Category: Politics

Without Trace – George Monbiot 🔗

If you are not incandescent with rage, you haven’t grasped the scale of what has been done to us.

The State of It – George Monbiot 🔗

> The Conservative promise to shrink the state was always a con. But it has seldom been as big a lie as it is today. Johnson grabs powers back from Parliament with both fists …

David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ David Graeber, anthropologist and anarchist author of bestselling books on bureaucracy and economics including Bullshit Jobs: A Theory and Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has died aged 59.

How maps in the media make us more negative about migrants 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ It’s like one of those optical illusions: it looks like one face at first, but it’s actually two. Once you see the second face, you can never unsee it. In this case, the illusion is how we view migration – it’s the maps we see so frequently that visualise migration for us.

Why Autonomy News? – Autonomy News 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ The Autonomy News collective plans to produce original articles like this one on a fairly regular basis, as well as reposting content from elsewhere. In our first article we examine the current historical moment, and why there is a need for a site like this.

Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Right now, more than ever, we need a hopeful view of human nature. While we’re right to keep our physical distance from those around us to stop the spread of the virus, we also need to believe that it’s these same people who will get us through it. We need to trust them.