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War on terrorism
| The
threat of mass destruction and the continuing arms race | Fascism in America
Progress and its critics
Science in a free society: open up to criticism
Rationalization: our guiding principle has gone
astray "Modernity is
the 'disenchantment of the world' through the powerful agencies
of science and capitalism."
Addicted to technology More things do not make people happier
Technology and its social side-effects
Can we - should we - compensate our loss of
community with virtual community?
"Progress celebrates
victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin.
When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead
better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What
good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the
heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are
necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can
rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has
perpetrated on it." - Karl Kraus
Debt boomerang of the Third World:
deforestation, drugs, aids, refugees, and global conflict
Crisis of capitalism: the counterproductive end of economic growth
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of
the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey
Crisis of capitalism: corporations rule the world
- David Korten (Multinational Monitor) - Interview
on When Corporations Rule the World
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David Korten (Tikkun) - Globalization, myth and
reality (from When Corporations Rule the World)
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Jerry Mander (Resurgence) - Corporate
colonialism (from The Case Against the Global Economy)
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Ralph Nader - Introduction to Russell Mokhiber's
& Robert Weissman's Corporate Predators
- Julie Light (CorpWatch) - Repression Inc:
corporate assault on human rights
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David Edwards (Resurgence) - Corporate threat
(Noam Chomsky)
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Donella Meadows (Global Citizen) - Corporate
expansion and environment: why let means prevail over
ends?
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David Korten (Yes!) - The WTO is
anti-democratic, anti-people, and anti-environment | More
- Robert Jensen (Austin American-Statesman) - WTO
protests: corporate power is the central issue
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Peter Montague & Jim Puckett (Rachel's EHW)
- The WTO and free trade: corporations in control
- Ralph Nader & Lori Wallach - Globalization
and WTO primer: corporate rules replace democracy
- Tony Clarke - Mechanisms of corporate rule
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Norman Solomon
(Media Beat) - People's globalization against corporate globalization
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Noreena Hertz (Observer) - Governments surrender
to corporations, only protest can revitalize democracy
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Kevin Danaher (Observer) - Power to the people:
protest movement demands a say in the future of the
planet
- Wolfgang Sachs
(Yes!) - International Forum on Globalization's Alternatives to Economic
Globalization
- Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
(AlterNet) - Citizen showdown against corporate
globalization
- Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman (Focus on
the Corporation) - The corporate crime explosion
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Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman (Focus on
the Corporation) - How multinationals escape taxes
- Washington Post - Campaign finance: money
determines who runs, who wins, and how they govern
- Ellen Miller (Multinational Monitor) - Follow
the money: political fundraising means buying influence
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Gore Vidal (TomPaine.com) - A corrupt system:
the people who own the country shouldn't run it
- Norman Solomon (Media Beat) - The silent
majority |
Time Magazine - Big money and politics
- Center for Public
Integrity - The Buying of the President 2004 |
Joan Claybrook (Public Citizen) - Enron payback |
Kevin Phillips (Los Angeles Times) - The company presidency |
Gregory Palast (Guerrilla News) - Bush's coup d'état and his
Bin Laden connection (interview) |
Robert Kennedy (Rolling Stone) - Was the 2004 election stolen? |
Gregory Palast & Mark Karlin (BuzzFlash) - How the 2008 election has already
been stolen |
Michael Moore - Open letter to George W. Bush (from Stupid
White Men) |
Jim Hightower - From
Thieves in High Places
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Bill Moyers & Amanda Griscom (Grist) - Bush-brand
environmental destruction |
Robert Kennedy (Rolling Stone)
- Crimes against nature |
Corporate America flag
- Jane Anne Morris (Synthesis/Regeneration) -
America needs a law prohibiting corporate donations
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Alan Dershowitz (Muckraker) - Justice for sale:
countervailing powers in corporate control | More
- George Monbiot (The Guardian) - It's business that really rules us now
- Ralph Nader - From corporate government to
citizen government
- Bernie Sanders - From The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America
- David Kubiak (Maine Sunday Telegram) - Wresting away corporate might
- David Kubiak (Adbusters) - Big Bodies, Big
Medicine
- John le Carré (The Nation) - Big Pharma
replaces nations: profit ahead of lives
- Jon Katz (Free!) - Corporate assault on privacy
through neo-Orwellian technology
- George Monbiot (Guardian) - Human rights protect
corporations instead of people
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Ward Morehouse & Richard Grossman (Humanscape) - The rights of capital above
the rights of humans
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Marjorie Kelly (Earth Island) - Shareholder
kingdoms: we have yet to democratize corporate society
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Marjorie Kelly & Robert Hinkley (Hope) - Toppling the corporate aristocracy
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Richard Grossman - Will of the people? Consent
of the governed? Rule of law?
