Thursday, March 28, 2024

Why President Hillary Clinton Will Need Bernie’s “Political Revolution” to Get Anything Done

The pragmatist in her must know that the only way her ideas will make it in real life is if the public is organized and mobilized behind them.

The New Slave Revolt

Prison strike leaders see through the political theater and illusions that the corporate elites employ to mask Americans’ surrender of freedom.

How Intellectual Property Rules Help the Rich and Hurt the Poor

While the future may actually be one of continually rising inequality, it is important to realize that technology is not the culprit.

Four years of Donald Trump could sink the planet

If Trump isn’t going to pare CO2 emissions significantly, then the US alone could cook the planet, even if China and others act more responsibly.
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Why Trump’s revised executive order is still a racist Muslim ban

It is shameful, and will cost America in science, medicine, engineering and entrepreneurship.

A Lost Opportunity for Change

We are living in times of great strain, and worldwide opportunity. Huge numbers of people throughout the world want change; disappointingly, the election result in the UK was a victory for the status quo.

Open Veins, Healing Wounds in Latin America

As the U.S. and Cuba had their first formal meeting in more than half a century, Eduardo Galeano, the great Uruguayan writer who did so much to explain the deeply unequal relations, recently died. Will the open wounds be healed in Latin America?

Making the Economy Work for the Many, Not the Few: #8 Raise the Estate...

Our democracy’s Founding Fathers did not want a privileged aristocracy. Yet that’s the direction we’re going in. The tax on inherited wealth is one of the major bulwarks against it. That tax should be increased and strengthened.

Signs of America’s demise, and one way to survive

Finding a compromise between capitalism and socialism.
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Dear Trump voter

This is not the change you were promised.