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Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy | David Graeber | Comment is free | guardian.c... - 0 views
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The US imagines itself a great democracy, yet most Americans despise its politics. Which is why direct democracy inspires them
Want to cut big government abuses? Start with defence contracting | Michael Shank | Com... - 0 views
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We have the evidence: the hardpressed US taxpayer is being fleeced by profiteering contractors and corrupt military personnel
Massive protest at White House against Alberta tar sands pipeline | Environment | guard... - 0 views
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A protest at the White House against a pipeline from the Alberta tar sands is emerging as the biggest green civil disobedience campaign in a generation, organisers said.
What does it mean to be an 'anarchist'? | David Goodway | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Too often associated with mayhem on the streets, for centuries anarchists have actually sought a more ordered society
Water use in China and the Middle East is an environmental Ponzi scheme | Damian Carrin... - 0 views
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Earth's water-stressed nations are borrowing against the future, as rising populations use stocks faster than they are replaced
The criminal folly of criminalising bath salts | Colin Kalmbacher | Comment is free | g... - 0 views
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The 'legal high' of bath salts, or mephedrone, is the new target of drug prohibitionists. Because that worked so well before
A manifesto for regime change on behalf of all humanity | Ana Sofia Suarez and Shimri Z... - 0 views
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Inspired by protests from Tunis to New York, activists and people's assemblies have collaborated on a vision for a new global governance
Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists | Society | The Obse... - 0 views
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Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank
Red plenty: lessons from the Soviet dream | Books | The Guardian - 0 views
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"It started with the launch of Sputnik and ended with the Cuban missile crisis, but for a moment - so brief it has almost been forgotten - it looked as if the Russian dream of unrivalled prosperity would be realised. Francis Spufford on the lessons to be learned from the Soviet experiment"
World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment ... - 0 views
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Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment
The price of environmental destruction? There is none | Andrew Simms | Environment | Th... - 0 views
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A new UN report estimates that accounting for the environmental damage of the world's 3,000 biggest companies would wipe out one-third of their profits. Any precise figure, however, is a matter of how risk is quantified and of where you draw the line. In 2006, for example, the New Economics Foundation (NEF), of which I am the policy director, looked at the oil companies BP and Shell, who together had recently reported profits of £25bn. By applying the Treasury's own estimates of the social and environmental cost of carbon emissions, we calculated that the total bill for those costs would reach £46.5bn, massively outweighing profits and plunging the companies into the red.
World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers | Money | The Guardian - 0 views
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· First ever study of global household assets · 50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth
Nearly a billion people worldwide are starving, UN agency warns | World news | The Guar... - 0 views
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* Rising prices mean 14% now under-nourished * Urgency over food crisis lost amid credit crunch
Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views
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Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of holding global warming to safe levels all but out of reach, according to unpublished estimates from the International Energy Agency.