
The Equality Effect
Danny Dorling presents evidence that greater equality benefits everyone, rich and poor – and argues that it can offer us all political hope.
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 7, 2017
Beneath Dramatic G20 Clashes, a Deep Demand for a Better World
Beneath Dramatic G20 Clashes, a Deep Demand for a Better World
Tens of thousands descend on Hamburg, challenging policies put forth by Trump-type nationalists and Europe's neoliberals elites
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 6, 2017
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Curing unemployment is a growth market for psychologists. Job Centres are becoming medical centres, claimants are becoming patients, and unemployment is being redefined as a psychological disorder.
Andrew Butler added an article on Jul 5, 2017
Documents Expose How Hollywood Promotes War on Behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
Documents Expose How Hollywood Promotes War on Behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 29, 2017
The Muslim Tradition of Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction
The Muslim Tradition of Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction
Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or ‘Western’ imagination? Open One Thousand and One Nights – a collection of folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden...
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 26, 2017
Supreme Court Partially Lifts Block on Trump's 'Bigoted' Travel Ban
Supreme Court Partially Lifts Block on Trump's 'Bigoted' Travel Ban
"We'll be ready," said the ACLU in response to the announcement
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 26, 2017
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 26, 2017
How a Global Network of Fearless Cities Is Making Racist Colonial Nation States Obsolete
How a Global Network of Fearless Cities Is Making Racist Colonial Nation States Obsolete
Introducing a Global Network of Municipalist Cities
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 22, 2017
One Law for the Poor at Grenfell Tower
One Law for the Poor at Grenfell Tower
In austerity Britain, can justice and accountability be served for the victims of the Grenfell fire? Or are our laws already too much shaped to the needs of the business class?
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 19, 2017
It's All Too Easy to Switch off From Bad News – It's Dangerous Too
It's All Too Easy to Switch off From Bad News – It's Dangerous Too
The full horror of the Grenfell Tower fire in west London is still to emerge. Like millions of others, I watched live as TV breakfast reports showed the blaze in its intensity and eyewitnesses told of their devastating experiences and...
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 16, 2017
The Grenfell Tower Fire Could Have Been Avoided
The Grenfell Tower Fire Could Have Been Avoided
This Government Must Be Held Responsible
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 13, 2017
Epic Rant Against Rupert Murdoch Perfectly Captures UK Election Result
Epic Rant Against Rupert Murdoch Perfectly Captures UK Election Result
I see you, Rupert Murdoch. I see your whispery head, your hangdog expression, the malevolent balls of obsidian that function as your eyes. I see you shaking your head as you watch the exit polls come in, your flaccid jowls dangling...
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 13, 2017
Grime Launches a Revolution in Youth Politics
Grime Launches a Revolution in Youth Politics
It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election was ill judged. This election has highlighted the disregard for the “many” that government should serve, and after an election in...
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 12, 2017
Trump White House Vs. “House of Cards” White House
Trump White House Vs. “House of Cards” White House
Binge-watchers of the new season will find it’s hard to be shocked by the usual Underwood White House treachery and corruption.
Andrew Butler added an article on Jun 12, 2017
How Palestinians Marked 50 Years of Israeli Occupation
How Palestinians Marked 50 Years of Israeli Occupation
There are two dates ingrained in the memory of the Palestinian people. The first is May 15, 1948, the date which marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their towns and villages by Zionist Jewish...