Yes! Magazine (David Korten). Excellent journalism. This article alone is worth a donation! Excerpt: Clark: If I could live every day of my life like I did that time out there, I’d die the happiest man on Earth. It felt like I lived 10 lifetimes in the week I was at Standing Rock, and I […]
‘They couldn’t have chosen a worse place for an industrial facility’ by Nika Knight, staff writer (NOTE: Search this blog on “Skeena”. We joined others as long ago as 2007 to protect this River.) The Skeena River, where Canada’s second largest salmon run occurs each year, is to be the site of a liquefied […]
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right […]
Written in 1898: I thought, on the contrary, that a revolutionary paper must be, above all, a record of those symptoms which everywhere announce the coming of a new era, the germination of new forms of social life, the growing revolt against antiquated institutions. These symptoms should be watched, brought together in their intimate connection, […]
It is my pleasure to alert you to this interview and to Harold’s book, “Firewater”. I am looking forward to reading it. Harold is an unassuming intelligence. We haven’t talked much, I don’t know him well, but here once again I find myself wishing there were more Harold Johnsons in our midst. He makes good […]
Thanks to Janet, an excellent article. A couple things first: I wondered, Who is Walden Bello? He is an intrepid activist, teacher, scholar. One in that legion of dispersed leaders who make me believe that my small contributions will help to drive the changes we so badly need. About Walden Bello, see http://www.waldenbello.org/about-walden/ Background to the Battle in […]
Monsanto have announced that they will dismantle their half-built multi-million dollar GMO seed plant in Malvinas, Argentina, following protests from local citizens over the past 3 years. Local Malvinas citizens and GMO Free campaigners from across Argentina forced Monsanto to stop the construction of their GMO seed plant in 2014, through well-coordinated protests at the […]
When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act by Gideon Haigh Monday 1 August 2016 On Good Friday this year, Dr Bronwyn King and her husband were staying with her parents in […]
Newly released files show PM’s press chief suggested releasing footage of royal baby to keep CND protests out of the news Princess Diana with Prince William in 1983, a time of growing opposition to the deployment of US cruise missiles in UK. Photograph: Anwar Hussein/WireImage Margaret Thatcher was privately warned by foreign secretary Francis […]
Many of us have concluded that big business is running the show. We have corporatocracy, not democracy. If that is the case, by definition, there has been a coup d’état by stealth in Canada (and in the U.S.). From 2010-09-13 RCMP identify coup d’etat as threat to Canada, Ottawa Citizen. “Military historian Edward Luttwak says, […]