The Truth Shall Set You Free
to make informed choices.
Table of contents:
Economy, Environment and Earth
New Earth vs. New (Old) World Order
Inter- and Intra-national Relations and Social Justice
on second page (linked at bottom)
Health
on second page (linked at bottom)
Food and Other Nourishment
on second page (linked at bottom)
Sexuality and Gender
on second page (linked at bottom)
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Innovation and Education: Political, Social, Economic, Environmental and Technological
With High Unemployment, Time Banks Offer an Alternative Way to Earn
The Couchsurfing Culture is Spreading Across the Planet
Turning Capitalism on its Head by Cooperating for Sustainable Food
Why Workplace Autonomy is the Way of the Future
Imagine a World Where People Love Their Jobs
J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech
Inspiring
The Economic Revolution Is Already Happening - It's Just Not on Wall Street
31 Ways to Jumpstart Your Local Economy
Seattle Doctors Try Flat-Rate, No-Limit Primary Care
Mondragon Worker-Operatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
A Solar Revolution May be Coming to Your Town
The Financial Crisis Is Too Dire to Be Left to Politicians
Deafeating the Multinationals is Just the Start of the Problem for the Anti-Globalization Movement
Bolivia's movement to democratize access to water and other basic needs
The values of PARECON as they relate to political structure.
The Human Rights Problem of Articulating Collective Voice for the Most Marginalized
Looking at this issue through the lens of public health
Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education
Learn about the vision of a resource-based economy. Free ebook available for download.
Introduces The Venus Project
Also see the original film, "Zeitgeist, the Movie", below in the New Earth vs. the New (and Old) World Order section.
Obama's YouTube Plan - Is It Really That Important?
Interview between Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Francois Noubel
A conversation about social solutions, spiritual evolution and bliss. Inspiring.
Our Economy, Our Environment and Our Earth
Air Conditioning is Terrible for the Earth - Here's How to Live Without It
How a Tiny Town Sent an International Water Giant Packing
Life After Oil: Cuba Can Teach Us How to Live Without Our Dirty Fossil Fuel Addiction
video from Fault Lines - In Deep Water: A Way of Life in Peril
The Dollar Might Be Having Problems...
Gulf Residents Gassed; Florida Prepares Evacuation
Part 1 of 4
Why We need Bees and More People to Become Organic Beekeepers
New Proposed Climate Change Bill in Washington Is Simpler and More Equitable
What America's 'Crisis' Means to the Rest of the World
An excellent historical expose, by Noam Chomsky, of state capitalism in the U.S. and its effects around the world. Note: There is an error in the copy. The first 2-1/2 pages are repeated.
Indigenous Tribes: "We Are Fighting for Our Lives and Our Dignity"
How to measure the value of cooperation
Grant Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat Bankrupted GM
The Dark Side of Plan Colombia
Good News There's a Climate Bill -- Bad News It Stinks
Hemp Isn't Pot; It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need
In India, Women Farmers Ready to Beat Climate Change
How to Pay for a Global Climate Deal
Your Favorite Organic Brands are Mostly Owned by Mega Corporations
The Department of Homegrown Security
The Military's Expanding Waistline: What Will Obama Do with KBR?
Many Employers Are Just Using the Recession to Stick it to Workers
Global Environmental Collapse Must Be Addressed as Part of Discussion on the Economy
"Recovery" has now been precluded.
Is It Possible to Be a Conscientious Meat Eater?
The Campaign to Loot Social Security
Everything Still Looks the Same, But We've Become a New Country
Is America on the Brink of a Food Crisis?
Stop Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic and Nationalize the Damn Banks
Now how about the Federal Reserve, too?
A 'Green Tsunami' in Brazil: The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol
The Next Real Estate Crisis: Shuttered Stores and Empty Malls
Offers a different solution to the economic crisis that what has generally been proposed.
End the Era of Marijuana Prohibition
Obama's Team Signals It's Taking the Taxpayer Ripoff Route to Saving Our Financial System
Organic and Sustainable Farmers Can Feed the World
Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings?
Another example of how markets do not serve the common good. For an alternative, read PARECON (link on this page).
What Am I Bid for the American Wild?
The Shadow Money Lenders: The Real Significance of the Fed's Zero- Interest-Rate Policy (ZIRP)
Boatloads of Trouble: How We Are Importing our Way to Destruction
Was the 'Credit Crunch' a Myth Used to Sell a Trillion-Dollar Scam?
How We Can Live with Less and Still Feel Rich
5 Ways to Usher in the Green New Age
It's Official: We're Just a Few Years from Peak Oil
Blacks and Immigrants Bring in the Union
What it (still) takes to get justice at work
Autoworkers Forced to Take Concessions in Industry Bailout
Another example of the inhumanity of capitalism
9 Christmas Gifts You Can Give to Your Mother... Earth
The Good Life Doesn't Have to Cost Us the Planet
A vision of the future
Bolivian President Evo Morales: 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Environmental Disaster
Van Jones: How We Can Lead Our Country Out of Crisis
Interview with the founder of Green for All
Is the Latest Eco-Term Just Corporate Hype?
Big questions arise about the concept of "water neutrality".
Soil Not Oil: Why We Need to Kick Petroleum out of Our Farms
How Buying Fewer Clothes Can Help Us Make a Difference
Having a 'Better' Economist in Obama's Cabinet Won't Cut It
What it will really take to turn things around. It's actually pretty simple.
Financial Expert Max Keiser on the Bailout
A video in which someone refreshingly speaks the truth.
