Category: Food
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The Distraction Machine and the Coming Silence
BY CHRISTIAN SARKAR We are living inside a distraction machine. Every day it delivers a fresh surge of outrage: Trump’s thuggery, ICE shootings, the Epstein files, the war in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. These are not fabricated crises. They involve real violence, real victims, real injustice. They demand moral attention.And yet—taken together, and presented the…
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THUGPOWER: The Architecture of Misleadership
BY CHRISTIAN SARKAR and PHILIP KOTLER THUGPOWER names the pattern of behavior we see across the world today: when leadership stops protecting the Common Good and starts behaving like a protection racket. In the diagram, it’s drawn as a cycle because it isn’t one isolated tactic-it’s an architecture. Each move makes the next move easier,…
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Moral Superiority, Political Ambiguity, and the Belgian Compromise On Gaza
BY JEF TEUGELS When Prime Minister Bart De Wever said, “Don’t act as if your position is morally superior to someone else’s,” it sounded like a plea for humility. [Bart De Wever, Goeiemorgen morgen!, Radio 2, August 30, 2025.] But humility in politics is never neutral. In this case, it is an alibi — a…
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Wicked Problems: The Book
ANNOUNCEMENT: After almost five years, we’re happy to announce the availability of “WickedProblems: What can we do in a Time of Collapse?“ We are grateful to the Wicked7 advisers and working group. Thank you for your patience. We are also thankful to Daniel Erasmus who introduced us to his brilliant ClimateGPT – the world’s first…
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What is Crapitalism?
BY CHRISTIAN SARKAR CRAPITALISM describes the negative aspects of capitalism when it becomes dysfunctional, exploitative, or excessively focused on profit at the expense of the Common Good: Is your business following Crapitalism’s degenerative playbook? Or is it working to regenerate the Common Good? Christian Sarkar is an author, artist, and activist consultant. He is a co-founder of the Regenerative Marketing…
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Frankenpolitics: An Interview with George Tsakraklides
George Tsakraklides has a diverse background in the sciences, having trained in molecular biology, chemistry, food science, and Earth sciences. He has also worked in data analytics and marketing sciences for some of the world’s largest corporations, giving him a front-row seat to some of the most profit-driven and exploitative aspects of human society. After…
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WICKED7: Where do the US Presidential candidates stand on solving the world’s most urgent problems?
BY CHRISTIAN SARKAR and PHILIP KOTLER Which candidate offers the best chance of actually working on the world’s most urgent problems? Which candidate would make things worse? Let’s give the US Presidential candidates the Wicked7 assessment – clarifying their positions on the seven most urgent problems facing us today. Wait, what is the Wicked7 assessment?…
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Food Insecurity: Serious Challenges Ahead
By CHRISTIAN SARKAR Food insecurity, which refers to the lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life, can result from a complex interplay of various factors. What are the causes of food insecurity? The main reasons include: Food insecurity is a multifaceted challenge that requires a holistic approach involving governments, international…