Sorry, there was a YouTube error. ’Tis the season for holiday shopping, and as American consumers ready their spending dollars, few of us are likely to link our gift buying to the high cost of low prices on the other side of the planet. This is especially true for what has come to be known […]
The GOP’s ‘Red Caesar’ New Political Order Plan Marches Forward: By Thom Hartmann
“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane.”
Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch: By Sonali Kolhatkar
Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently issued a scathing statement about the shameful state of the United States economy.
How Right-Wing Brainchild ‘Universal School Vouchers’ Are Blowing Through State Budgets: By Jeff Bryant
In 2023, Republican state governors went to unprecedented lengths to enact universal school voucher programs in legislative sessions across the country and made support for these programs into rigid party ideology.
How the National Infrastructure Program Creates Jobs for Today and Tomorrow: By David McCall
Ryan Andreas helped his union push through legislation for a national infrastructure program in 2021, realizing that historic upgrades to America’s utilities, ports, and bridges portended brighter futures for him and his co-workers at Travis Pattern and Foundry.It turned out exactly as Andreas anticipated.
Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism, by Richard D. Wolff
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. Socialism is capitalism’s critical shadow. When lights shift, a shadow may seem to disappear, but sooner or later, with further shifts of light, it comes back. Capitalism’s ideologues have long fantasized that capitalism would finally outwit, outperform, and thereby overcome socialism: make the shadow vanish permanently. Like children, they […]
Don’t allow apathy to prevail in 2024, by John Young
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. The disbelief in the room was audible. I had just informed students in my college mass media class that – yes – a felon could be president. A multiple felon. A sentence-serving felon, as long as the felon is 35 and a citizen. Check your Constitution. Check Google. One […]
Eye for eye, extremism for extremism, by John Young
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. Until through our consumptive excess we no longer fit into Earth’s plans, religion will reign as the most destructive force on the planet. So much suffering: so many moral precepts stamped by – and corrupted by — mortals. Consider the war raging in which many more will die today […]
G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles, By Richard D. Wolff
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles. Britain and France were absolute monarchies in late European feudalism fully engaged in power struggles. At the same […]
The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary, by Reynard Loki
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. Spanning 16.7 million acres that stretch across most of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the United States by far and part of the world’s largest temperate rainforest. Humans barely inhabit it: About the size of West Virginia, the Tongass has around 70,000 residents spread across 32 communities. […]
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