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Are you interested in how you impact the rest of the world, or how others impact the world thereby affecting you? Do you want to do something to improve things? ... About Us

Objective journalism on the struggles of democracy in a socially stratified society.

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Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fixby Matt TaibbiAPRIL 25, 2013Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the…See More
May 3
Cromag posted a video

TVSet - Community Rights vs. GMOs

Full interview with Clinton Lindsey on Benton County's plight against toxic Rape Seed (Canola) infiltrating and contanimating seed crops in the Willamette Va...
May 1
Cromag's video was featured

Jonathan Haidt: The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

The Moral Matrix! Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives…
May 1
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Beyond Hope

Beyond Hopeby Derrick JensenPhotograph by Stephen WilkesTHE MOST COMMON WORDS I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked. Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have—or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them…See More
Mar 19
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Jan 18
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The Outsider's Guide to Supporting Nonviolent Resistance to Dictatorship

A few months ago, a group of experts on nonviolence from around the world gathered in New York to consider how those outside a country subject to dictatorship or repression might help those within it fighting for democracy.The result was this document, a list of nonviolent techniques that can and have been used against repressive dictatorships…See More
Nov 13, 2012
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Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Bill Moyers explores how America's vast inequality didn't just happen, it's been politically engineered. 

Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Winner Take All Politics

Bill Moyers explores how America's vast inequality didn't just happen, it's been politically engineered. 
Nov 13, 2012

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Ban Chemically Scented Products From The Olympics? Bringing Personal Habits To Public Places....It's A Stinky Issue.

For people with COPD, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, and Asthma, Chemically Scented Products can be a major Disability Barrier.  Just a quick surf on the internet shows how many people are unable to…Continue

Started by Melva Smith in Sample Title Aug 9, 2011.

Please Sign the Scent-Free Olympic Petition

Dear Fellow Activists.  What do you all think about a scent-free Olympics? If you or someone you know finds scented products to be a disability barrier, you might be interested in knowing that there…Continue

Tags: COPD, Sensitivity, Allergy, Sports, barriers

Started by Melva Smith in Sample Title Jun 21, 2011.

Ethics Among Activists 1 Reply

I've been active now in a concerted way for many years, and I've worked on a number of causes and with many different people. Most of these relationships have been very positive. Activists are…Continue

Tags: organizing, activism, Ethics

Started by Cromag in Uncategorized. Last reply by Ice Goldberg Oct 21, 2009.

Blog Posts

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

Posted by Cromag on May 3, 2013 at 1:30pm 0 Comments

The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix

APRIL 25, 2013…

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Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories AND Where They Originate

Posted by Cromag on May 2, 2013 at 1:00pm 0 Comments

An expert explains the psychology of conspiratorial thinking

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The Diffusion of Protests

Posted by Cromag on May 1, 2013 at 1:16pm 0 Comments

Excerpts from Koopmans, Ruud (2004) ‘Protest in time and space: the evolution of waves of contention’, in David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 19–46.

A simple repetition of past patterns of protest by dissidents is [...] unlikely to lead to such an exposure of political opportunities. Regimes have established ways of dealing with known types of protest and…

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Beyond Hope

Posted by Cromag on March 19, 2013 at 2:30pm 0 Comments

Beyond Hope

by Derrick Jensen

Photograph by Stephen Wilkes

THE MOST COMMON WORDS I hear spoken by any…

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The Outsider's Guide to Supporting Nonviolent Resistance to Dictatorship

Posted by Cromag on November 13, 2012 at 4:51pm 0 Comments

A few months ago, a group of experts on nonviolence from around the world gathered in New York to consider how those outside a country subject to dictatorship or repression might help those within it fighting for democracy.

The result was this document, a list of nonviolent techniques that can and have been used against repressive…

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Breaking Glass Steagall

Posted by Cromag on August 2, 2012 at 3:00pm 0 Comments

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Posted by Cromag on August 2, 2012 at 2:00pm 0 Comments

In 1919 Rothschild’s Business Roundtable launched the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London. The RIIA soon spawned sister organizations around the globe, including the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Asian Institute of Pacific Relations, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, the Brussels-based Institute des Relations Internationales, the Danish Foreign Policy Society, the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Australian Institute of International…

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The WEF Global Agenda Councils: Architects and PR for the Elite

Posted by Cromag on August 2, 2012 at 2:00pm 0 Comments

Davos is a municipality of Switzerland and is host to the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of global political and business elites (often referred to simply as Davos).



The World Economic Forum is "an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas." from the…

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The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia

Posted by Cromag on June 25, 2012 at 3:21pm 0 Comments

How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy - until they were caught on tape

Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia. Of course, you won't hear the recent financial…

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Why Nonviolent Revolutions Sometimes Fail

Posted by Cromag on May 21, 2012 at 12:09pm 0 Comments

Insights from Civil Resistance Struggles in China, Panama, and Kenya from 1985-1992

Academic Webinar

In the 1980s, the world was captivated as East Germans brought down the Berlin wall and the Filipino “people power” movement ousted long-standing dictator Ferdinand Marcos.  Yet other civil resistance movements during this time failed to achieve political change.  Researchers have largely focused on successful nonviolent uprisings. Little attention has…

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