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"Hospital", by Maxime Delacambre is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0. “We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.” — Shirley Chisholm In part 1 of this article (published last year), I wrote about how to take care of your own health as prescriptions become harder to get and doctor appointments are booked out for the

Defining Anarchism While anarchists often rock a punk rock vibe, anarchism is more than a feeling. It’s not nihilism or chaos. David Graeber, anthropologist and one of the leading figures of Occupy Wall Street clarifies: "Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be furth

Let's say you are a political leader with shitty morals, dreams of fascism, and accelerationist leanings. Your hope is to do whatever you...

Anarchy graffiti by Banksy "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based of five thousand years of experience,...

The future is now. Rather than an abstract sense of "later", some unknown point far from today when scenarios like those portrayed in Black Mirror play out, our concept of "the future" is currently happening. All the sci-fi books that told of the sacrifice of privacy in the name of progress, the blurred lines between humanity and technology, dictators and madmen creating an authoritarian world — these are happening now . The Umbrella Corporation of Resident Evil is Google, Am

"Our days are numbered. Passionately pursue a life of excellence" —Guy McPherson S065 by Igor Morski. http://www.igor.morski.pl/ After discovering The Limits to Growt h nearly a decade ago and watching how the effects of climate change have drastically changed our world, I have come to accept that the collapse of civilization due to the damage that humans have caused had begun. What was it that first woke you up in this respect? After taking a couple of college courses in bi

The world economy is at a major turning point, which is why we should brace for rapid changes in the economy. The world is moving from having enough goods and services to go around to not having enough to go around. The dynamics of the economy are very different with not enough to go around. The hoped-for solution of higher prices doesn’t fix the situation; after a point, adding more buying-power mostly produces inflation. Other solutions are needed. The world economy is re

Most of the mainstream press is keen to blame it on “Greed-flation” , a term coined to describe the choices of grocery corporations to...

The rotten and oppressive summer in Phoenix lasts six months, the air dry and the hot winds that smell of death and burnt coal, palm...

Augmented reality headsets are not new, but the new mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro is a dystopian travesty right out of Black Mirror....

Work hard, play hard. Time is money. Thank God it’s Friday. These modern sayings have become so common in the Western World (especially...

Director’s Statement: Through a series of unexpected, violent, and humorous transitions, Cosmohedron explores the connections between...

Last night my partner and I were watching a documentary called Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo. Like many cult leaders,...