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Richard Grossman & David Barsamian (Z
Magazine) - Challenging corporate power
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Richard Grossman (By What Authority) - After
Seattle: the WTO, the US constitution, and
self-government
- Richard Grossman & Frank Adams
- Taking Care of Business: Citizenship
and the Charter of Incorporation
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POCLAD (By What
Authority) - Challenging Empire's story after September 11
- Richard
Grossman & Ward Morehouse - When corporations wield the constitution
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George Draffan - The
Corporate Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution
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Jan Edwards (Multinational Monitor) - Challenging corporate personhood
(interview) |
Cartoon
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Jan
Edwards & Molly Morgan - Abolish corporate personhood (with timeline;
pdf)
- Paul Kennedy (LA Times Book Review) - Kevin Phillips' Wealth and
Democracy
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Kevin Phillips & David Barsamian (The Progressive) - On Wealth and
Democracy |
Excerpt
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Ted Nace -
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
(pdf)
- Jeffrey Clements (Yes!) - Corporate takeover of government through the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision: "corporations are persons" and "money is speech"
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Thom Hartmann - The
Boston Tea Party: America's first anti-globalization protest |
Unequal
Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
- David Morris - Capital punishment for
corporations?
- Russell Mokhiber (Business Ethics) - Death
penalty for corporations: revoke the charter of corporate
lawbreakers
- Jonathan Rowe (Washington Monthly) - Is the
corporation obsolete? A cancer without global
counterbalance
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Jonathan Rowe (Washington Monthly) - David Bollier's Silent Theft: The
Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
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David Bollier - Introduction
to Silent Theft |
Rediscovery of the
commons |
Privatization of public knowledge |
Commercializing of
consciousness
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David Bollier (In These Times) - Who owns the sky?
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Jonathan Rowe (Yes!) - The demand for the common good
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Jonathan Rowe
(Yes!) - How commerce consumed the commons
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Friends
of the Commons - The State of the Commons (pdf)
- Vijay Prashad
(CounterPunch) - The Enron stage of capitalism
- Rebecca Solnit (Orion) - Corporations have domesticated us
- George Monbiot (BBC) - Destructive
globalization: do we let corporations control our economy
and politics?
- Jerry Mander - Globalization versus
localization: corporate megatechnology destroys
communities and ecology
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Jerry
Mander, Vandana Shiva & Amy Goodman - Impact of globalization on cultural
diversity and cultural freedom
- Paul Hawken, David Korten & Sarah van Gelder
(Yes!) - Can corporations contribute to positive change
in the world?
- David Korten (Yes!) - From The
Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
- David Korten (Synthesis/Regeneration) - Money or
life: a planetary alternative to the global economy
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David Korten (Lapis) - Midwifing the new consciousness: toward the creation
of just and sustainable societies
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David Korten - A citizen agenda to tame corporate power, reclaim citizen
sovereignty, and restore economic sanity
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International Forum
on Globalization - Ten principles for sustainable societies (from
Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible)
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Naomi Klein -
From Fences and Windows
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Paul Watson & John
Schumaker (New Internationalist) - Earth warrior
Sustainable development Environmental destruction is an act of
unparalleled criminality
Environmental degradation and overpopulation
Deforestation, extinction, and climate change
join in downward spiral
Save the oceans
Poverty, illness, war, exclusion - children are
always the first victims
Corruption obstructs Third World development
Coping with conflict: from violence to
tolerance
Individualism and the loss of community
Reconcile individual liberty with
responsibility toward the community
Media terror: the truth is squeezed between
advertising money and public relations Freedom of speech only if it is
profitable
- Serge Halimi (Le Monde Diplomatique) - Can
independent journalism withstand the market?
