When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.
Forty years ago there was deep concern that the population was breaking free of apathy and obedience. Since then, many measures have been taken to restore discipline.
Bill Moyers talks to President Reagan's former budget director and to Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times about the way Wall Street runs Washington.
blank blank, Campaign for America's Future. January 16, 2012.
This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr, but we will hear very little about why he is as relevant today as ever.
Gar Alperovitz, Dollars and Sense. January 3, 2012.
Thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.
Deniers have concluded that fighting climate change can only happen by reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.
In a speech to Occupy Boston, the linguist and icon hailed the "unprecedented" first weeks of OWS. He cautioned protesters to build and educate first, strike later.
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com. October 19, 2011.
An open letter to Mohammed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation set off the Tunisian revolution, about the beautiful movements that have sprung up in the wake of his death.
Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch.com. September 25, 2011.
The new American century was swiftly throttled in three stages: 9/11 (blowback); invasion of Iraq (preemptive war); and 2008 Wall Street meltdown (casino capitalism).
When you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance.
