How to survive us
Young people need real information and analysis, survival skills and resources.
Why labor is holding its applause for Michigan’s latest ‘workers’ rights’ measures
Even as they passed the measures, lawmakers made it clear that they did so not to enshrine them in law, but to create an opportunity to water them down later.
Amazon refuses to act on climate change. So we employees are speaking out
We know from labor history that when workers want change, they shouldn’t just wait for company leadership to act.
Discontent by design: The lost world of The West
The Culture of Pleasure sits tightly within and feeds the pervasive Ideology of Consumerism, a socio-economic model that has poisoned the environment and led to the commodification of everything, and everyone.
Media forget Afghan plight as US sanctions drive mass famine risk
Afghan citizens have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis due in no small part to U.S. sanctions, but where is the outrage?
US mass killers crucially abetted by nuts who won’t ban assault weapons and high-capacity...
If we don’t permit people to buy bombs and hand-held wire-guided anti-aircraft rockets, why do we permit them to buy semi-automatic assault rifles?
America’s Shkreli problem
What, if anything, does Martin Shkreli’s downfall tell us about modern America?
We can no longer afford a fossil fuel economy
The costs of not acting are high. The benefits of investing in a clean energy economy would be widespread. We need to keep building the movement.
A plaintive plea from America’s rich: Let’s change the subject!
Other candidates, most notably Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, begrudge plenty and have specific proposals for changing the rules that let wealth keep concentrating.
Media play up protests, play down effect of US sanctions in Cuba
While giving the protests a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.