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“John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 peace campaign came to a close on this day [December 23, 1969] following a meeting with Canada’s prime minister Pierre Trudeau. The meeting took place in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Lennon and Ono had arrived in the city at 2am that...

A Time of the Shaman’s Gift Bringing Ancient Origins of the Season’s Icons Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, the longest night. In the northern hemisphere this occurs December 20, 21, 22 or even the 23rd, varying from year to year, dependent upon the elliptical path of the...

All the Species Declared Extinct This Decade Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island tortoises, died in 2012. George’s...

"When you align with the people who are most responsible for this planetary crisis, you are compromising everything. You can't hold the global elites accountable and join them in their faux solutions without becoming morally neutered."- Alexia Olson

"This Could Be a Tragedy For Humanity" “It’s the first chip implanted into the human brain” Personally, I do not recommend this.

Why climate change is an irrelevance, economic growth is a myth and sustainability is forty years too late As someone who has been exploring the world’s most isolated wilderness regions for nearly half a century, I have some insight into the state of the planet and the human race’s current...

Were other humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction? Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more...

This written from my former boss at Global Exchange, a non governmental human rights org based in San Francisco. Media Benjamin is in Bolivia witnessing and taking reports of human rights violations. You can trust them to report the truth, even when the US gov is behind the violations. -...

Orwell: ‘History Stopped in 1936’ (and Everything Since Is Propaganda) Most people are familiar with the plot of the The Matrix. The 1999 film portrays a dystopian future where the “reality” that people inhabit is actually a simulation created by machines intent on subjugating the...

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'The lion has awoken': indigenous people of Bolivia rise up against imperialist coup In the days following the right-wing coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia on 10 November 2019, the indigenous masses have taken to the streets in their hundreds of thousands to defend their democratically...