“At the start of the Common Era, 3/4 of all people on Earth lived under Empire.” Or did they? .. my new essay Aeon Magazine challenges some zombie statistics, and considers a new human past emerging from the ground. aeon.co/essays/an-arch…

“..Food is not a commodity. It is the base of life, so it should not be included in the WTO system or in any free trade agreement because it's not a car, it's not a computer. It's something we need to live,” says Jean. Conf' Paysanne European Coordination Via Campesina euronews.com/green/2024/07/…

“a true revolution is not the triumph of a unified perspective, it is the flourishing of an uncontrolled, mutually balancing ecosystem.” PeterGelderloos

Currently waiting for an apology from all the neoliberals who claimed that our current economy is compatible with net zero because it is naturally "dematerializing" due to the tech revolution...

The world is so complex & the balance of life so fragile that we don’t even know much of the damage we’re doing to the web of life. We’re fools to think we can rip up this wondrous web & hold together our modern civilization with the plastic-metallic stitches of our technology.

The ONLY thing that has ever reduced emissions have been recessions or crises that cause temporary crashes in the economy. The ONLY way out of this apocalypse is to destroy the capitalist economy completely and rebuild our collective survival based on mutual aid.

"Capitalism is a situation where people can systematically turn their wealth into power by control of productive resources. So if u control the means of production &other people don't own anything but their own labor, they're essentially forced to sell/rent themselves as slaves"

I really like this visual analysis on the differences between #organic #regenerative and #agroecology tabledebates.org/publication/re…

Let me repeat. If you must keep murdering more and more people in order to survive, & use a (temporary) superpower to prop up fragile regimes around you for the illusion of peace, you are, simply, not sustainable. There are 37 abandoned Crusader fortresses in the Levant.

Lapsed academic frontliner begging y’all to swarm into prefigurative politics, agroecology & permaculture. Community land trusts and cooperatives. Library socialism. Slow down, collaborate, create, salvage, touch grass, cultivate soil and grow food! Let’s go!

Jason Hickel: Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism youtu.be/6dBy4-6pn1M?si… via YouTube

I think we should reverse the hands? IsraHell is nothing but a colonial tool for the US and its interests in the Middle East.

While MSM ignores the fact that Kurds have already set up a multi-ethnic true democracy in the northern third of Syria (now imperiled by Turkey's Erdogan) Matt Broomfield has written a must-read explainer. Read it & support Rojava at this critical time. shorturl.at/ae9QA

It starts with a promise: to overthrow tyranny, dismantle an oppressive regime, and return power to the people. Sounds familiar? Enter Jolani, aka Ahmed al-Sharaa, a real life Napoleon from Orwell’s Animal Farm. Thread🧵

Pity Musk’s sci-fi fantasies weren’t founded on Le Guin…

“Surely they’ve only as much power as we give them” Claire Keegan

It's not that the Republicans and the Democrats are the same...obviously. But for decades - since Clinton - the Dems have sided with neoliberal economics, just like their Republican counterparts. 1/