- Steve Hoenisch (Critical Mass) - James Squires' Read
All About It: Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers
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Neil Hickey (Columbia Journalism Review) - How
pressure for profit is perverting journalism
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Norman
Solomon (Nieman Reports) - Money makes headlines in today's news coverage
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Peter
Goldmark - Harnessing the legacy of independent journalism for a sustainable
future
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Jay Harris (ASNE) - Profit over journalism: why
I resigned as publisher of the Mercury News
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Jay Rosen - From Getting the Connections
Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press
- Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman (Focus on
the Corporation) - A renowned scientific journal |
More
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Danny Schechter - Journalists of the world unite
- Danny Schechter (Boston Review) - Making sense
of media
- Danny Schechter - The many fronts of the media
war (from The More You Watch, The Less You Know)
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Norman Solomon - The politics of news media
(from False Hope)
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George Seldes - Is the entire press corrupt?
(from The Facts Are...)
| More
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Geneva Overholser - The public-press pact to
know nothing and debate nothing
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John Pilger - The hidden power of the media, or
why truth is always subversive
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Noam Chomsky (Z Magazine) - The media: how the
power structure controls people's minds
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Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian (Alternative
Radio) - The propaganda system (transcript)
- John Stauber & Derrick Jensen (The Sun) -
War on truth: the secret battle for the American mind
- Stuart Ewen & Richard Swift (New
Internationalist) - How corporate PR came to dominate
public debate
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Johan Carlisle (Covert Action Quarterly) - The
PR industry as the fourth branch of government (Hill
& Knowlton)
- John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton - How PR
sold the Gulf War
- Don Fitz (Synthesis/Regeneration) - John
Stauber's & Sheldon Rampton's Toxic Sludge Is
Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations
Industry |
Excerpt
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Mark Dowie - "Torches of liberty"
campaign: smoking as liberation (introduction to Toxic
Sludge Is Good for You!)
- Sharon Beder (Public Relations Quarterly) - PR's
role in manufacturing artificial grassroots coalitions
(from Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on
Environmentalism) Spin: systematic
molding of public opinion
- Sheldon Rampton (PR Watch) - Sharon Beder's Global
Spin |
More
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Sharon Beder (School Science Review) - The
corporate infiltration of science education
- Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber (PR Watch) -
Keeping America safe from democracy
- Stuart Ewen - Visiting Edward Bernays (from PR!
A Social History of Spin)
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Stuart Ewen & Carrie McLaren (Stay Free!) -
On PR! A Social History of Spin
- Stuart Ewen & Mark Dery (Salon) - The hidden
persuaders
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Michael Parenti - Methods of media manipulation | More
- Wendy
Priesnitz (Natural Life) - Media madness: spinning the
news
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Matt
Wuerker - "Freedom of speech is the great equalizer", blast corporate media
(cartoon)
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Robert McChesney (Z Magazine) - Springtime for
Goebbels: free speech is for the media conglomerates
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Edward Herman, Robert McChesney & David
Peterson (Z Magazine) - The anti-democratic global media
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Jane Wardlow Prettyman (American Reporter) - Ben
Bagdikian's The Media Monopoly and Project
Censored
- Ben Bagdikian - Introduction to The Media
Monopoly | Democracy and the media
| Afterword
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William Pfaff (International Herald Tribune) -
Money and media in America have a stranglehold on
democracy
- Robert Jensen (Texas Observer) - Journalism and
scholarship: corporations subvert free speech and
democracy
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Beth Schulman - Independent media give voice to
the silenced, speak truth to power, revitalize public
debate
- Commission on Freedom of the Press (Hutchins Commission) - A Free and Responsible Press
- Jeffrey Scheuer - Foreword to Arthur Hayes, Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate: Media Watchdogs in America
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Kalle Lasn - Media Carta: how the media deny us
our freedom of speech, and how to get it back
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Kalle Lasn & David Edwards (Humanscape) - How to shake up the cult members
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Peter Phillips
(Project Censored) - Rebuild democracy with grassroots community news
- Palagummi Sainath - Is there room for poverty in
the media? |
Media bias
- Noam Chomsky & Palagummi Sainath
(Humanscape) - Globalization of the media
- Media ownership chart Media Channel (html) |
Promo (pdf) |
The Nation (flash) | PBS (html) | Mother Jones (pdf) | Free Press (html) | Vox (html) | Evan Shapiro (png)
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Mark Crispin Miller (The Nation) - Free the
media | More
- Robert McChesney (Boston Review) - Making media
democratic
- Robert McChesney (Current) - Why public
broadcasting? |
More
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Robert McChesney - Global media ownership and control (from Rich Media,
Poor Democracy)
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Robert McChesney - Corporate concentration: a
threat to the right to communicate?
