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Collective Revolution And Individual Enlightening Are The Same Thing
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Revolution–the real kind–is an inside job. This is not a click-friendly fact to highlight. Whenever I talk about revolution as having more to do with sincere inner work than with demonstrations and pitchforks and the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, consciousness, culture, elites, Health, patriotism, Psychology, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Awakening, Consciousness, culture, Ego, enlightening, Enlightenment, Inner Work, Philosophy, psychology, Revolution, Self Help, self-realization, society, Sociology, spirituality
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Political Collapse: The Center Cannot Hold
By Kirkpatrick Sale Source: CounterPunch Have you noticed? From Hong Kong to Baghdad, Paris to Tehran, 2019 is shaping up to be, as the New York Times dubbed it, “the year of the protest.” Violent—and often deadly—anti-government protests are breaking … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Anarchy, Autocracy, Chaos, Civil War, Climate Change, Corporate Crime, Dystopia, elites, Failed States, Immigration, migration, Oligarchy, Political collapse, Poverty, protests, Refugees, Resource depletion, terrorism, war
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The 4 Greatest Enemies of the State
By Gary Z McGee Source: The Mind Unleashed “It’s no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Krishnamurti How do we know that our society is profoundly sick? 1.) Our society pollutes the air it needs to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, war
Tagged Consciousness, Courage, Education, environment, Food, Freedom, Gandhi, Government, Justice, Krishnamurti, Minds, Nonviolence, Peace, Philosophy, pollution, Self-Defense, society, spirituality, State, Statism, Violence, Water
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When the state is unjust, citizens may use justifiable violence
By Jason Brennan Source: aeon If you see police choking someone to death – such as Eric Garner, the 43-year-old black horticulturalist wrestled down on the streets of New York City in 2014 – you might choose to pepper-spray them … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Law, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged active self-defense, Authority, civil disobedience, Eric Garner, Ethics, Government, Injustice, law, Philosophy, police state, Police Violence, racism, Social Change, When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice
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Building a Cooperative Economy
By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Source: Resilience In permaculture terms the economy sometimes feels like a segregated monoculture planted with terminator seeds, sprayed with patented pesticides on venture capital backed farms designed to maximise profits in an unsustainable market place full of … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, consciousness, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, internet freedom, media, Philosophy, Science, society, Technology
Tagged Agile Development, Collaboration, Cooperation, Diversity, Economics, Federated Technology, Holo Project, Holochain, Monoculture, Network Effect, Occupy, OPEN Conference, Open Source, Peer to Peer, Permaculture, Platform Co-ops, Self Regulation, The Open Food Network, Zero Waste
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Writing Nameless Things: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
(Editor’s note: in light of the recent passing of Ursula K. Le Guin we should appreciate even more the wisdom and insight communicated through her novels as well as in this article from last November, one of Le Guin’s last … Continue reading
3 Characteristics of a True Political Awakening
By Sigmund Fraud Source: Waking Times History is written by the winners, or so they say, but there is an agreed upon version of our story that is taught to us in school and reinforced in everyday life by the … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Economics, Inequality, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Consciousness, Corporate Interests, Corporatism, Deep State, Economics, Global Elites, Government, history, Ideology, Money, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, Politicians, politics, Statism, war
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Live Free or Die: The Psychology of Rebellion & Dissent
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “I rebel—therefore we exist.” ~Albert Camus, The Rebel Dissent is a tricky subject. The need to rebel against atrocity is deeply ingrained in the human condition. Even if most of us don’t act … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Albert Camus, culture, dissent, Freedom, Liberty, Morality, Philosophy, Rebellion, society, The Rebel, Violence
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