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“Many Seasons Ago”: Slavery and Its Rejection among Foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America
Anthropologists have traditionally classified foragers on the Pacific coast of North America into two major culture areas, characterized by strikingly different social and ethical systems. These are “California” and the adjacent “Northwest Coast.”
A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse
What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by pop- ular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society.
After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep
In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to serve every whim of a small handful of rich people while debasing and degrading the vast majority of us — is seen as sensible or reasonable.
Against Economics
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 84
Against Kamikaze Capitalism: Oil, Climate Change and the French refinery blockades
Revolution in Reverse, p 107
America’s Kurdish allies risk being wiped out–by Nato
Remember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended the Syrian city of Kobane from Isis? They risk being wiped out by Nato.
The autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava in Northeast Syria, which includes Kobane, faces invasion.