- Robert McChesney (Corporate Watch) - Free speech
on the corporate Internet: the war for a democratic media
system
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Robert McChesney (openDemocracy) - Anti-democratic media |
US press coverage of the war on terrorism, the Enron scandal, and the 2000
election
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Norman Solomon - War, social justice, and anti-democratic media
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Orville Schell -
Bush at war: why the press failed |
Backgrounder
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Alice Cherbonnier (Baltimore Chronicle) - Robert
McChesney's Rich Media, Poor Democracy
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Robert McChesney (American Prospect) - Waging the media battle
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Al
Gore - The corporate destruction of the marketplace of ideas
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Ted Turner (Washington Post) - Monopoly or democracy?
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John Nichols & Robert
McChesney (TomPaine.com) - Media monopoly versus democracy
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Bill Moyers
(Common Dreams) - Media reform: save freedom of the press to save democracy
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Alexander Stille
(New York Review of Books) - Berlusconi: media magnate as political ruler
- Serge Halimi (Le Monde
Diplomatique) - United States: an unfree press
- Ignacio Ramonet (Le
Monde Diplomatique) - Set the media free
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Nancy Kranich (Free Expression Policy Project) - The Information Commons
- Jeffrey Scheuer (Dissent) - Television is
conservative: simple messages and no critical debate
- George Gerbner (In Context) - The alienating
culture of television as a surrogate for community |
More
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George Gerbner & Derrick Jensen (The Sun) -
Telling stories: how television distorts our world view
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George Gerbner & Michael Toms (New
Dimensions) - Television's monopolization of cultural
life
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George Gerbner - Marketing our world view:
television violence leads to a mean world syndrome
- David
Grossman (Christianity Today) - Media violence: conditioning our children to
commit murder
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Robert Putnam (American Prospect) - Television
as the prime suspect of civic decline
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Donella Meadows (Global Citizen) - How did we
ever let TV corrupt our children?
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Jerry Mander (Lapis) - The tyranny of television
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Jerry Mander (IFG) -
Global corporate media as monoculture
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Duane Elgin - Television's last taboo: its earth
threatening bias toward consumerism
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Duane Elgin - Awakening the mass media to build
a sustainable future
- Ralph Nader (In the Public Interest) - Corporate
cynicism is the real culprit
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Douglas Rushkoff - The arms race of coercion
(from Coercion: Why We Listen to What
"They" Say)
- Douglas Rushkoff & John Brockman (Edge) -
Everything is media: contemplating the "Just do
it!" culture
- Douglas Rushkoff - How the images created by the advertising industry overtook reality, as part of the manipulation by corporate capitalism to promote its values and products to America (afterword to Daniel Boorstin, The Image) | Daniel Boorstin - From news gathering to news making: a flood of pseudo-events (excerpt from The Image)
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Benjamin Barber (New Perspectives Quarterly) -
The making of McWorld (interview)
Media terror: advertising consumerism
Advertise tobacco and fight a war on drugs? Smoking the number 1 killer in developed
countries
Hormone disruptors: many chemicals endanger
reproduction and development
Sustainable agriculture
Animal misuse "The fundamental wrong is the system that allows us
to view animals as our resources, here for us."
- Tom Regan
Sanctions against Iraq: more than a million
children died already "Economic
sanctions may have contributed to more deaths during the
post-Cold War era than all the weapons of mass destruction
throughout history." - John & Karl Mueller in Foreign
Affairs
Balkan crisis New world order at a crossroads
Russia: what next?
Japan's paralyzed bureaucratic system breeds
economic crisis and resurgent nationalism
India: is it progress when the people and the environment are
victimized?
China's rapid economic growth causes
environmental crisis
Human rights in China Since the one-child policy of 1979, more
than 25 million girls are missing as a result of sex-selective
abortion, infanticide and neglect.
China tries to change the world in its image
From genetic engineering to eugenics: many
small rights make a big wrong
Medical science: losing the battle against
nature?
