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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Hong Kong Protests Continue Into 22nd Day As Regime Casts Blame
On Sunday, hundreds of people milled around a protest site in the gentrifying, densely-populated district Mong Kok, manning aid stations and sitting in small circles on the pavement.
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The Post-Michael Brown Agenda Provides Goals To End Racist Militarized Policing
The California city of Rialto saw an 88% drop in claims of police misconduct within one year of officers wearing cameras.
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Now Is the Moment To Win the Battle Over the Tar Sands
"Peoples' movements will either succeed in transforming our economic and political systems to build a new world, or we will burn with the old one."
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How Wells Fargo Fraudulently Foreclosed on This Florida Homeowner
Florida has the highest foreclosure rate in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2014, and also has a "foreclosure king" who is now disbarred for his failure to oversee employees accused of carrying out wrongful foreclosures.
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Egypt Risks "Student Intifada" Amid Campus Crackdown, Hundreds of Arrests
More than 110 students were reportedly arrested by the military-backed authorities during the first days of the new academic year.
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Why Are We Letting Pharmaceutical Corporations Get Away With Robbery?
Drug and device makers paid doctors $380 million in speaking and consulting fees over a five-month period last year – and saw a healthy return on their investment.
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Missouri's Solidarity Economy Is Organizing In the Wake of Mike Brown
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is a grassroots group taking the lead to combat systemic racism and build a people's economy in St. Louis.
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Climate Change Economics and the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
As of September 19, 181 institutions and local governments and 656 individuals representing over $50 billion in assets have pledged to divest from fossil fuels.
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Outraged English Towns: Save Lollipop Patrols and Keep Our Children Safe
Punishing local cuts are leaving communities up in arms as the removal of vital school road patrol service – known as the lollipop ladies – could go into effect.
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Proposed Fracked Gas Pipeline Sparks Opposition In Virginia and West Virginia
If construction crews come on 78-year-old Virginia landowner Andrew Gantt's property, “Then I’ll lie down under their bulldozer. I’m serious.”
