Dismantle Civilisation

by Chuck Burr, on his blog Culture Quake.
Wealth is a system of concentration
Wealth is not what we are taught. Wealth is a verb, not a noun. Wealth is not stuff; it is a fiercely protected system of concentration. It is the act of the hoarding, and is a pillar of our culture.
The Agricultural Revolution, The [...] Read more »

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Always one to find ways of speeding the demise of industrial civilization, I was really taken by this article in New Scientist about the remarkably destructive effect of roads in the Amazon rainforest. For many years ELF (Earth Liberation Front) has resorted to blocking logging roads as one of a range of methods to slow [...] Read more »

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(NaturalNews) As the anticipated July release date for Baxter’s A/H1N1
flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist
is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of
humanity is underway. Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal
charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the
United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government [...] Read more »

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Here is an interesting article discussing an anticapitalist perspective on climate change, climate camps and the antiglobalisation movement, and how to move against the growing tide of greenwashed capitalism.

There’s a new big story: climate change. Tadzio Müller suggests a way for anticapitalists to deal with the issue’s urgency without falling into catastrophism or quietism.
R.I.P., or: [...] Read more »

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Here’s the Unsuitablog’s response to another farce going on this Saturday – WWF’s ‘Earth Hour‘:
Apparently, on March 28, millions of people will be turning off their lights for an hour, for Earth Hour. Yes, a whole hour when all sorts of really green places, like Las Vegas, New York and San Francisco, will be flicking [...] Read more »

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Peakmoment video.

In his book, The Long Descent, John Michael Greer observes that our culture has two primary stories: “Infinite Progress” or “Catastrophe”. On the contrary, he sees history as cyclic: civilizations rise and fall. Like others, ours is exhausting its resource base. Cheap energy is over. Decline is here, but the descent will be a [...] Read more »

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A Club Orlov post, by Dmitry Orlov.
Congratulations, everyone, we have a new president: a fresh new face, a capable, optimistic, inspiring figure, ushering in a new era of responsibility, ready to confront the many serious challenges that face the nation; in short, we have us a Gorbachev. I don’t know about you, but I find [...] Read more »

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Parts 1and 2 of capitalism at the expense of all life  are posted on dismantle civilization here.
 
by Juan Santos
 
This is the Day of Reckoning. This is the Time of Purification. This is the end of the “world”, the end of the city-state, the end of city life, of “Civilization.” The early Christians called [...] Read more »

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Christmas time has come again, and as per usual the yearly carnival of consumerism has returned. It was suggested that the credit crunch might have perhaps thrown some water on the consumerist fire this year, but judging from the increase in spending reported for last month, and indeed my own observations of an incredibly [...] Read more »

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A recent series of Channel 4 comedy documentaries called ‘Silly Money’ by Bremner, Bird and Fortune has explored the ongoing economic crisis, but goes deeper than most of the media in revealing some of its true roots – all whilst still being very funny and good watching!  Check it out here. Read more »

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