...So think "resistance" with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet. Gather the others: you already know them. The brave, smart, militant, and, most of all, serious, and together take aim. Do it carefully, but do it.
Then fire for all you're worth.
“Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible ― it’s to dismantle those systems.”
Mon, Sep 29 2025
8 Billion Will Die!
By Tom Murphy / Do the Math Whenever I suggest that humans might be better off living in a mode much closer to our original ecological context as small-band immediate-return hunter-gatherers, some heads inevitably explode, inviting a torrent of pushback. I [...]
Mon, Sep 22 2025
Legally Traded Species Become Invasive In US
Editor’s: Trapped in a Tank: The Hidden Cruelty of the Tropical Fish Trade The Exotic Pet Trade Harms Animals and Humans. The European Union Is Studying a Potential Solution By Spoorthy Raman / Mongabay Although a superpower, the U.S. is under constant [...]
Wed, Sep 17 2025
Sabotage Is How To Shut The System
Editor’s note: “Protest alone, disconnected from more substantive action, is akin to screaming in the wind. Protest is not resistance. Protest, whether conscious to it or not, often reinforces the belief that the system is fundamentally sound, [...]
Tue, Sep 09 2025
What Are the Origins of the Money?
Editor’s note: This is a difficult concept to understand. The reason is because we have been taught the opposite all our lives. Taxes don’t fund spending. The spending must be done first so that taxes can be paid. So it is not tax and spend, it [...]
Fri, Aug 29 2025
Deep-Sea Mining Is a False Solution
Editor’s note: “President Donald Trump has been pushing the U.S. to barrel ahead on deep-sea mining. The country plans to permit mining in international waters under an obscure U.S. law from 1980 called the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources [...]
Thu, Aug 21 2025
Local Women Saving Yucatán’s Mangroves
Editor’s note: “Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead. Several Chelemeras look out on the nursery before submerging themselves in the [...]
Thu, Aug 14 2025
Corporate Vision for the Future of Food
Editor’s note: Want to try lab-grown salmon? The US just approved it. Who needs wild salmon. By Colin Todhunter / COUNTERCURRENTS Sainsbury’s is one of the ‘big six’ supermarkets in the UK. In 2019, it released its Future of Food report. It is [...]
Fri, Aug 08 2025
China Is Building the World’s Biggest Dam
Editor’s note: The folly of controlling the rivers. “What will those who come after us think of us? Will they envy us that we saw butterflies and mockingbirds, penguins and little brown bats?” – Derrick Jensen Or will they despise [...]
Mon, Aug 04 2025
Military-Backed Plantation Project In Indonesian Papua
Editor’s note: Indonesia’s capital relocation mirrors the move of the country’s former colonisers By Hans Nicholas Jong / Mongabay JAKARTA — Indonesia’s national human rights commission has found a slew of legal and rights violations in a [...]
Sat, Jul 26 2025
SLAPP Suit Against Thacker Pass 6
This lithium company is trying to sue Indigenous land defenders into silence by Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network May 9, 2025 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4bT1oQv4m9xpi42O9TU5oH?si=d7db06343fce4142 Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is [...]
