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Commentary Landau: The Nuclear Gang Rides Again

Commentary, August, 24 2009 Saul Landau
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A group of scientists, military officials and government bureaucrats signed an informal pact with the Devil. The contract became public in August 1945, when US bombers nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Znet Article Fitz: The False Promise of Energy Efficiency and a Real Alternative

Znet Article, August, 21 2009 Don Fitz
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An action can have opposite effects, depending on it s social contexts. An isolated individual who protests company policy by refusing to go to work could well get fired and become an example used to intimidate others. When an entire workforce sta...

Commentary Shiva: Climate Change, Drought and India's Looming Food and Water Crisis

Commentary, August, 15 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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Intensification of drought, floods and cyclones is one of the predictable impacts of climate change and climate instability. The failure of monsoon in India and the consequent drought, has impacted two thirds of India, especially the bread basket ...

Znet Article D'arcy: Environmentalism as if Winning Mattered

Znet Article, August, 12 2009 Steve D'arcy
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Proposes a strategy for the environmental movement, which actually aims at winning, based on the self-organization of grassroots activism and community-based counter-capitalist alternatives.

Commentary Monbiot: The Busybody State

Commentary, August, 05 2009 George Monbiot
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Is it paranoia, or are they really out to get us? Most of the time it's paranoia. Every week I'm approached by people whispering about vapour trails from planes being used to control our minds, free energy devices suppressed by oil companies or mi...

Commentary Monbiot: Pulling Yourself Off the Ground By Your Whiskers

Commentary, July, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can't work

Znet Article Fitz: We Can Produce Less and Consume More

Znet Article, July, 15 2009 Don Fitz
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A major gulf between environmental and social justice activists is “stuff.” Environmentalists (or at least serious ones) say “less.” Social justice organizers have the habit of saying “more.”

Znet Article Rai: Thinking Strategically: Bigger Cages For Stronger Movements

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Milan Rai
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Teaching a course on strategy to a group of 12-year-olds was very helpful. Perhaps teaching any topic to 12-year-olds is helpful to a ‘teacher' trying to get to grips with what it is being taught. Among other things, I gradually realized that th...

Znet Article Glick: If You Want a Revolution, Start With a Clean Energy One

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Ted Glick
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications

Commentary Shiva: Proposed Food Security Act : Blindspots and Biases

Commentary, July, 09 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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The proposed introduction of a Food Security Act by the UPA Government is a welcome step. The Right to Food is the basis of the Right to life, and Art.21 of the Constitution guarantees the right to life of all Indian citizens.

Znet Article Hill: Briefly Addressing Anti-Civilization Theory:

Znet Article, July, 09 2009 Marcus Hill
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I would like to briefly address the anti-civilization issue that has been marginalized (both externally and internally imposed) within parts of the radical environmental Left. There is a good deal of vagueness in the theory, but to keep things bri...

Blog Post Small: Destruction and Dependence

Blog Post, July, 08 2009 Brian Small
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Nature degraded to create economic mastery over a world of slaves. Psychotic.

Commentary Tokar: Politics-as-Usual While the Planet Burns

Commentary, July, 02 2009 Brian Tokar
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A palpable sense of triumph accompanied the passage last week of a first-of-its-kind global warming bill in the US House of Representatives. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, one of the bill's two main sponsors, called it a "decisive and historic a...

Audio Trigona: Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk

Audio, June, 25 2009 Marie Trigona
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New research released by Argentina's top medical school has found that a chemical used in soy farming could be harmful to human health. The study has alarmed policy makers in the South American nation which is one of the world's largest producers...

Znet Article George: Animal Liberation and Participatory Society

Znet Article, June, 25 2009 Justin George
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Oppression and discrimination occurs across society in a variety of concurrent and interacting ways. While largely ignored or played down by the Left in general, Animal Advocacy and Liberation can be seen as a nexus for many progressive struggles.

Znet Article Lipow: Growing a Better World

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Gar Lipow
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"Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth." So begins "Prosperity Without Growth"[1], the report of the UK government's Sustainable Development Commission. Questioning growth has been the obsessive foc...

Znet Article Greeman: How to get from Here to There: A Modern 'Archimedes Hypothesis'

Znet Article, June, 21 2009 Richard Greeman
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By all appearances, capitalism, decadent since the First World War is rapidly descending into economic depression, social barbarism and ecological suicide. In 2009, slowly reforming the system - always a dubious proposition - seems less and less p...

Znet Article Fitz: What's Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?

Znet Article, June, 12 2009 Don Fitz
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With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not the Republicans. Not even the Democrats. But why is there nary a peep from unions?

Commentary Monbiot: Blue Desert

Commentary, June, 04 2009 George Monbiot
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I live a few miles from Cardigan Bay. Whenever I can get away, I take my kayak down to the beach and launch it through the waves. Often I take a handline with me, in the hope of catching some mackeral or pollock. On the water, sometimes five kilom...

Znet Article Spannos: Participatory Society: Urban Space & Freedom

Znet Article, May, 22 2009 Chris Spannos
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This talk was delivered today, Friday, May 29th at the B-Fest in Athens, Greece. The gathering is an international anti-authoritarian festival hosted by the Babylonia newspaper, at the University of Fine Arts in Athens, from May 27-31. The purpose...

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