Voices for Change

"Maybe, just maybe, before I die I will admit the real truth: the Devil made me do it.”

Powell’s memo argued that the American economic system was “under broad attack” from consumer, labor, and environmental groups.

We just have to hope Americans have learned about the greed and deception of that arena full of super-rich.

Thank You, Donald Trump

Only the greatest criminal con artist would dream of leaning on law and order when all else fails.

We are in the midst of an existential political crisis, one that too many Americans blithely shrug off because they do not—or cannot—believe the kind of power seizures, purges, and police-state repression that has happened in many other countries can ever happen here.

The thousands of Michigan children who were knowingly poisoned were victims of an American moral malaise: Our nation has bred generations of bureaucrats who are blind to values other than self-advancement and profit.

“It’s all about building power. That has to be our goal: to build power, to take office, and to create a movement that can’t be ignored.”

As the latest heat records indicate, we are, for the first time, on a planet in decline. And if that isn’t uncharted territory, what is?

This article is adapted from the new edition of Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War,” just published as a free e-book.