Voices for Change

Back in the 1980s, eagle-eyed economists began reporting out a pair of phenomena you actually didn’t need eagle eyes to see: America’s...

Everyone running for president is a politician. Trump is the most odious breed.

The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers, and the losers are the people of Ukraine, working and poor people everywhere, but especially in the Global South, and our fading hopes of halting the climate crisis.

As this bailout should make clear is that, contrary to what the media tell us, conservatives love big government.

The super-rich could prolong life for all of us, including themselves, if they recognized the need to support a strong society.

Hundreds of international activists wait to set sail from Istanbul to Gaza with 5,500 tons of desperately needed humanitarian aid.

Look at all the marvels we learned this past year. Our revered democracy, battered by money and bludgeoned by bad faith, can still distinguish an utter phony, skilled mainly as con artist, from adult candidates capable of governance. All but Trump offer the minimum for any viable president: deflecting monumental disruption and chaos.

The mainstream media likewise cannot grasp the relationship of mass anger to capitalism.

If we really want to lead we have to go with the energy of the future, not the energy of the past.

In our competitive, loud world, silence is all too often regarded negatively and seen as something uncomfortable to be avoided, but can it be that silence is the key to harmony within our sociopolitical environment?