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WikiLeaks Director Julian Assange's offense has been to challenge the monopoly of the modern state over the information it needs for its "security" functions: in practical terms, the capacity to make endless war and to lay waste societies in its way. For questioning this, Assange has brought down upon his head a gallery of enemies impressive in the extreme, from right-wingers like Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and Joe Lieberman along with the reactionary media that feeds them, to governments like Sweden and Switzerland, and corporations like Amazon.com, Master Card, VISA, and PayPal, who severed their business relationships with WikiLeaks under pressure from the U.S. government. Adapted from the source document.

Whether expressed as climate change, species loss, pollution, soil loss, or any of the indices of a traumatized nature, the "ecological crisis" that Earth is undergoing, unless creatively resolved, signifies the downfall of civilization and perhaps the extinction of our species. This problem cannot be resolved through technological, administrative, or legislative means, but rather requires us to focus on the larger pattern -- that this crisis grows out of and reproduces a way of being rooted deeply in our history. Its resolution, therefore, will require a social transformation of world-historical importance, one that redirects society toward ecological integrity. My thesis is that an appropriation of Karl Marx in relation to ecology is necessary -- though not sufficient -- for this project. Adapted from the source document.