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Category Archives: anarchism
THE ANTI-STATIST: A REBEL FOR OUR TIMES
By Gary Z McGee Source: Waking Times “One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.” ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn All flag worshipers have the same unhealthy religion: statism. Flag worship is a nationalist’s false idol. It doesn’t matter if you’re … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authority, conditioning, Conformity, culture, Freedom, Government, Justice, Morality, nationalism, Philosophy, psychology, Responsibility, society, Sociology, Statism
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The Real Noam Chomsky
By Raul Fernandez Berriozabal Source: The Wall Will Fall This will not be a popular post, simply because of the cult of personality of mythical dimensions built around the figure of Professor Noam Chomsky, regardless, I am posting at the … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged Authoritarianism, Bashar Al Assad, BDS Movement, bodily integrity, CIA, civil liberties, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, Despotism, empire, fascism, Gatekeepers, geopolitics, imperialism, Israel, Medicare for All, NATO, Noam Chomsky, Palestine, Pandemic, propaganda, Public Health, Technocracy, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, vaccine mandates, war
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The Culture of Vehicular Attacks
On the Murder of Deona Marie Erickson By CrimethInc. On June 13, a driver attacked a demonstration in Minneapolis, killing Deona Marie Erickson. This is the result of years of right-wing efforts to normalize—and even legalize—vehicular attacks. Now the corporate … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, freedom of speech, Law, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged activism, Anarchism, Breonna Taylor, civil liberties, Deona Marie Erickson, fascism, George Floyd, Government, Heather Heyer, law, Nicholas Kraus, police state, Police Violence, racism, Systemic Racism, Winston Smith
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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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