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Editorial

Make Them Live!

At the height of the uprising, people marched in Bonn, Rome, London, Tokyo, New York and dozens of other cities around the world; students in universities revolted…”

News

Bolton Dodges War Crimes

Environmental Journalist George Mombiot attempts a citizen’s arrest of former Under-Secretary of State, John Bolton.

Life at the End of Empire

Peak oil, mass extinction, catastrophic climate change. With every passing day, the signs are becoming more and more difficult to deny. But we deny them anyway. We swear we’ll curb emissions. We pledge to actively pursue an alternative energy policy. We don’t believe we have a problem. We can stop anytime we want. Just not today.

Essay

A Modern Tupperware Tale

The modern woman prefers hi-tech weaponry to cute plastic food containers.

Commentary

Thought Control In Economics

A high level of conformity in academic institutions makes it difficult for economists to tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Essay

We Grew Up Too Comfortable to Take Risks

What if Japan, the face of the future, is showing us who we are becoming – as a kind of proverbial ‘canary in a coal mine,’ a Cassandra of our trans-cultural futures.

News

America's Confidence Crisis

After five years of lies, incompetence and disorder, the US is facing a moral crisis that it may not survive.

Essay

Susan Sontag

When the life Sontag loved fell away and the death she feared took over, relaxation set into her body for the first time, a smile appeared on her lips and her brow unfurled.

News

Vulture Funds: A New Category in Capitalism

A new capitalism – brutal and conquering – is moving in. It’s the capitalism of a new category of vulture funds: private equity funds with the appetite of an ogre that command colossal amounts of capital.

Cover Story

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

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, hitting the newsstands now.)

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