Voices for Change

The climate crisis is a form of oppression by a wealthy few.

Members of the sinking middle class in our pathologically unequal society may well find it convenient to blame people in lower economic classes, who are unlikely to fight back. It's a game for the people looking down on a troubled nation.

Experts in peace and conflict studies explain the scientific evidence that societies can choose peace, and that warfare is also a choice, not a necessity.

Farmers, scientists and consumers are fighting back, and global health agencies are responding to the threats.

Right now, Ukrainians are united in their resistance to Russia’s invasion, but we should not be surprised when the U.S. alliance with neo-Nazi proxy forces in Ukraine, including the infusion of billions of dollars in sophisticated weapons, results in similarly violent and destructive blowback.

It's beginning to seem like history is simultaneously repeating itself as both tragedy and farce.

It's not a game for the 200 million struggling Americans who depend on tax revenue for education and housing and health care. 

Joe Biden may not become one of America’s greatest presidents, but he will go down in history as having saved this country from experiencing a monumental disaster, a second term for Trump.

The only way out of this crisis of governance is for us – the vast majority of Americans who deserve and know better – to take charge.

There is no subject too trivial, no norm too unobtrusive, no threshold of decorum Trump won’t trash to make hay for his “culture war” presidency.