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Can We Save The World’s Largest Flowers From The Brink Of Extinction?
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 9:06 am | Independent Media Institute
The 42 known species of the genus Rafflesia are under threat due to deforestation and habitat destruction. More >>
How The Rich And Their Right-Wing Cronies Plot To Break Working People
Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 8:58 am | Independent Media Institute
Workers are already turning the tables. More and more are unionizing, bargaining good contracts, and exercising the kind of collective power that swept Powell and other activists to victory over the pro-corporate hacks in Missouri in 2018. More >>
The Wider Benefits Of Choosing Life Off The Grid
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 10:23 am | Independent Media Institute
Going off the grid isn’t just about solar power and gardens—it’s about slowing down, prioritizing what matters, and creating a life rooted in self-reliance and personal freedom. More >>
Protect Your Inbox: How To Avoid Email And Text Scams
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 9:34 am | Independent Media Institute
Remember, if something feels off, don’t click on it. Take a moment to verify the sender’s identity before taking any action. After all, your privacy is worth the few extra minutes it might take to protect it. More >>
When We Restore Forests, We Also Preserve Bird Habitats
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:34 am | Independent Media Institute
Lands vital for climate resilience and the forestry industry are also critical habitats for declining bird species, offering a rare opportunity to align conservation with ecosystem services and secure a resilient future for both birds and people. More >>
Rules Vs. Reality: How Competing Views Shape The Way We Use Language
Friday, 5 September 2025, 9:25 am | Independent Media Institute
Language is not a static or steadfast system. It changes over time. These changes are shaped by sociocultural, geographic, historical, political, economic, and technological influences, highlighting that language is a social phenomenon. More >>
Charter Cities Attempting To Create A New Atlantis
Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 1:41 pm | Independent Media Institute
From deregulated economic zones to experiments in private governance, charter city projects aim to reshape how we live. Their rise compounds concerns over sovereignty and the ideological and financial interests driving them. More >>
Gratitude Journaling: A Guide For Caregivers
Sunday, 31 August 2025, 9:44 pm | Independent Media Institute
Unpaid caregivers often face burnout and stress, but science shows that gratitude journaling can boost well-being and help them find strength, meaning, and peace. More >>
Necropolitics And The Language Of Death: How Military Talk Turns Recruits Into Killers
Sunday, 31 August 2025, 9:42 pm | Independent Media Institute
From boot camp battle cries to euphemisms on the battlefield, the U.S. military relies on “kill talk”—a robust linguistic infrastructure to strip individuality, suppress empathy, and normalize violence, long before they ever fire a shot. More >>
Can We Protect Our Children From The Government?
Saturday, 30 August 2025, 4:24 pm | Independent Media Institute
As part of back-to-school preparations, teachers are patrolling their schools against ICE arrests of students and their families. More >>
Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases Of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, And Poland
Saturday, 30 August 2025, 4:21 pm | Independent Media Institute
The rebirth of the state entails the reconstruction of borders, symbols, and shared narratives—often in contexts of deep geopolitical instability. The ability of people to transform historical memory into a political project is what distinguishes mere ... More >>
Looking Back At The Positions On South African Apartheid Taken By Ambitious Democrats
Sunday, 24 August 2025, 6:05 pm | Independent Media Institute
Certain prominent Democrats led efforts in the 1980s to help end apartheid, but the political costs and benefits were uncertain at the time, and some remain debated today. More >>
How Indigenous Jarawara Women Use Snuff To Shape Movement, Meaning, And Daily Life
Saturday, 23 August 2025, 6:16 pm | Independent Media Institute
Among the Jarawara, snuff is more than a daily ritual—it’s a source of pleasure, power, and connection, shaped by the care and agency of women. More >>
How Trump Helps Companies Save A Pittance At The Risk Of Workers’ Lives
Sunday, 10 August 2025, 6:49 am | Independent Media Institute
The DOL—overseeing MSHA and other safety agencies—says it wants to cut “red tape” for employers and ban district managers from requiring additional safeguards they consider necessary. More >>
Questioning The Corporation
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 8:02 am | Independent Media Institute
From trading posts to tech empires, corporations continue to grow in strength. Without reform, their power may soon eclipse public control entirely. More >>
Illegitimate Power, Illegitimate Violence: How Nations Are Built On The Backs Of Disenfranchised Children
Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:07 pm | Independent Media Institute
True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power. More >>
Public Funding Is The Solution To Media Bias, Not The Driver
Friday, 25 July 2025, 9:03 am | Independent Media Institute
The billionaire class has its sights set on an ignorant populace that would be more receptive to its morally bankrupt ideology. More >>
The Corporate Takeover Of Housing
Saturday, 12 July 2025, 4:36 pm | Independent Media Institute
Corporate ownership remains a relatively small percentage of American housing. But a growing number of financial firms, tech platforms, and institutional landlords, alongside a national housing shortage, is making homeownership even less affordable. More >>
A Tale Of Two Nations: The North Aral Sea Rebounds While The South Aral Sea Dries Up
Friday, 11 July 2025, 8:25 am | Independent Media Institute
Once a thriving inland sea, the Aral has become a cautionary tale of ecological collapse, political neglect, and uneven recovery, as efforts in Kazakhstan are bringing about a slow revival in the north, while Uzbekistan’s extractivist priorities leave the ... More >>
The Frontier Research Of Michael Levin’s Biology Lab
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 8:10 am | Independent Media Institute
Asked what the lab is working on now, Levin listed many things in the interview, including: “better imaging of bioelectric states of complex tissues in vivo; better ways to communicate new goals to cells in regenerative contexts using the bioelectric ... More >>
