Thursday, March 28, 2024

This Labor Day, Let’s Look at Ways Green Energy Is Helping Americans

The fuel for solar and wind is free. At some point in the next 50 years, installation will be done or inexpensive, and the fuel will be gratis. The average worker will likely experience the equivalent of a 6% raise as a result.

2017 – A thunderous clash of politics, economies and policies

The Paris agreement may face a major test and even an existential challenge in 2017, if Trump fulfils his election promise to pull the US out.

The Big Fix sticks: nothing impedes Trumpist fealty to its endlessly disruptive, authoritarian strongman 

Will ANY Trump crime or conviction, no matter how heinous or despicable, alienate backers who not only believe Trump is incapable of evil but also see him as the lone savior against countless enemies?

I couldn’t help but wonder…is democratic socialism catching on?

Here’s hoping Cynthia Nixon and other democratic socialist candidates can make the case successfully this year.

Time is Money: Building Local Solidarity Through Time Banking

Time Banking is easy to understand in terms of the way we already work and, with a little enthusiasm, these programs are relatively uncomplicated to set up and manage.

Don’t Be Fooled. TPP Is Still Very Much Alive. Help Kill It For Good

Hillary Clinton could help kill TPP by demanding the President Obama withdraw TPP from any possibility of consideration in the “lame duck” session of Congress.

G7 countries to end overseas funding for fossil fuel development

“We are united in the view that climate and environment security are absolutely synonymous with energy and national security."

Human Rights Watch and FIFA test Middle East fallout of Trump’s election

The rise of Mr. Trump potentially throws a monkey wrench into Middle Eastern politics, the fallout of which is uncertain.

Demobilizing America

A nation made by war and a citizenry unmade by it.