How to Stop the Looming Depression Without Lining Fat-Cat CEOs' Pockets
The G-20 Statement in plain English
A translation of what the world's rulers have planned, by Catherine Austin Fitts
The Nasty Truth: Free Trade Agreements May Scuttle Green Jobs Plans
These agreements have been created by both parties. Their existence means that any change will have to be world-wide.
If the GOP Had Listened to ACORN's Advice, the Mortgage Industry Wouldn't Be in Meltdown
And this is the organization that the GOP is now scapegoating.
Can Obama See the Grand Canyon? On Presidential Blindness and Economic Catastrophe
More evidence that the only solution is to take power into our own hands rather than giving it away to anyone.
Globalization, the U.S. empire and the solution: an alternative to profit-based economies. Very worth viewing and thinking about.
Also see the original film, "Zeitgeist, the Movie", below in the New Earth vs. the New (and Old) World Order section.
The Age of Unbridled Consumption Just Ended
Short and to the point. The only idea I'd take issue with is that only those who DON'T suffer catastrophic losses get to learn lessons. I'd say we're all learning, just in different ways.
Toyota Driving Global Automakers' Race to the Bottom
I was going to buy a Corolla. Now I don't think so. This is why we need to think globally about change.
Ten Ways to Bail Out Wall Street (and Main Street) Without Soaking Taxpayers in Debt
An interesting piece to get you thinking about real options for our economy.
Michael Moore: Here's How to Fix the Mess on Wall Street
Another collection of ideas, some great.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Rejects $700 Billion Bailout
One Congressman who stood firm; his perspective is worth remembering, even though the vote is over.
Meltdown and Bailout: Why our Economic System is on the Verge of Collapse
Worth reading if you'd like to understand all the root causes.
Talk at a Venezuela Conference on the Crisis of Capitalism
by Michael Albert
This describes an economic and social model that I wholeheartedly support. It's called PARECON.
Free Water: Harvesting Rainwater is Catching on in the US
See? There's lots of reason for hope.
Beyond Carbon: Scientists Worry About Nitrogen's Effects
Another reason to go organic.
Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You - Fighting the Corporations Will
Although I don't resonate with the "fighting" idea anymore, this illustrates that the issues are bigger than some of the proposed solutions, so we need to think... and BE bigger.
How North Korea served as the world's canary and what's in store for us all.
The Folly of Turning Water into Fuel
Agribusiness and politicians are sucking our country dry with mandates for biofuels.
A video that's both highly educational and wonderfully entertaining (great for kids and adults).
Busting some myths about the economics of war and peace.
The Next President's First Task [A Manifesto]
Carbon dependence has eroded our economic power, destroyed our moral authority, diminished our international influence and prestige, endangered our national security, and damaged our health and landscapes. It is subverting everything we value. By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Where current international food policies have gotten us.
The problem and the solution from Catherine Austin Fitts:
The New Earth vs. the New (really the Old) World Order: political, economic, social and spiritual problems and solutions
including exposes of the truth about 911
Is it Time to Replace the American Dream?
UN Address: Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect
Torture Continues at Guantanamo Bay
And it's worse than we thought.
56-minute video
Video with interview of Webster Tarpley. The interview begins around 9 minutes into it. A brief version of the points made may be found in the video below, also by Webster Tarpley.
The Men Behind Barack Obama Part 1
Part 2 is linked to this page.
1934 General Strike Laid Basis for Counterculture
In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism
2.5 hour video
I Was Illegally Detained by the U.S. Government and Held in CIA-Run "Black Sites"
Insider information from a selfless group
A 2-hour video about 911 and its cover-up
Companies Are Marketing Police State Normalcy to Children
A 45-minute video documentary
Is Obama really in charge?
A PBS video from 1987, still valid today.
Can Labor Revive the American Dream?
How the U.S. Army Field Manual Codified Torture - and Still Does
The extent to which we're being spied on.
Mass Rape in the Congo: A Crime Against Society
The Top 40 Reasons to Doubt the Official Story of September 11, 2001
This is a video of Part 1 of a TV program. There is a link to Part 2 on the page.
The Left Gatekeepers Phenomenon
How to explain much of the Left's unwillingness to expose the truth of 911?
5 Ways to Usher in the Green New Age
Rove's IT Guru Warned of Sabotage Before Fatal Plane Crash; Was Set to Testify
The state of our self-government and what the rulers are capable of
Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising
Theater of War: Portrait of Homeland Security State [with photo slideshow included]
Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society
Perhaps the most important part of our agenda for the future.
Greg Palast on How Rove May Have Already Stolen the 2008 Elections
Includes a great discussion on where race and racism currently stand in America, which is why it's worth reading even if we're past the election.
The Ultimate 911 Truth Showdown
David Griffin, author of many books on 911, shines in this debate.
Nader is best at revealing the potential of an engaged citizenry.
The Bailout: How Capitalism Killed Democracy
Naomi Wolf asks: Can't we be revolutionaries?
An interview on her latest book and how to re-empower ourselves.
Are You Ready for the New Earth?
Channeled information on what's happening now and what lies ahead.
by master spiritual teacher Jim Self
Watch the videos below while they're still available online. Most are full-length movies. Some also discuss the spiritual solution.
Exposes and explores religious myths, 911, the Federal Reserve Bank and more. Ends with challenge to reclaim our power with Love.
Michael Ruppert's work, chock-full of evidence, and about much more than just what happened on 9/11.
Wake Up Call - New World Order Documentary - 2008
This is an excellent full-length film, produced by Ben Stewart.
Our Energy and Geopolitics
Three Mile Island: Exposing the Government's Coverup of Our Most Infamous Nuclear Accident
109 minute video
Why Obama's Plan to Help Renewable Energy May Backfire and Aid Big Coal
Lindsey Williams' video on energy manipulation and a lot more.