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Dan Simmer

USAID was also running covert operations for the CIA

The original mission of USAID was to provide support to developing countries in their efforts to acquire knowledge and resources essential to development. However, over time, the agency’s mission became corrupted and it was used as a tool for domestic political agendas and foreign covert operations by the State

The Light Triad

(Recorded February 12th, 2025) Description Deception and self-interest seem to be increasingly prevalent in our modern cultural reality. From the highest levels of power to the cultural metrics of what is considered ‘success’ for individual humans: the Dark Triad traits of Narcissism, Sociopathy, and Machiavellianism have become disturbingly normalized. But

You see more than you think you see

Could it be that when we act on impulse or have a hunch about something, we are using information that has been fed into our brains without our knowledge? Dr.

Power vs Life: Towards Wide Boundary Sovereignty

(Recorded January 20th, 2025) Description We are alive at a critical juncture for human civilization, and the biosphere, where the pursuit and accumulation of power – accelerated by technology and AI – increasingly threatens the support systems of the diversity and majesty of complex life on Earth. These high stakes of our

Interview: “I Didn’t Hear My Other Children Screaming”

Shaima Suhail Abu Jazar, Medical evacuee from Gaza: It was 2 a.m. The bombing started. The bombing was very, very heavy.

We Have Entered the Era of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated

Introduction The ocean absorbs 90 percent of the excess heat generated by burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is the primary driver of long-term global warming. Today, humanity is officially in uncharted waters. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, in February 2024, the

How Human Experience Makes Science Possible

This adapted excerpt is from The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson (2025, MIT Press). It is reproduced with permission from MIT Press. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media

How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’

This article was produced by Human Bridges. We used to have “balloon” debates in school: The hot-air balloon is losing height and, to avoid disaster, people must be jettisoned. To avoid this fate, everybody must justify why they should remain on board and their classmates then vote them “on” or

When a Vegetarian Sausage Beats an MRI Scanner

Modern doctors rely far too much on technology; they rely too much upon equipment which is often faulty, frequently badly calibrated and more often than not downright misleading. Today’s doctors have lost the skill that was most valued among doctors a generation ago: the skill to make diagnoses. Let’

Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California

In this month’s massive Los Angeles fires, so far 24 people have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and approximately 16,308 hectares have been burned. The fires are already among the most destructive in California’s recorded history. And as happens when major fires erupt in Los