A Learning Library for Changing the World

You Can’t Hurt the Gangsters at the Capitalist Casino by Shuffling the Chips Around to Different Bets. You Take Their Chips off the Table.
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The spectacle of watching the entire professional investing class and the financial media descend into a panicked frenzy thanks to a bunch of Reddit-fueled waves of stock-pumping has certainly...

Open Letter to Bernie, the Squad and Progressive US Lawmakers: State Repression of the Farmers’ Movement in India
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Dear Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen Ed Markey, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Ocasio Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Pramila...

The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming
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The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on...

We Must Act With Unprecedented Boldness to Meet These Historical Crises
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The headlines dominating the news understandably deal with the outrageous behavior of President Donald Trump and the attempted coup he inspired at our nation’s Capitol.

Yes, it was important for...

Don’t Let President Biden Make Us the Dupes of Our Hopes
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At inauguration time, journalist I. F. Stone wrote, incoming presidents “make us the dupes of our hopes.” That insight is worth pondering as Joe Biden ascends to the presidency. After four years...

The Doomer Mentality Dooms Us to Failure
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Anyone who is honest about the present state of affairs on this planet knows that things are very bad.

The oceans are dying. Coral reefs are collapsing. We’re living through a 6th mass extinction...

Who Really Designates America’s Priorities, Villains and Future?
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Capitalism worships a god of profit over human lives, which is anathemic to legitimate democratic representation. It is also a belief system which normalizes and glorifies ’elite’ greed- with...

Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
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Joe Biden’s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party’s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising US elections. The Biden victory, the Democratic Party leaders and...

Both And
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The Chinese word “tao” is an attempt to define the nameless, often unconscious, energy source, both physical and non-physical, that exists within us, between us and essentially fuels everything...

Children of the Lie
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The old psychiatric phrase ‘out of touch with reality’ was once reserved for ps

Racism Is No Illusion. ’Racecraft’ Is.
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In the months since police killed George Floyd, a clear cultural shift has taken place. Not only has there been a dramatic increase in public support for reforms to address police violence across...

The Last Chance to Save SCOTUS, and RBG’s Legacy
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Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
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This is the first of at least two book reviews that I am planning to write about Naomi Klein’s important and occasionally frustrating, quite-large book (466 page) This Changes Everything...

#Nicecleanvote
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Sport is a bipartisan attraction in America today. No matter your party, you probably enjoy engaging in or following some matchup that takes it to the mat, court, or gridiron.

Before starting in...

What to Do When the World is on Fire
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/what-to-do-when-the-world-is-on-fire

In December of 2019, my best friend Kit took me and my partner to the place where she grew up, in the remote Thora Valley, in the pristine forested foothills of Eastern Australia’s Great Dividing...

World on Fire
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/world-on-fire-charles-eisenstein

Brazil’s Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, covering an area nearly the size of Britain. Only today, it isn’t so wet. After a summer of drought, catastrophic fires are raging that...

A Vision of Creation: Progress in the Long View of History
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The arc of history is long and tiresome, but the events of the past are never as far away as we would like to believe they are. To understand where we are going, we must reflect on where we’ve...

We Can Do Better Than This
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My wife, Stella, recently shut down her account on the social-media-platform-that-must-not-be-named. “It feels like I’m walking away from a fight,” she said. “Almost everything I read there is a...

Ten Days of Charles Eisenstein
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Beware:

At war

Or at peace,

More people die

Of unenlightened self-interest

Than of any other disease.

From Earthseed: The Books of the Living

~Octavia Butler

 

I recently finishe

We Can’t Just Oppose Racism: We Must Transcend Race
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What does it mean for a racially designated person to no longer accept that designation?

I didn’t fully realise the significance of being coded as black until I was thirteen. I grew up in a proud...