For those who don’t think this is serious, or that some of us would just like to have a legal joint now and again… you are half wrong. Prison, the attendant ruination of lives, and billions of dollars spent harrassing harmless pot smokers is very serious. And it would be nice to have […]

[Thanks to T Millions who wrote to us asking for more commentary on vermicomposting, particularly as applied to humanure and local “health security”]
It might be the ultimate kapu. After all, everything from child molestation to necrophilia to bestiality to gang rape is now routine fare in online porn, and anyone who’s genuinely upset by […]

No way to stay out of this one, so I’m linking a piece by Illinois resident, political scientist, and writer Adolph Reed. Wright, of course, is being subjected to a one-sided vilification-fest by the media. They hate uppity Negroes; they hate anyone who is tainted by a whiff of Black nationalism; and they […]

By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF
In recent days, we have seen the rising price of oil and the devaluation of the dollar create two quantum shifts in the economy: the beginning of the collapse of the air travel industry and a global crisis of food-price inflation. These are related in ways that are crucial to […]

The following linked Doug Nowland article from AT points to statistics and trends that we have remarked upon more than once hereabouts.
This dismal accounting from the most dismal of “sciences” is not guaranteed to get your dopamine levels up through first impressons. Econo-talk is a deadly bore — designedly so to ensure that it […]

I was impressed by your insight that the motivation of U.S. volunteers overseas springs mostly from very alienated feelings and concepts. I was equally impressed, by what I interpret as a step forward among would-be volunteers like you: openness to the idea that the only thing you can legitimately volunteer for in Latin America might […]

A Time for Jubilee (by Elizabeth Palmberg)
The subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. has raised just outrage at the behavior of predatory lenders. It’s wrong to push a mortgage which the lender knows the borrower won’t be able to pay back, driving homeowners into foreclosure and bankruptcy.
But when poor nations have unpayable debt—often the result […]

Stan- you have a lot of interesting thoughts but I still can not hear the response to some of the questions I raised about the difference between community work and movement-making, and the false polarity of bureaucratic model centralized politics and community-making as the only alternatives (it seems you assume) of political change (clarify if […]

…and some pictures.

This video teases us… in a very good way.