Evidence That Poor People Aren’t Lazy
Many white conservatives may believe that poor people are just taking handouts, but for many privileged Americans, denial is easier than facing the fact that the hardest workers are those who have to fight their way up from the bottom.
The Age of the Demagogues
Are we in an age of demagogues? The collapse of our political and cultural institutions has turned charlatans and thugs such as presidential hopeful Donald Trump into viable candidates.
Here’s why prices are still high
We need to keep tackling corporate power.
What’s the point of subsidizing fossil fuels?
The industry fights to keep going and not to have to bear the cost itself of the environmental harm which it causes.
Defining the indefinable Trump void—pumping out sleazy, hot air gibberish to sabotage competent, moral...
Behold the brutal inhumanity of the Trump tornado that “zeroes in on how feeble, confused and impotent his relentlessness can make” vulnerable marks feel.
Big business won’t save us from itself
Nearly 200 CEOs have signed a pledge to “do better” than serving their own greed. How? They won’t say.
What this backward country needs—reality messaging, redemptive ‘dog whistles’ and life-saving primers to regain...
Even worse than economic blunders or imperialistic lunacy are shocking, needless deaths that now define MAGATrump – how many innocent bystanders one cult can maim, starve, disrespect or kill.
Do Western Nations Care about Yemeni Lives or Saudi Blood Money?
The time for review and mild statements of condemnation is over.
Netanyahu Slips and Reveals the Real Reason He Opposes the Iran Deal
The cat is out of the bag after Netanyahu let it slip on CNN's State of the Union of Sunday his reasons for opposing the Iran deal. Basically, he wants to keep Iran down—leaving it poor and undeveloped through “crippling” sanctions.
Conservation innovations: How sustained resistance is saving one of the Earth’s most critical rainforests...
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.