resource wars

Iran plans, awkward awards and pernicious plantations + this day in history w/bombing civilians and our song of the day by Depeche Mode on your Morning Monarchy for February 13, 2017.

If the sharing economy movement is to play a role in shifting society away from the dominant economic paradigm, it will have to get political. And this means guarding against the co-optation of sharing by the corporate sector, while joining forces with a much larger body of activists that have long been calling – either explicitly or implicitly – for more transformative and fundamental forms of economic sharing across the world.