Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.
Forget the gaudy Biden vs. Trump soap opera. What counts nationally: The DC party...
Not voting or voting third party in a razor-close purple state (as in 2016) empowers a dictatorial narcissist.
The federal government shouldn’t be trying to salvage our broken food system—we need a...
Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals.
How Goldman Sachs Profited from the Greek Debt Crisis
The recent crisis in Greece offers yet another illustration of Wall Street’s powers of persuasion and predation as Goldman Sachs has profited from Greece’s debt. This is now an issue of morality, don't you think?
Odysseus – how the world’s master of contrivance dresses down today’s creepy, lying losers
Homer shows what civilization is all about, beginning with the distinction between predatory mendacity vs. mutually-supportive, truth-based partnerships.
Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels global health threats
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
Natural Asset Companies and the plan to financialize the commons
"Are we fighting to save ourselves and our living planet or are we fighting to maintain business as usual?”
Biden must inspect America’s embrittled reactors
Biden must act to prevent what would constitute nuclear suicide in the United States.
Biden’s Summit for Democracy, a good idea hurt by compromise and geopolitics
It’s progress that needs to be defended.
What’s behind inflation? Greedy corporate executives
Hocus Pocus—this is how the rich get richer and inequality “happens.”