🌱 Education for feminism, ecology and direct democracy. 🌱 Established 1974 by Murray Bookchin and Dan Chodorkoff.

In this special episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Naomi Klein is joined by tech analyst, journalist, and author, Paris Marx to break down the dangers behind Silicon Va...

"How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants," the pope's speech read.

This is the first episode in a new series I’m creating on the 100 Great Anarchist Thinkers (for the full series and much more, check out the Patreon at patre...

In this introductory video, I explore Murray Bookchin's groundbreaking work, The Ecology of Freedom, and discuss how capitalism actively disconnects us from ...

In this episode, I’m joined by Seamus Geoghan to talk about what it means to build real community as the system around us falls apart. We get into the role o...

Heritage Foundation Background The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich to “formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.” The Heritage Foundation has been a […]

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]

Donald Trump's raucous return to the White House is emblematic of how an ascendant far-right movement is coordinating to defeat climate policies and push a fossil fuel agenda across North America, the UK, and Europe.

Award winning website researching and exposing campaigns attacking climate change science.

Here are 7 quick highlights from the Office of the Correctional Investigator, Ten Years since Spirit Matters: Indigenous Issues in Federal Corrections (released November 1, 2023). It is based on “over 200 interviews with...

How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.

A short and easy-to-consult document to help you identify misinformation and discuss strategies to address it both online and offline.

A emFinancial Times/em best book of the year and one of emThe New Yorker’/ems “Political Books to Help Us Make Sense of 2024” br / br / An eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment., Offshore, Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, Brooke Harrington, 9781324064947

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Far-right, white supremacist, and ethno-nationalist movements in Europe and the United States continue to thrive, propagating racism, hatred, and violence.

A History of the Alt-Right

Given their disparate ideologies, conservatives and liberals generally reach different conclusions about such economic issues as how modern economies operate, what should be the role of government economic policies and regulations, and what levels of income and wealth inequality should be tolerated. While the foregoing economic debate between the two camps has been ongoing for…

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Here’s a tiny question. In your darker moments — do you wonder if, well, in some elemental sense, the world around us is ending? That things have changed? Doesn’t something deep down in your gut…

How do we fight it? This tide of ugliness, stupidity, and hate sweeping our world, drowning our nations, ravaging our everyday lives? This is the question I get most often. I’m reluctant to answer…

1 in 3 people on Planet Earth are living through a record-breaking heatwave right now. Thailand has just recorded the hottest temperatures it’s ever had — 45ºC (113ºF) — and a record breaking heat…

There are headlines, and then there are headlines. I was scanning the news this morning, and this jumped out and slapped me right in the face: Whew. Sound like a big deal? It should. If it doesn’t…

Good question. Deceptively simple — yet a deep, profound question. Let’s talk about it. Let me rephrase the question, in a way I’ll come back to. What is The Age of Extinction, sociopolitically? It’s…

So much doom in the air. And yes, I’m guilty of it, too — hands held up. Today, let’s talk about a place that’s emerged as a beacon in a world going dark. A place near and dear to my heart, special…

It’s not just an Extinction Summer — it’s also becoming a Hot Strike Summer. Around the world, discontent is growing — and strikes are rising. And these two things are related. Let’s discuss it —…

They’re calling it the first global heatwave. In China, the temperature reached 52.2ºC (126ºF), shattering records. In Arizona, it was 47ºC (116ºF). In California, 128ºF (53.33ºC). In the Persian…

Extinction summer. Four great heat domes stretch across the globe. The planet, they say, is burning, and the oceans boiling. And people are startled, shocked, and bewildered. This fast? This hard…