Scientists started aids epidemic Fifteen year cover-up put scientific
integrity and public trust in science at stake
Medicine as an expensive technical fix, at the
cost of prevention and basic health care
Conscious and intelligent machines "Saying Deep Blue doesn't really
think about chess is like saying an airplane doesn't really fly
because it doesn't flap its wings." - Drew McDermott
Technology out of control
Madness and creativity - alienation and modern
culture
World economy, world anarchy, world policeman,
world government
"Shall we go on conferring our civilization upon the peoples
that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a
rest?" - Mark Twain
Human rights at heart
Against totalitarianism "The essence of totalitarian
government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to
make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery
out of men, and thus to dehumanize them." - Hannah Arendt
Criticism must keep democracy alive "He alone is worthy of life and
freedom, who each day fights for them anew." - Goethe's Faust
Emancipation as the root of progress
Achieving goodness in a complex world "Each time a man stands up for an
ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out
against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing each other from a million different centers of energy
and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the
mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert
Kennedy
- Rupi Kaur - I want to apologize to all the women I have called pretty
- Michael Kimmel (The Cut) - Raise your son to be a good man, not a "real" man
- Scott
London - The moral, political, and spiritual
sensibilities of children (on Robert Coles)
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Rushworth Kidder (Institute for Global Ethics) -
From How Good People Make Tough Choices
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Donella Meadows (Resurgence) - How to save the
world? Slow down, live, and look at the whole
- Maya Angelou & Linda Wolf (In Context) -
Laugh and dare to love, it is up to each of us to make it
better
- Laura Schlessinger - From How Could You Do
That?! The Abdication of Character, Courage, and
Conscience
- Glenn Loury (Boston Review) - Moral community in
a dysfunctional society
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Robin Casarjian & Patrick Miller - Can
prisons become houses of healing?
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Robert Young - The search for transcendent
values
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Michael Obsatz (Phoenix) - A calling in life
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Max Weber - Politics as a vocation |
Science as a vocation
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Alan Wolfe (Wilson Quarterly) - On loyalty
- Emma Goldman - Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of
the People | Ghosts
- Sophocles - Antigone (a Greek tragedy
on conscience versus the state)
- Thucydides - Pericles' funeral oration from The
Peloponnesian War
- Aristotle - Ethics |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
- Plato - Phaedo (Socrates on the life of
the true philosopher) |
Apology |
Crito
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Martha Nussbaum (Brown Classical Journal) -
Philosophy committed to the good of human beings
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Richard Heinberg (MuseLetter) - In search of the
historical Jesus: prophet of social justice and voluntary
simplicity
- Leonardo & Clodovis Boff - How to be
Christians in a world of destitution (from Introducing
Liberation Theology)
- Leonardo & Clodovis Boff - A concise history
of liberation theology (from Introducing Liberation
Theology)
- Pope John Paul II - Encyclical Veritatis
Splendor (on the morality of Jesus' Sermon on the
Mount) | Matthew 5-7
- Karen Armstrong (Guardian) - We need a modern way to recreate religion's
respect for the earth
- Tom Hayden - From The Lost Gospel of the
Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics
- Michael Lerner - From The Politics of
Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of
Cynicism | More
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Michael Lerner & Doug Collins (Washington
Free Press) - Spirituality: a new bottom line of love and
caring
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Riane Eisler (Tikkun) - Spiritual courage
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Roger Gottlieb (Tikkun) - From A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a
Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth
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Eduardo Galeano & David Barsamian (The
Progressive) - Interview with the author of Open
Veins of Latin America
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Eduardo Galeano (New Internationalist) -
Betrayal and promise: popular resistance and the hope of
a better world
- Eduardo Galeano - The
right to dream: a poem for a better world (from Upside Down)
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Oscar Arias - Making a difference after September 11: the struggle for peace
and justice
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Walter Capps (Cross Currents) - Václav Havel:
struggle, spirituality, responsibility
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Václav Havel - A radical renewal of our sense
of responsibility
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Václav Havel - A return of hope for mankind
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Robert Kennedy - A tiny ripple of hope
- Andrei Sakharov - From exile: goodness will
finally triumph
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William Kristol (Weekly Standard) - George Weigel's Witness to Hope: The
Biography of Pope John Paul II
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu & John Carlin (PBS
Frontline) - Nelson Mandela | The long walk (transcript)
- Susie Linfield (Boston Review) - Trading truth
for justice? South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission
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Garry Wills (Outrider) - Mahatma Gandhi as person of the century: the power
of spiritual example
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Bill McKibben (Mother
Jones) - Materialism and
Mahatma Gandhi's spirit: "Renounce and enjoy!"
