Tragic Idealism and the Art of ‘The Impossible’

Colin Todhunter

The following article is adapted from the author’s new book The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible, which is freely available to read online or download...

Who Really Owns America? The Banks, the Billionaires, and the Deep State

John & Nisha Whitehead

“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They...

Out of Time

Edward Curtin

“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in...

WATCH: The Only REAL Solution to Digital ID – #SolutionsWatch

Hakeem Anwar of AbovePhone.com returns to the de-program to discuss his latest report: “Life Under Digital ID: A Global Analysis with Solutions.” We talk about what digital ID is,...

Fungi Funk

Sylvia Shawcross

Now, here’s the good news: with the price of groceries continuing to go up it will only take 2 to 3 months before people resort to cannibalism. Okay…Maybe that...

BRICS to introduce multipolar carbon markets

Riley Waggaman

On November 22, the G20 will gather in BRICS-state South Africa to discuss the #1 crisis facing humankind: the nations of the world are struggling to meet their UN...

Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Kleptocracy: a society whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the rest of the people.” Cambridge Dictionary America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years...

WATCH: The Dark Legacy of Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney is dead. But what does it mean? The lying corporate dinosaur media will tell you that America has just lost a dear, selfless, civic-minded patriot. But as...

PANEL: Independent Media Alliance Discuss Digital ID

The Independent Media Alliance convenes once again, this time to discuss the global roll out of digital identity programs. We talk definitions, use cases, cyber-ethics, personal lines in the...

The Huntingdon Train Attack: Speculation and Further Questions

Iain Davis

On Saturday Novembers 1st, ten people travelling on the 18.45 London North Eastern Railway (LNER) service from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to London’s King’s Cross station were reportedly stabbed and...

Did AI just Evolve? I don’t think so.

VN Alexander

On October 23, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, hosts of the DarkHorse podcast, reported the discovery, which is described in a pre-print paper (not peer-reviewed). Weinstein and Heying were spooked by the...

Black, White, and the Comfortable Lie

Todd Hayen

I was talking to a very close friend the other day who happens to be a die-hard Trump hater (I know what you are thinking, don’t ask). We unfortunately...

The Agrarian Imagination: The Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky ‘s Moral Underground

Colin Todhunter

“A great deal depends upon a right relationship with the soil; the right relationship with the soil is the basis for the right relationship with one another.” Wendell Berry,...

REVIEW: Martyrs to the Unspeakable – A Luminous Tapestry of Truth

Edward Curtin

To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created with Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK takes a steady hand, a...

Jay Forrester & the Blueprints of Ecological Doom

David Fleming & Niall McCrae

When the Club of Rome’s first report, The Limits to Growth, was published in 1972, the editor of the prestigious academic journal Nature was scathing. John Maddox criticised irresponsible...

WATCH: The Nobel War Prize Strikes Again

And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to…María Corina Machado? Wait, what’s going on here? Why does it seem like, far from celebrating a champion of peace, the Nobel Committee...

Who Would Jesus Bomb? The Gospel According to the Military-Industrial Complex

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Thomas Jefferson>/a> For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war,...

Pick and Choose Your Own Truth

Todd Hayen

Here I go again. Getting perplexed by the sheep-types in my life. I seem to be in a constant state of cognitive dissonance. I’ve whacked my forehead so many...

WATCH: Self-Publishing – #SolutionsWatch

This week on #SolutionsWatch, James is joined by Tom-Oliver Regenauer, a self-taught publisher whose German language self-published books now regularly outsell major publishing houses in Germany. He discusses how...

Beyond the Farm Laws: Corporate Cloud Poised to Reign Over India’s Fields

Colin Todhunter

Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is clear that the government’s underlying agenda remains intact. The repeal...