Tag: U.S. Economy

There will be important opportunities in the next few years to advance the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice as well as peace.

Instead, the fracking industry has helped set new records for U.S. oil production while continuing to lose huge amounts of money – and that was before the recent crash in oil prices.

The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.

It’s time to demand that the economic system work for all of us.

The only way to address this ultimate threat is through the sort of international cooperation that the anti-globalists fear the most, a linking of arms across the rising seas to defeat a malign global force and the powerful elite that maintains it.

The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme.

The middle class and poor pay a larger percentage of their incomes on these tariffs than do the rich.

We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.

No matter how deeply flawed such geopolitical visions may ultimately prove to be, their brief moments as official policy have regularly shaped the destiny of nations and of empires in unpredictable, unplanned, and often dangerous ways.

The following facts should have been reported by the mainstream media, but unfortunately most of that media is controlled by the very people who have reason to hide the facts.