2009 May | Dismantle Civilisation

Crash Into Me

Posted in equality, feminism, sexuality on May 31st, 2009 2 Comments »

Resist Do Not Comply

Posted in collapse, not 'hope', resistance on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »

This is not a video about polar bears, really, although if you just want to watch a video about polar bears, then feel free to watch this anyway. The difference is, there is something more going on here – a simple but potentially effective message about you.

Why haven’t you fought back yet? Read more »

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911 Trek – funny if it weren’t true

Posted in fascism/corporatism on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »

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America’s Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia

Posted in fascism/corporatism on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »

Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry
by Andrew Hughes, at Global Research.
After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came [...] Read more »

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The sinking Titanic: interview with Michael C. Ruppert

Posted in collapse, peak oil on May 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »

The collapse of industrial civilization within the next five to ten
years (perhaps sooner) is inevitable. It is the degree of collapse,
what is destroyed in the collapse, how many people will have to die
in the collapse, and what will survive the collapse that I and many
others are fighting for now. That is what every human being [...] Read more »

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Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?

Posted in beyond organic, fascism/corporatism on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »

More by Vandana Shiva, reprinted from Alternet.
This is a problem for all of us. Where 100 years ago many of us would be involved in agriculture and would eat fresh health local foods, corporations have now taken over the worlds food supply. These corporations rely on huge quantities of energy in the form of fossil [...] Read more »

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Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India

Posted in devastation, fascism/corporatism, saving seeds, water on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Vandana Shiva says industrial agriculture has left Indian farmers indebted and destitute, and explains how to stem the tide of suicides.
Last month, the world got a glimpse of an epidemic that has hit India in the last decade when news reports alerted readers to the suicides of 1,500 farmers in the Indian [...] Read more »

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Can Cuba Offer An Alternative to Corporate Control Over the World’s Food System?

Posted in beyond organic, not 'hope', peak oil, sustainability on May 21st, 2009 No Comments »

paper presented at the 20th Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists, Havana, June, 2008
by Joseph Tharamangalam, Centre for Global Justice.
Give us this day our daily bread. (The only prayer Jesus is reported to have taught his followers)
With all the authority of hindsight, it is important to analyze and criticize [...] Read more »

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Waking Up in a Former Empire at the End of the Industrial Age

Posted in collapse, peak oil, sane words on May 14th, 2009 3 Comments »

Or: Is It “Mean” to Tell Someone Their House is on Fire?
You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place. – Gurdjieff
by Suzanne Duarte, at Culture Change.
Dearest Ones of Future Generations,
I thought you might find it interesting to hear what I’m observing of those people [...] Read more »

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