Alternatives to Political Systems
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Property Rights and Public Accommodations
Copyright 2010 by Ernest Partridge. Published here with permission of the author. In the early sixties, the young black students…
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Crises of Capitalism
Further reading/watching: Money as Debt The Crash Course Demystifying Economics Chicago’s $1.3 Million Experiment in Democracy Rediscovering Democracy Democracy for…
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A Fresh Look at Gandhi – Part II
by Thomas Fischbacher. Read Part I here. History has seen many an ideology fail that wrongly believed to "finally" explain…
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Privatized Hell
Editor’s Note: Some prefer to only talk about swales and banana circles, but I hope enough of you recognise that…
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Sending Off the Ref
The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich. by George Monbiot: journalist,…
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Capitalism’s Crowning Achievement – a Cold, Cold Heart, and Deceit to Hide It
The following video is shocking. If you don’t want to see real people getting killed with real bullets, then please…
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Letters from the West Bank – Seeds of Hope Scattered from the West Bank’s First PDC
Editor’s caution: I trust our objective, peace-loving permaculture readers will resist the temptation to comment such, but just in case,…
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Carbon Trading Under Scrutiny
People for or against carbon trading would do well to download and read these two excellent new publications There are…
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Chicago’s $1.3 Million Experiment in Democracy
For the first time in the U.S., the city’s 49th Ward lets taxpayers directly decide how public money is spent.…
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The Century of Self
Don’t miss this documentary! In it Adam Curtis (producer of another excellent documentary we shared recently), takes a captivating look…
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Letters from Chile – a Little Historical Context
Editor’s Note: This is Part VIII of a series. If you haven’t already, be sure to catch Part I, Part…
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100 Million Dollar Budget Cut – Mountain or Molehill?
Regular readers will remember I’ve tried to put some of the dollar figures politicians almost casually throw around, like they’re…
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