Tag: capitalism

How language can help in the fight against authoritarianism.

Capitalism as an economic system has been hoisted to a status none dare criticize as though it were a religion.

We either struggle and strive, by and any and all means, to end the system -- or it will end us.

What if the anti-establishment wings of both parties came together in a pro-democracy coalition to get big money out of politics? 

The message of the consumer society, pumped out over flat screen televisions, computers and smartphones, to those trapped at the bottom of society is loud and unrelenting: You are a failure.

America at its best is a community of people working together without visions of dollar signs in their eyes.

While the National Hurricane Center is now calling Harvey the biggest rainstorm on record, scientists have been predicting for years that climate change would result in massive storms like Harvey.

To stave off disaster, we must transform the economic system driving climate change.

As more and more money is acquired by those at the top, the more consumer purchasing power suffers and, with it, the economy.

Being patriotic Americans means understanding world affairs through a prism of objectivity, rejecting militaristic propaganda from the Establishment, and demanding sensible policies from our leaders that promote peace and security for the U.S. and the world.