- Nelson Mandela (Time Magazine) - Mahatma Gandhi,
the sacred warrior
- Mark Shepard - Mahatma Gandhi and his myths
- Mahatma Gandhi - Quit India
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Kenneth Roth - Hope for human rights
- Steven Pinker - From The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- George Monbiot (Guardian) - Nonviolent heroes:
facing down ethnic cleansing and nuclear criminality
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Joan Norman &
Ellen O'Shea (Z Magazine) - The good fight: resisting injustice with fire in
our bellies
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Paul Watson - From Ocean Warrior: My Battle
to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas |
More
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Paul Watson (Ocean Realm) - Change only comes
through the actions of committed individuals
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Albert Camus - Writing in an age of insanity:
for truth, liberty and optimism (Nobel lecture)
- Steven Kreis - The existentialist frame of mind:
creating your own values
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Donna Britt (National Geographic) - Could I be
as brave? (to tell my truth)
- Peter Singer - Living ethically / the good life
(from How Are We To Live?)
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William Faulkner - On being human against the
current (Nobel lecture)
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David Shi (Lapis) - The simple life: plain living and high thinking
- Henry David Thoreau - Walden, or Life in the
Woods | Full text
- Rebecca Solnit (Orion) - Thoreau's road as a free roaming rebel
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Jean Giono - Forest regeneration: the man who
planted trees
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World Land
Trust - Adopting rainforest in the Andes of Ecuador
|
More
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Alastair McIntosh (Resurgence) - Eigg: colonized land, colonized mind (from
Soil and Soul)
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Jonathan
Dawson (Resurgence) - The ecovillage movement as a model for sustainable
living
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Barry Lopez & Kenneth Margolis (Orion) -
Paying attention: landscape, community, responsibility
- Kathleen Moore & Derrick Jensen (The Sun) -
Alienation: let us heal our roots in community and land
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Duane Elgin - From Voluntary Simplicity:
Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly
Rich
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Duane Elgin & Sarah van Gelder (Yes!) -
Pioneers of an awakening culture (on Voluntary
Simplicity)
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Amitai Etzioni - A grand dialogue about our
goals: toward a new counterculture of voluntary
simplicity and spirituality (from Next: The Road to
the Good Society)
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Wendell Berry - Think little: a rooted mentality
for a unified protest movement |
More
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Todd Gitlin - C. Wright Mills, intellectual rebel against the American
century
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Donella Meadows (Whole Earth) - Visions: how to
foretell the future, and how to change it |
More
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Patrick Reinsborough - Decolonizing the revolutionary imagination (from
Globalize Liberation) |
More
- Fran Peavey - Strategic questioning (from By
Life's Grace: Musings on the Essence of Social Change)
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Paul Loeb (Utne Reader) - From Soul of a
Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time
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Roger Schank (Educational Outrage) - Learning to
deal with the important questions in your life?
- Langdon Winner - The handwriting on the wall:
resisting technoglobalism's assault on education
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Tom Heaney (Thresholds in Education) - Paulo
Freire's critique of education (on Pedagogy of the
Oppressed)
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Rachael Kessler & Parker Palmer - Education
with meaning and purpose (from The Soul of Education)
- Benjamin Barber & Scott London - The
politics of education: on citizenship and democracy
- David Orr (In Context) - What is education for?
Smart means but mad ends?
- David Orr - Environmental literacy: education as
if the earth mattered
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David Orr
(Resurgence) - We need new strategies to protect the earth
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Alliance for Childhood - Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology
(pdf)
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Joanna
Macy - The shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining
civilization
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Joanna Macy (Yes!)
- The Great Turning: living at a moment of global crisis and possibility
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David Korten (Feasta) - Crisis of modernity:
toward an ecological and spiritual world view
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David Bosworth (The Public Interest) - Restoring
virtue to the alienated spirit of capitalism
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Frances Moore Lappé & Derrick Jensen (The
Sun) - A living democracy: just stop believing in
corporate rule
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Rachel Carson - From The Sense of Wonder
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Howard
Zinn - The optimism of uncertainty
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Mary-Wynne Ashford
- Staying the course
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Paul Loeb - From
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Hope in a Time of Fear
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David Orr -
American politics and the environment: reasons for hope (from The Last
Refuge)
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Derrick
Jensen (Orion) - Environmental action beyond hope (from Endgame)
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Howard Zinn &
David Barsamian (Z Magazine) - A better world is possible
War on terrorism | The threat of mass destruction and the
continuing arms race | Fascism in America
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