Kalle Lasn

Just as farmers are the keepers of land, we designers are the keepers of mindscape. We must nurture it and care for it and make sure that there will always be wilderness, diversity and freedom there.

Kalle Lasn
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19 May 2009
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Revolutionary Spirit

"Young people in the West are pissed off as they stare into an increasingly empty and precarious future ..."

Kalle Lasn
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27 March 2009
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59 Comments

Hey President Obama

A closer examination of the White House's new economic recovery team shows that we can expect more of the same.

Kalle Lasn
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24 March 2009
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31 Comments

Live Without Dead Time

We need to narrow our focus and shrink our world.

Kalle Lasn
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22 January 2009
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25 Comments

The Twin Towers of Civilization

"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..."

Kalle Lasn
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5 September 2008
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40 Comments

Rage

What will it take to make this generation passionate about change?

Kalle Lasn
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25 June 2008
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44 Comments

The Reconquest of Cool

Forty years after corporations hijacked "cool," we need to start generating authentic cool from the bottom up again.

Kalle Lasn
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24 March 2008
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79 Comments

When the Center Collapsed

The year 2007 may well be remembered as the year the Earth tipped, but Adbusters is taking a firm hold of the planet in 2008 to try and balance things out.

Kalle Lasn
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24 December 2007
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The Myth Maker

Alan Greenspan's thick weave of lies and deceit may mean the American economy never recovers.

Kalle Lasn
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12 December 2007
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36 Comments

Elliott Abrams, Dual Loyalist and Neocon Extraordinaire

Elliott Abrams, an influential neocon and pro-Israel lobbyist par excellence, has been the principal Middle East adviser on the National Security Council staff throughout most of the Bush administration - all without most Washington observers even noticing.

Kalle Lasn
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28 September 2007
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They Shoot Media Moguls, Don't They?

He stalks, he pounces, he defies all the howls of anguish and protest and drags his prey down. Rupert Murdoch's hostile takeover of The Wall Street Journal dominated the business news for most of this year. And yet despite all that coverage, the real story never came out.

Kalle Lasn
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19 September 2007
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Editorial

Advertising is Brain Damage

As global warming deepens, and a somber, new reality sinks in, people are starting to ask some uncomfortable questions: Why, in this ecological age of ours, do we need a $500-billion industry telling us thousands of times each day to consume more? In the affluent West (where 80 percent of the global ad dollars are spent), don't we already consume enough?

Kalle Lasn
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30 July 2007
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Editorial

We're in the Endgame Now

That pretty well sums up the way most of us in the affluent West feel about global warming: we're ready to make small sacrifices, change our light bulbs, our cars and even our leaders, but our culture – the American way of life – is not negotiable.