One week before Buy Nothing Day focuses the attention of activists around the world on the perils of overconsumption, groundbreaking economist, Herman Daly, zeroes in on the root cause of our financial meltdown.

We've reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. (Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79, on newsstands now.)

Steve Forbes claims that capitalism will save us.

The Person of the Year award is given to an individual who wields a massive social, environmental and economic impact.

Generation O reveals its revolutionary potential.

All this talk of change may amount to little more than a fantasy.

Israeli blockade leaves the Gaza Strip in the dark.

In the wake of Obama’s victory, we must rise together and manifest a cultural shift.

Obama's victory makes possible a radical change of direction. Our readers weigh in on where they think America is headed.

How will the 43rd President of the United States be remembered? Chances are, as the Torture President.