What the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know about China
Deliberate lies about China to drum up justification for more U.S. war spending needs to be urgently addressed.
What a wonderful world
A system produces leaders who reflect the dominant values of its components.
Why the right really hates the Postal Service
It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism.
Panama Papers Expose Another Way Our Trade Agreements Fail Us
Harmonizing international tax law and prohibiting anonymous shell corporations should be at the center of our trade negotiations.
How a worker cooperative is mitigating the stray animal crisis in Texas
Houston’s Pet Care Co-op empowers humans and helps animals survive.
India and the future of the planet
India’s economic and energy production model is not a threat to the world, but it is a threat to India itself, particularly its most marginalized people.
Review of “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the...
How rational we humans really are, well, that’s an open question. But nowhere is such faith in education, dialogue, and people more needed than Israel/Palestine.
Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay?
One more reason Wall Street bankers privately wink and grin at these seemingly huge punishments is that even paying the full $5 billion would only be relatively painful.
Why a Single-Payer Healthcare System is Inevitable
If this weren’t enough to convince rational people to do what most other advanced nations have done – create a single-payer system that insures everyone, funded by taxpayers – consider that America’s giant health insurers are now busily consolidating into ever-larger behemoths.
Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump: The three great threats to world peace and stability; all...
With the election on the horizon, America stands at a crossroads that will determine its fate going into the future.









