Dismantle Civilisation

Here’s a great article by Chris Hedges that reflects much of what we think here, it’s well worth a read:
We stand on the cusp of one of humanity’s most dangerous moments.

Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job [...] Read more »

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By Chris Hedges, reprinted from truthdig.com
Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow [...] Read more »

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This essay, taken from The Earth Blog, argues that humanity, and more specifically our individual selves, are what matters to us most of all and thus anything that threatens our survival is fundamentally bad. It’s a tough argument to make, largely because the values of those of us brought up in the civilized world have [...] Read more »

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The Uk Govt is planning to stop people home educating their children, another ancient right being removed.
Please help us keep our freedom to home educate as we, and our children, see fit.
Please support us in petitioning the Prime Minister of Great Britain to reject the recommendations of the Report to the Secretary of State on [...] Read more »

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by Eva Golinger, at Global Research
President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped

[Note: As of 11:15am, Caracas time, President Zelaya is speaking live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified the soldiers entered his residence in the early morning hours, firing guns and threatening to kill him and his family if he [...] Read more »

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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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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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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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In an attack reminiscent of the scenes at the Royal Bank of Scotland branch in the City of London during the G20 protests, anarchists in Brighton have attacked and smashed the windows of an RBS branch claiming that “With this action we want to increase the rage against the capitalist system”.  This is born of [...] Read more »

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