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The Joke Is on Us

The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism.

Chris Hedges

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.

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The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!

Tim Hjersted

The Circle of Life: How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything

By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.

George Monbiot

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?

Steve Bearman

The Conflicting Way Women Relate to Sex (And How to Overcome It)

Men are obsessed with sex, according to this article by Steve Bearman in Elephant Journal (and re-posted on this website). Men are thought to think about sex all the time, and allowed to...

Nina Koevoets

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

I’m sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city’s heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk...

Douglas Haddow

Bookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy: A Contribution by Yavor Tarinski

[Murray Bookchin] was a true son of the Enlightenment in his respect for clear thought and moral responsibility and in his honest, uncompromising search for a realistic hope.

Yavor Tarinski

The White Man in That Photo

Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer...

Riccardo Gazzaniga

7 Reasons Not to Rake Your Leaves

Fall leaves are not a nuisance. They’re part of the natural ecosystem, providing free mulch and fertilizer, wildlife habitat, and a beautiful array of butterflies and birds in the spring.

Return to Now

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and...

George Lakey

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.

David Cain

Chomsky's Assistant of 24 Years: "I Saw Every Message He Sent"

This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain...

Bev Stohl

FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared

From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World Cup as it kicks off in Mexico City on...

Tamara Pearson

America’s Suicide Pact

America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.

Chris Hedges

What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class

I write this not as an enemy of the left but as someone who believes it has lost the thread of its own best tradition. That tradition is the democratic socialism of Eduard Bernstein, who...

David Schultz

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

"When working-class people (or their upper-class idols) argue that the rich must get richer to properly motivate the rich, but the poor must stay poor or else they will lose all...

Yasha Levine

Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch

Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.

Mark Greene

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of...

Tim Hjersted

Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory

Gad Saad’s “suicidal empathy” thesis is the kind of shallow culture-war framing that sounds clever in a tweet but falls apart when you look at it seriously.

Tim Hjersted

Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way

There is no alternative ("Tina") to capitalism?

Richard Wolff

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives...

Kathleen Harris

Queer Muslims Exist - and We Are in Mourning Too

This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that

Samra Habib

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival...

Russell Means

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.

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Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

For the majority of the past century, a battle has been waged between two dominant ideologies – capitalism and communism. Both competing economic systems focus on how best to allocate...

Chris Agnos

Four Kinds of Dystopia

The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were:

Darren Allen

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the...

James Gilligan

The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World

Hungry for change? These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.

Tim Hjersted

Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture

"All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given." - Joanna Macy

Dahr Jamail

Top 25 Censored Stories Of 2013 and a List of Independent Alternatives to the Corporate Media

Every year Project Censored puts together a list of the top 25 stories censored and ignored by the mainstream media. The recently published Censored 2013 covers the period between 2011-2012.

Tim Hjersted

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."

Panic Volkushka

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John F Schumaker says a frightening erosion of human personality lies at...

John F. Schumaker

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012

2012 was another big year for break-out films in the social change genre. With most of the bases covered for all of the major problems we're facing, more and more films this year focused...

Tim Hjersted

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