Workers need more rights and economic democracy
It is time to correct the decades of diminishing worker rights and shrinking unions as well as low-pay.
The key to a sustainable economy is 5,000 years old
In ancient Mesopotamia, writing off debts worked brilliantly well for two millennia.
Flint’s crisis reveals national failure on school ‘leadership’
Flint, Michigan, became a national poster child for incompetence and corruption when a small group of autocratic officials put in charge by...
Real people will lead the way to #MedicareForAll
Seniors chanting “Get out of the way!” as they hold cardboard tombstones might not seem like a challenge to the largest physicians’...
Can business put people before profits?
Gordon Gekko found religion last week. Gekko, the lead in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about capitalism gone corruptly amok, is most...
Billionaires are a sign of economic failure
he New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what...
Amerika 2019: A Woody Allen film?
In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the...
White nationalists’ extreme solution to the coming environmental apocalypse
Ecofascism is a dangerous cloud gathering on the horizon.
How the women of Standing Rock are building sovereign economies
Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward.
Reporting on global crises like Amazon fires, media need to focus on who’s fighting...
It doesn’t matter so much how many reports corporate media write; if the same people stay at the center of them, the story won’t change.