* In These Times: The Philanthropy Racket or: How The People Destroying the World Anoint Themselves Its Saviors; Jacobin: The Philanthropy Racket. The Philanthropy Racket Philanthropy is how the global elite…
* Wrong Kind of Green: U2’s Bono and the CIA: The Dangers of Celebrity Activists. U2’s Bono and the CIA: The Dangers of Celebrity Activists Thomas C Mountain, American Herald Tribune,…
* The Hindu: ‘Billion Tree Tsunami’ transforms arid Pakistan region into green gold. ‘Billion Tree Tsunami’ transforms arid Pakistan region into green gold 26 June 2018, The Hindu . 300…
* The Mob Museum: The Gangsters at the Heart of Russia’s Story. The Gangsters at the Heart of Russia’s Story Expert Explains Organized Crime’s origins and place in Former Soviet…
* Seans Russia Blog: Early Soviet Urban Communes. Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931, by Andy Willimott Sean’s Russia Blog | 30 April 2018 . Podcast: Download….
* The Guardian: The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia review – a kleptocracy in the making. The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia review – a kleptocracy in the making Mark Galeotti’s timely…
* The Guardian: Gangster’s paradise: how organized crime took over Russia. Gangster’s paradise: how organised crime took over Russia Under Vladmir Putin, gangsterism on the streets has given way to…
Vox: There’s a war for your attention. And you’re probably losing it. There’s a war for your attention. And you’re probably losing it. “You’re always being pulled away, and it’s getting…
* Commanders for Israel Security: Some of Israel’s Top Fighters Now Push for Peace; via Bloomberg: Some of Israel’s Top Fighters Now Push for Peace. Some of Israel’s Top Fighters…
* Our Finite World: Our Finite World: The Depression of the 1930s Was an Energy Crises. Our Finite World: The Depression of the 1930s Was a UK Peak Coal Energy Crises…
* Aeon: Dag Herbjørnsrud : The African Enlightenment: Yacob & Amo: Africa’s Precursers to Locke Hume & Kant. The African Enlightenment The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first…
* Quillette: The Problems of “Privilege”: Lessons from the French Revolution. The Problems of “Privilege”: Lessons from the French Revolution Blake Smith | Quillette | 08 Nov 2017 . In recent…
Insurge Intel: Documents reveal Middle East regimes fear food, water, energy shortages, via AlterNet. OIC: Science & Technology in the OIC Countries: Goals, Priorities, and Actions 2016-25: Science and the Ummah: Nurturing…
* New Yorker Magazine: The Case Against Civilization. The Way We Lived | September 18, 2017 Issue The Case Against Civilization Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better? A life of hunting and…
* New Republic: Florida’s Poop Nightmare Has Come True. Florida’s Poop Nightmare Has Come True Hurricane Irma caused massive sewage overflows, highlighting the twin dangers of an aging infrastructure and climate…
* Washington Post: Bushmen who have little have much to teach us about living well. Bushmen who have little have much to teach us about living well By Rachel Newcomb | August 25…
* MAHB: Jason Brent: When And How Will Growth Cease? When And How Will Growth Cease? Jason Brent | MAHB | 15 Aug 2017 . Only with knowledge will humanity…
* IUCN – Bonn Challenge: Pakistan’s Billion Tree Tsunami restores 350,000 hectares of forests and degraded land to surpass Bonn Challenge commitment, via IUCN. Pakistan’s Billion Tree Tsunami restores 350,000…
* The Atlantic: When a 200,000-Year-Old Culture Encountered the Modern Economy. When a 200,000-Year-Old Culture Encountered the Modern Economy The Ju/’hoansi, of Namibia, lived the same way millennium after millennium….
Ravens are so smart it’s actually kind of disconcerting, new study finds Popular Science | 14 July 2017 | Sara Chodosh . Unlike so many of us, they actually plan…
* Reviews in History: Andy Willimott: Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism 1917-32. Living the Revolution: Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism 1917-1932, by Andy Willimott Review by Dr…
* New Yorker Magazine: The Uninhabitable Earth. The Uninhabitable Earth Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. By David…
* Jordan Peterson: Postmodern NeoMarxism: Diagnosis and Cure. Postmodern NeoMarxism: Diagnosis and Cure Jordan Peterson, 09 July 2017 . Jordan Peterson: Postmodern NeoMarxism: Diagnosis and Cure (33:19) . So…
The Guardian: The Paris climate deal won’t save us – our future depends on de-growth. The Paris climate deal won’t save us – our future depends on de-growth Jason Hickle |…
SQSwans: Day Brown: Proto-Indo-European ‘Natural Liberty’ has dozens of recipes for herbal abortion & birth control that work. Makes evolutionary sense. Plants that use poison to deter browsing grow slow…
