Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
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Anti-Fracking Protests Go Global As Europeans Refuse Corporate Trade Pact
Thousands marched in dozens of countries last weekend to reject fracking while more than 1,000 actions occurred across Europe in opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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French Economist Wins Nobel Prize For Work "Taming Powerful Firms"
The 61-year-old began his influential studies on regulation and oligopolies in the 1980s – and last year scrutinized the pay and motivation structure in banking and other industries.
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Weekend of Resistance Becomes Moral Monday As St. Louis Protests Surge
About 500 protesters shouted slogans at riot police in St. Louis overnight into Monday morning near the climax of four days of street rallies and sit-ins over the two police shootings.
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New Occupation Of London’s Parliament Square As People Demand Real Democracy
"What we are doing is taking back this bit of common land for a short amount of time to create a real debate – a real discussion that people want to be having.”
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Law Enforcement Scandal As Asset Seizures Fuel Police Spending
Police agencies have used hundreds of millions of dollars taken from Americans under federal civil forfeiture law to buy guns, armored cars and electronic surveillance gear – as well as luxury vehicles.
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17 Arrested In St. Louis During "Ferguson October" Protest
Sunday morning's arrests capped a long Saturday of dissent that began with at least several hundred people marching through downtown St. Louis to protest shootings and racial inequality.
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Money Driving Politics: $430 Million Spent on Ad Wars In State Elections
More cash has gone to governors' races in Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania than any U.S. Senate race – while Texas’s lieutenant governor and AG top state-level funding.
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U.S. Seed Libraries Mobilize to Protect Right to Share
Despite an arguably incorrect interpretation of Pennsylvania law, states are now considering adopting its seed library protocol – threatening to kill a fast growing seed library movement.
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Price Gouging, Regulatory Capture and Scandal In America's Markets
America’s agonizingly slow recovery from the last recession is unlike any of the 32 previous business cycles of economic expansion and contraction, going back 160 years.
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Cuomo Administration Edited and Delayed Fracking Study
The report, commissioned by New York state in 2011, was going to result in a number of politically inconvenient truths for the governor.
